Indonesian National Armed Forces Mil Mi-17 helicopter crash
Tni Mil Mi-17 · Accident
From Tarakan, North Kalimantan to Malinau, North Kalimantan
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
- 13 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- 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
- 6
- 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
Mil Mi-17
- Aircraft type
- Mil MI-17
- Category
- Helicopter · 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
- Unknown
- Operator
- Tni
- Onboard fatalities
- 13
- Route
- From Tarakan, North KalimantanTo Malinau, North Kalimantan
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The Indonesian National Armed Forces Mil Mi-17 helicopter crash was a Mil Mi-17 helicopter flight that departed from Tarakan in North Kalimantan for Malinau in North Kalimantan. The helicopter was flying to deliver building materials and transport workers for the construction of a border post in Malinau.
The helicopter crash killed 13 people and injured 6 others. The crash itself was caused by the helicopter losing power, which made the helicopter sway and fall into a ravine and catch fire as it was about to land at the helipad of Pos Bulan, Long Jelet Village, Pujungan District, Malinau Regency, North Kalimantan.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Indonesian Wikipedia article “Kecelakaan Helikopter TNI Mil Mi-17” (revision 14856330, 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
Indonesian Wikipedia article: Kecelakaan Helikopter TNI Mil Mi-17
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 14856330 · 2019-03-02 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q19752163
- 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
- id Wikipedia article "Kecelakaan Helikopter TNI Mil Mi-17" (page 1396423, revision 14856330), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- none
- 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 is an armed force according to Wikidata
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Indonesian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.