What the records say
- When
- 4 Mar 2021
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 38.50° N, 42.28° E
- Description
- helicopter crash
- Deaths
- 11
- Injured
- 2
2021 Turkish Air Force Eurocopter AS532 Cougar crash
Helicopter crash in Turkey
The 2021 Turkish Air Force Eurocopter AS532 Cougar crash occurred on 4 March 2021, when a Turkish Air Force (TAF) Eurocopter AS532 Cougar, en route to Tatvan District in Bitlis, Turkey, crashed in Bitlis Province. Eleven Turkish servicemen on board were killed in the crash, while two other servicemen survived the crash.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A Eurocopter AS532 Cougar crashes on its way from Bingöl to Tatvan”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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