Helicopter accident near Strumica (2014)
Mi 17-V 5 · Accident
From an unrecorded airport to Skopje-Kavadarci-Valandovo-Strumica-Berovo-Delčevo
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
- 4 · 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
Mi 17-V 5
Approximate · Estimated position: Strumica, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The helicopter accident near Strumica occurred on 10 July 2014 at around 22.00 hours, when a helicopter of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a crew of four people struck a transmitter of Macedonian Radio Television and crashed to the ground.
According to initial information, the helicopter was returning from a border police shift change. Eyewitnesses told the media that the helicopter had been circling in the air for more than five minutes without lights, and then struck a transmitter over 100 metres tall. During the flight the pilots did not report any technical problem with the aircraft, which was one of the newer ones in the MVR, manufactured in 2008. According to the former head of flight safety in the military air force, Nebojša Antić, the pilots most likely tried to land the police helicopter on the meadow near Strumica. The helicopter first struck the cables that held the antenna mast. During the investigation the three installed black boxes were found.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Macedonian Wikipedia article “Хеликоптерска несреќа кај Струмица (2014)” (revision 5079188, 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
Macedonian Wikipedia article: Хеликоптерска несреќа кај Струмица (2014)
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 5079188 · 2023-10-03 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q20568829
- 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
- mk Wikipedia article "Хеликоптерска несреќа кај Струмица (2014)" (page 1110591, revision 5079188), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia article: the date in its opening sentence (the infobox gives none to the day)
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): The helicopter belonged to the Macedonian Ministry of Internal Affairs and was returning from a border police shift change: a police, i.e. government, flight. The article: "a helicopter of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a crew of four people"
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Macedonian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.