Han River film-shoot helicopter crash
SK ecoplant Sikorsky S-76 · Pilot error
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
- 1
- 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
- 1
- 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
- Unknown
Sikorsky S-76
- Aircraft type
- Sikorsky S-76
- 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
- HL106
- Operator
- SK ecoplant
- Onboard fatalities
- 7
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
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 Han River film-shoot helicopter crash was an accident on 14 June 1993 in which a Sikorsky S-76 helicopter crashed into the Han River during filming of a movie, causing 7 deaths.
At around 4 pm, while filming the shipboard wedding scene, the first scene of the movie “Woman on Top of Man”, the helicopter carrying film production staff, lead actor Byun Young-hoon, the KBS “Entertainment Weekly” reporting team and others crashed into the Han River while lowering its altitude for close-up filming. Rescue efforts were belatedly carried out after the accident; except for KBS producer Kim Il-hwan, who escaped from the helicopter by breaking a window, 5 people including the helicopter captain, a Mr. Choi, were already dead at the time of rescue, and actor Byun Young-hoon and the film company's head, a Mr. Lee, died while being treated in hospital.
It was confirmed that this accident occurred due to the absence of a co-pilot and more people than the permitted capacity boarding the helicopter.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Korean Wikipedia article “한강 영화 촬영 헬리콥터 추락 사고” (revision 39858487, 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: 한강 영화 촬영 헬리콥터 추락 사고
- Article
- 한강 영화 촬영 헬리콥터 추락 사고
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 39858487 · 2025-05-21 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q16192084
- 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 "한강 영화 촬영 헬리콥터 추락 사고" (page 6112, revision 39858487), 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
- not stated in the Wikipedia article's infobox or opening paragraph
- 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.