2021 Be-200 crash
Russian Navy Beriev Be-200 · Collision with a mountain; under investigation
From Adana Şakirpaşa Airport, Adana, Turkey to Adana Şakirpaşa Airport, Adana, Turkey
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 8 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Military
Beriev Be-200
- Aircraft type
- Beriev BE-200
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- RF-88450
- Operator
- Russian Navy
- Onboard fatalities
- 8
- Route
- From Adana Şakirpaşa Airport, Adana, TurkeyTo Adana Şakirpaşa Airport, Adana, Turkey
Approximate · Estimated position: Kahramanmaraş, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The 2021 Be-200 crash was an air disaster that occurred on Saturday 14 August 2021 when a Beriev Be-200 type amphibious aircraft from the Russian manufacturer Beriev crashed into a mountain near the Turkish city of Kahramanmaraş, killing all 8 crew members on board. The aircraft was engaged in extinguishing the forest fires ravaging that country.
The aircraft arrived in Turkey on 8 July together with two others, which were leased by the General Directorate of Forestry from the Russian navy to fight the current forest fires in Turkey.
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Investigation and cause
Investigation
The Russian defence ministry stated that the aircraft crashed on the landing approach. The Russian Ministry reported that it sent a commission to the crash site to investigate the cause of the accident. Several videos of the aircraft's collision are circulating on the internet. In fact, one video recorded the moment when the aircraft crashes into the mountain.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente del Be-200 de 2021” (revision 169304355, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Spanish Wikipedia article: Accidente del Be-200 de 2021
- Article
- Accidente del Be-200 de 2021
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 169304355 · 2025-09-02 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q108100549
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- es Wikipedia article "Accidente del Be-200 de 2021" (page 9996347, revision 169304355), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Spanish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.