2013 Emerald Pacific Airlines BK-117 crash
Sunrise Airlines BK-117 · The 2013 Emerald Pacific Airlines BK-117 crash occurred on 16 October 2013
From Songshan Airport, Taipei, Republic of China to Valley 100 metres north of the Yushan Weather Station, Xinyi Township, Nantou County, Taiwan, Republic of China
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
- 3 · 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
- Airline
BK-117
- 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
- B-77009
- Operator
- Sunrise Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 3
- Route
- From Songshan Airport, Taipei, Republic of ChinaTo Valley 100 metres north of the Yushan Weather Station, Xinyi Township, Nantou County, Taiwan, Republic of China
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 2013 Emerald Pacific Airlines BK-117 crash occurred on 16 October 2013. An Emerald Pacific Airlines BK-117, number B-77009, took off from Taipei Songshan Airport at 6:38 am and was originally scheduled to return at 8:05, but it crashed during the flight, killing the pilot and co-pilot on board and an employee of the Yushan Weather Station, three people. This flight-safety accident attracted the attention of Taiwanese society.
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Sources
Chinese Wikipedia article: 2013年中興航空BK-117空難
- Article
- 2013年中興航空BK-117空難
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 90036607 · 2025-11-16 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q15913605
- 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
- zh Wikipedia article "2013年中興航空BK-117空難" (page 3682002, revision 90036607), 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
- operator named as an airline in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Chinese Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.