2016 Sikorsky S-70 helicopter crash
Turkish Air Force Sikorsky S-70 · Crash
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
- Unknown
- 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
Sikorsky S-70
- Aircraft type
- Sikorsky S-70
- 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
- Turkish Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- 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 2016 Sikorsky S-70 helicopter crash is the incident on 5 July 2016 in which a Sikorsky S-70 type combat helicopter belonging to the Turkish Air Force, carrying Gendarmerie Regional Commander Brigadier General Mustafa Doğru and the soldiers and soldiers' family members accompanying him, crashed on the Tohumluk Plateau in the countryside of the Alucra district of Giresun. A helicopter crash that occurred after the crash in which 2 pilots lost their lives as a result of the downing of a Bell AH-1 Cobra helicopter sent to the region on 13 May 2016 to support the clashes that broke out after the attack carried out by PKK militants on the base area in the Çukurca district of Hakkâri.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Turkish Wikipedia article “2016 Sikorsky S-70 helikopter kazası” (revision 35912261, 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
Turkish Wikipedia article: 2016 Sikorsky S-70 helikopter kazası
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 35912261 · 2025-08-24 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q25478418
- 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
- tr Wikipedia article "2016 Sikorsky S-70 helikopter kazası" (page 2126354, revision 35912261), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Turkish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.