Government Flying Service B-HRX crash
Eurocopter EC155B1 · Air disaster
From Hong Kong International Airport (HKG) to Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island Central Helipad
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
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- 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
- 0
- 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
Eurocopter EC155B1
- Aircraft type
- Eurocopter EC155
- 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-HRX
- Operator
- Government Flying Service
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From Hong Kong International Airport (HKG)To Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island Central Helipad
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The B-HRX crash was the first crash causing the death of personnel since the Hong Kong Government Flying Service was established in 1993. The accident occurred on the night of 26 August 2003, when a Government Flying Service EC155B1 helicopter was carrying out a Type A casualty evacuation mission (Type A Casevac), but during the flight crashed on a hilltop near Pak Kung Au, Lantau Island, New Territories, killing both crew members. The Civil Aviation Department's investigation report stated that the helicopter's flight altitude was too low when the accident occurred, and classified the event as "controlled flight into terrain".
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “政府飛行服務隊B-HRX墜毀事故” (revision 94385936, 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
Chinese Wikipedia article: 政府飛行服務隊B-HRX墜毀事故
- Article
- 政府飛行服務隊B-HRX墜毀事故
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 94385936 · 2026-09-16 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q10846507
- 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 "政府飛行服務隊B-HRX墜毀事故" (page 486640, revision 94385936), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article 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
- operator is a government agency according to Wikidata
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
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.