2014 Siutghiol air crash
SMURD Romania SMURD helicopter · Pilot error or technical failure
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
- Unknown
SMURD helicopter
- Aircraft type
- Smurd HELICOPTER
- 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
- 348
- Operator
- SMURD Romania
- Onboard fatalities
- 4
- 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 SMURD helicopter accident on Lake Siutghiol was an aviation accident that occurred on 15 December 2014, in Constanța County, following the crash of an EC135 SMURD helicopter on a mission. All four crew members on board died in the accident.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Romanian Wikipedia article “Accidentul aviatic de la Siutghiol din 2014” (revision 17667283, 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
Romanian Wikipedia article: Accidentul aviatic de la Siutghiol din 2014
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 17667283 · 2026-04-22 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q25467082
- 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
- ro Wikipedia article "Accidentul aviatic de la Siutghiol din 2014" (page 1937878, revision 17667283), 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 Romanian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.