1974 Republic of China Army UH-1H helicopter crashes
Bell UH-1 Iroquois · Accident
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
- 4
- 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
Bell UH-1 Iroquois
- Aircraft type
- Bell UH-1
- 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
- 327及347
- Operator
- Republic of China Army
- Onboard fatalities
- 13
- 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 1974 Republic of China Army UH-1H helicopter crashes were an air disaster in the Republic of China that occurred on 27 December 1974. Two UH-1H helicopters belonging to the Republic of China Army, carrying then Commander-in-Chief of the Republic of China Army General (2nd grade) Yu Hao-chang and other generals of the Republic of China Armed Forces on their way to inspect the Changping exercise, crashed at two locations, Yangmei Township and Guanyin Township in Taoyuan County (now Yangmei District and Guanyin District, Taoyuan City), killing Lieutenant General Gou Yun-sen, commander of the Army's First Field Army, and others, and seriously injuring General (2nd grade) Yu Hao-chang and the Commander-in-Chief's aide-de-camp Captain Kao Hua-chu.
In 2011 the Army Command Headquarters of the Ministry of National Defense erected a memorial stele for this crash at "Longcheng Camp", the garrison of the Army Aviation 601st Brigade in Longtan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan; the inscription reads as follows:
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “1974年中華民國陸軍UH-1H直升機墜毀事故” (revision 92033193, 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: 1974年中華民國陸軍UH-1H直升機墜毀事故
- Article
- 1974年中華民國陸軍UH-1H直升機墜毀事故
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 92033193 · 2026-03-25 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q85871900
- 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 "1974年中華民國陸軍UH-1H直升機墜毀事故" (page 6864919, revision 92033193), 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 armed force or military unit 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.