Yongmunsan helicopter crash
204th Aviation Battalion Bell UH-1 Iroquois · Deteriorating weather
From Armed Forces Cheoljeong Hospital to 204th Aviation Battalion
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
- Military
Bell UH-1 Iroquois
- Aircraft type
- Bell UH-1
- 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
- 204th Aviation Battalion
- Onboard fatalities
- 7
- Route
- From Armed Forces Cheoljeong HospitalTo 204th Aviation Battalion
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 Yongmunsan helicopter crash was an accident at 1:40 am on 20 February 2008 in which a UH-1H helicopter belonging to the Army's 204th Aviation Battalion crashed, killing 7 people.
The military authorities concluded that deteriorating weather was the cause of the crash.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Korean Wikipedia article “용문산 헬리콥터 추락 사고” (revision 39342160, 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: 용문산 헬리콥터 추락 사고
- Article
- 용문산 헬리콥터 추락 사고
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 39342160 · 2025-04-19 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q17487397
- 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 "용문산 헬리콥터 추락 사고" (page 1125281, revision 39342160), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): An army aviation battalion's UH-1H: a military flight. The article: "a UH-1H helicopter belonging to the Army's 204th Aviation Battalion crashed, killing 7 people"
- 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.