2025 Suzhou Chengyi General Aviation helicopter crash
Chengyi Aviation R44Ⅱ helicopter · Helicopter fell during a forced landing; under investigation
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
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 1
- Occupants
- 1
- 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
- 4
- 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
- Unknown
R44Ⅱ helicopter
- Aircraft type
- R44ⅱ HELICOPTER
- 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-7541
- Operator
- Chengyi Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Approximate · Estimated position: Suzhou, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
At about 17 o'clock Beijing time on 2 May 2025, an R44Ⅱ helicopter operated by "Suzhou Chengyi General Aviation Co., Ltd." fell from 10 metres during a forced landing in the "Aoshiting Fanhua" scenic area at Taihu, Wuzhong District, Suzhou, injuring 4 and killing 1.
Accident
At about 17 o'clock Beijing time on 2 May 2025, an R44Ⅱ helicopter fell during a forced landing in the "Aoshiting Fanhua" scenic area at Taihu, Wuzhong District, Suzhou. According to netizens, before the accident this helicopter had previously been working intensively. In the end 4 were injured and 1 killed. According to reports, the dead man was a middle-aged man who had been out enjoying himself with his wife and two daughters. The park was then closed on an emergency basis.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Chinese Wikipedia article “2025年苏州诚翼通用航空直升机坠毁事故” (revision 93390150, 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: 2025年苏州诚翼通用航空直升机坠毁事故
- Article
- 2025年苏州诚翼通用航空直升机坠毁事故
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 93390150 · 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 "2025年苏州诚翼通用航空直升机坠毁事故" (page 9125003, revision 93390150), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata 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
- not stated in the Wikipedia article's infobox or opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: total_fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: ground fatalities
- 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.