2018 Yunnan Fengxiang General Aviation helicopter crash
Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil · Operational error caused by weather
From Kunming First People's Hospital (Ganmei Hospital), China to Anning People's Hospital, 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
- 3
- 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
- Charter & commuter
Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil
- Aircraft type
- Eurocopter AS350
- 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-7460
- Onboard fatalities
- 3
- Route
- From Kunming First People's Hospital (Ganmei Hospital), ChinaTo Anning People's Hospital, China
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The 2018 Yunnan Fengxiang General Aviation helicopter crash, also known as the Kunming "6·16" helicopter mountain crash or the "6·16" Anning aircraft mountain crash, refers to a helicopter crash that occurred on 16 June 2016 during a medical rescue mission from Kunming First People's Hospital (Ganmei Hospital) to Anning People's Hospital. An AS350B3 Squirrel helicopter numbered B-7460, operated by Yunnan Fengxiang General Aviation Co., Ltd., crashed at Qingshan Pass near Fushan Community, Biji Subdistrict, Xishan District, Kunming, Yunnan Province, and all 3 crew members were killed, comprising two pilots and one accompanying mechanic.
Course of the accident
At 8:17 on 16 June 2018, Fengxiang General Aviation's AS350B3 helicopter B-7460 took off from Kunming First People's Hospital (Ganmei Hospital), planning to fly via Kunming's Haigeng Park to Anning People's Hospital to transport a heart attack patient. At 8:28 the helicopter's flight track stopped; the geographical position at the last recorded moment was approximately near Qingshan Pass near Fushan Community, Biji Subdistrict, Xishan District, Kunming. At 8:43 flight operations staff of Yunnan Fengxiang General Aviation Co., Ltd. reported the stopping of the flight track to company management, and the company began trying to contact the crew through various channels, without success. At 9:53 the CAAC Yunnan Safety Supervision Administration received information that contact with the helicopter had been lost, and immediately worked with the local people's government and the company to carry out emergency response. At 13:30 a search team found the helicopter wreckage near Qingshan Pass; all 3 crew members had been killed.
Accident investigation
In August 2018 the CAAC Yunnan Safety Supervision Administration released its accident investigation report, which determined that the accident constituted a relatively major work safety accident, and that the most probable cause was improper crew decision-making, inadvertently entering instrument meteorological conditions during visual flight and striking a mountain as a result.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “2018年云南凤翔通用航空公司直升机坠毁事故” (revision 93404736, 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: 2018年云南凤翔通用航空公司直升机坠毁事故
- Article
- 2018年云南凤翔通用航空公司直升机坠毁事故
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 93404736 · 2026-07-10 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- 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 "2018年云南凤翔通用航空公司直升机坠毁事故" (page 7913480, revision 93404736), 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): A helicopter company flying a medical rescue mission between hospitals to transport a patient: an air ambulance service for hire. The article: "operated by Yunnan Fengxiang General Aviation Co., Ltd., crashed"
- 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.