2017 Turkish Air Force Eurocopter Cougar crash
Eurocopter Cougar · 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
- 13 · 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
- Military
Eurocopter Cougar
- Aircraft type
- Eurocopter COUGAR
- 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
- 13
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article's coordinates are more than 250 km from Şenoba, the place its infobox names.
From the Wikipedia article
The 2017 Uludere Eurocopter Cougar Crash is a helicopter crash that took place on 31 May 2017 in Şenoba, Uludere, Şırnak. A military helicopter of the Eurocopter Cougar type belonging to the Turkish Air Force struck high-voltage lines shortly after taking off and crashed in the Şenoba countryside; 13 military personnel on the helicopter were martyred, namely Major General Aydoğan Aydın together with Colonel Oğuzhan Küçükdemirkol, Colonel Gökhan Peker, Lieutenant Colonel Songül Yakut, Major Koray Onay, Captain İlker Acar, Captain Nuri Şener, Master Sergeant Mehmet Erdoğan, Specialist Sergeant Zeki Koç, Pilot Captain Serhat Sığınak, Pilot First Lieutenant Abdülmüttalip Kesikbaş, Master Sergeant Fevzi Kıral, and Specialist Sergeant Hakan İncekal. After the crash, the then Chief of the General Staff General Hulusi Akar, the then Minister of National Defence Fikri Işık, the then Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek and the then Minister of the Interior Süleyman Soylu went to the region to carry out inspections.
HPG, the armed wing of the PKK, asserted that fire had been opened on the helicopter in question by its own members, and claimed that the helicopter crashed while trying to get away.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Turkish Wikipedia article “2017 Türk Hava Kuvvetleri Eurocopter Cougar kazası” (revision 37131500, 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: 2017 Türk Hava Kuvvetleri Eurocopter Cougar kazası
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 37131500 · 2026-05-07 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q30157526
- 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 "2017 Türk Hava Kuvvetleri Eurocopter Cougar kazası" (page 2242762, revision 37131500), 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
- Wikipedia article coordinates and infobox site disagree
- 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
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: total_fatalities
- 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.