Jirisan fire service helicopter crash
South Gyeongsang Province Air Rescue and Emergency Unit MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 · Deteriorating weather
From Changwon, South Gyeongsang to an unrecorded destination
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
- 7 · 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
- Unknown
- 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
- Government
MBB/Kawasaki BK 117
- Aircraft type
- Mbb/kawasaki BK-117
- 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
- 없음.
- Onboard fatalities
- 7
- Route
- From Changwon, South GyeongsangTo not recorded
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The Jirisan fire service helicopter crash was an accident on 9 August 1996 in which an MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 belonging to the South Gyeongsang Province Air Rescue and Emergency Unit, which was on its way after rescuing a hiker in distress on Jirisan, crashed, killing 7 people. It had originally been dispatched to extinguish a fire that broke out on Geumosan in Hadong County, South Gyeongsang Province, and at around 16:15 it was requested by the Korea National Park Service to rescue a fall patient on Jirisan. 2 firefighters, 3 professionals and 2 civilians were killed in this accident.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Korean Wikipedia article “지리산 소방 헬리콥터 추락 사고” (revision 39340950, 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
Korean Wikipedia article: 지리산 소방 헬리콥터 추락 사고
- Article
- 지리산 소방 헬리콥터 추락 사고
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 39340950 · 2025-04-19 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q17401448
- 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
- ko Wikipedia article "지리산 소방 헬리콥터 추락 사고" (page 1120317, revision 39340950), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- Wikipedia article 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
- government agency named in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Korean Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.