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Gageodo coast guard helicopter crash

13 Mar 2015 · Sea near Gageodo port, Sinan County, South Jeolla Province

West Sea Regional Maritime Safety and Security Headquarters Eurocopter AS565 Panther · Navigation error

From Mokpo Airport to Mokpo Hankook Hospital

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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
3 · 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

Eurocopter AS565 Panther

Aircraft type
Eurocopter AS565
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
B-511
Onboard fatalities
3
Route
From Mokpo AirportTo Mokpo Hankook Hospital

Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.

From the Wikipedia article

The Gageodo coast guard helicopter crash was an accident on 13 March 2015 in which one AS565 (B-511) crashed while landing on the helipad installed on the breakwater of Gageodo port on Gageodo, Sinan County, South Jeolla Province.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Korean Wikipedia article “가거도 해양경찰헬기 추락 사고” (revision 41192049, 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: 가거도 해양경찰헬기 추락 사고
Article
가거도 해양경찰헬기 추락 사고
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
41192049 · 2026-01-13 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q19913490
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 "가거도 해양경찰헬기 추락 사고" (page 1290817, revision 41192049), 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.