US Marine Corps accidents
List of helicopter accidents by US Marine CorpsFilter:
Bell | 204 | 132 |
Bell | 209 AH-1 Cobra | 65 |
Bell | 212 | 64 |
Bell | UH-1Y Venom | 5 |
Bell | V-22 Osprey | 14 |
Boeing-Vertol | 107M H-46 Sea Knight | 293 |
Gyrodyne | DSN / QH-50 DASH | 3 |
Kaman | Seasprite | 3 |
Sikorsky | S-52 H-18 HO5S | 10 |
Sikorsky | S-55 H-19 | 44 |
Sikorsky | S-56 H-37 | 12 |
Sikorsky | S-58 H-34 | 245 |
Sikorsky | S-61 H-3 | 1 |
Sikorsky | S-65 H-53 | 79 |
Sikorsky | S-70 H-60 | 1 |
Sikorsky | S-80 H-53E | 30 |
Bell 212 Accidents
Year | Version | C/N | |
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1971 | UH-1N | 31407 | 158236 : w/o 25jul71 |
1972 | UH-1N | 31626 | 158285 : HMH-461 CJ-24 w/o 23sep72 |
1973 | UH-1N | 31632 | 158291 : HML-167. w/o 05dec73 |
1974 | UH-1N | 31659 | XC-GIC : PGR d/d 1974. w/o 22sep74. ex BuNo 158783 |
1975 | UH-1N | 31441 | 159565 : 7S. NAS LeMoore w/o 16jun75 |
1975 | UH-1N | 31652 | 158776 : HML-268 w/o 06jan75 |
1976 | UH-1N | 31635 | 158550 : HML-268. w/o 13feb76 |
1976 | UH-1N | 31683 | 159207 : HMM-262 ET. w/o 24jun76 |
1977 | UH-1N | 31444 | 159774 : USMC c/n not confirmed; w/o 25aug77 |
1977 | UH-1N | 31701 | 159691 : HML-367 VT. w/o 12jul77. c/n not confirmed |
1978 | UH-1N | 31620 | 158279 : Training flight at NAS Bermuda with pilot, Robert Ainsle, flight surgeon, AF Wells, and medical attendant, Ervin Rowley on board. One fatality Robert Ainsley. Weather contributed to crash |
1978 | UH-1N | 31743 | 160451 : USMC;
w/o 27mar78 HMH-463 /YH |
1979 | UH-1N | 31410 | 158239 : USN, VXE-6 /XD-16 w/o 21jan79 |
1979 | UH-1N | 31412 | 158241 : USN, VXE-6 /XE, w/o 17feb79 |
1979 | UH-1N | 31418 | 158247 : conv to HH-1N type;
Asg Guam SAR unit;
w/o 30jul79, sustained strike damage in a crash caused by a tail rotor yoke failure. The last time I saw it was at NAS Agana, Guam being used for crash crew training |
1979 | UH-1N | 31614 | 158273 : conv to HH-1N; US Navy, NAWS China Lake, w/o 10aug79 |
1980 | UH-1N | 31414 | 158243 : w/o 25feb80 |
1980 | UH-1N | 31633 | 158548 : w/o 24nov80. cockpit at Ferguson Airport (Pensacola, Florida) |
1981 | UH-1N | 31449 | 160831 : USMC; w/o 29sep81 on USS Inchon (LPH-12) |
1981 | UH-1N | 31655 | 158779 : w/o 28jan80 crashed and burned |
1981 | UH-1N | 31656 | 158780 : USS Guam (LPH-9) w/o 19jul81 |
1981 | UH-1N | 159703 : USMC; HML-367 /VT w/o 03feb81 | |
1982 | UH-1N | 31451 | 160833 : USMC; w/o 26sep82 on USS Guam (LPH-9) |
1982 | UH-1N | 31640 | 158555 : HML-767 . This helo was assigned to MARTD New Orleans, LA |
1982 | UH-1N | 31677 | 159201 : HMA-369 SM. w/o 20jul82 |
1982 | UH-1N | 31679 | 159203 : HMA-369 SM. w/o 19aug82 |
1985 | UH-1N | 31453 | 160835 : USMC; w/o 12aug85 on USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) |
1985 | UH-1N | 31455 | 160837 : I was there! |
1986 | UH-1N | 31408 | 158237 : USN, VXE-6 w/o 17jan86 |
1986 | UH-1N | 31438 | XC-GID : PGR d/d 1974. w/o 18nov86. ex BuNo 158769 |
1986 | UH-1N | 31709 | 159699 : USMC HMM-161 /YR w/o 10jul86 ( see 160621 ). c/n not confirmed |
1987 | UH-1N | 31426 | 158255 : Aircraft and crew of four were lost in the mountains of Ojai, CA in 1987 while on a training mission out of NAS Point Mugu. They were operating at The Bowl and crashed just below it |
1987 | UH-1N | 31739 | 160447 : USMC; HMLA-269 w/o 04oct87 |
1988 | UH-1N | 31697 | 159687 : HMLA-169 SN-107. w/o 25oct88. c/n not confirmed |
1989 | UH-1N | 31446 | 160828 : Mid-1978 picked up new from Bell by USS Okinawa (LPH-3) flight crew. Became ships helo nicknamed Oki 3 |
1989 | UH-1N | 31750 | 160458 : Hit power wires during night flight training near Camp De Canjurres, France. 5 fatalities |
1990 | UH-1N | 31728 | 160178 : 8 KIA. Crews were operating with night vision goggles. |
1990 | UH-1N | 31757 | 160622 : USMC; w/o 19oct90 as UV-?/HMLA-267 attached to HHM-164 off Oman collided with UH-1N 160178 operating from USS Okinawa (LPH-3) |
1990 | UH-1N | 31758 | 160623 : USMC; HMLA-367 w/o 27 out of Yuma, AZ on NVG training flight. Two of five crew members killed |
1991 | UH-1N | 31661 | XC-GIF : PGR d/d 1974. w/o 04jan91. ex BuNo 158785 |
1991 | UH-1N | 31675 | 159199 : w/o 22aug91 |
1991 | UH-1N | 31713 | 159776 : This crash was the result of a failure of the main driveshaft, killed all 4 on board. Shaft failed at 2500 feet AGL, induced a mast bump, sheared off mast, and also chopped off tailboom, feel into a newly planted soy field in Calipatria, California;
I spent a week there recovering the bodies and the wreckage. All of the dead had recently returned from the Persian Gulf and Desert Shield Desert Storm. HMLA-169 |
1992 | UH-1N | 31420 | 158249 : USN, VXE-6 /XD-17; w/o 13oct92 near Cape Royds Antarctica, 3 fatalities |
1992 | UH-1N | 31759 | 160624 : USMC; HMLA-369 /SM-412; w/o 03feb92 |
1994 | UH-1N | 31704 | 159694 : Crashed in Okinawa, pilot fatality |
1995 | UH-1N | 31702 | 159692 : HMM-161 YR-30. HMLA-267 w/o 19feb95 USS Essex (LHD-2). c/n not confirmed |
1996 | UH-1N | 31413 | 158242 : went down 1 m East Stumpy Meadows Lake, between Placerville and South Lake Tahoe |
1998 | UH-1N | 31439 | 158770 : conv to HH-1N; US Navy; SAR NAWS China Lake NWC, California as /018; w/o 18feb98 struck a wire and crashed at California Sequoia National Forest. 5 fatalities |
1998 | UH-1N | 31689 | 159682 : HMM-262 HMLA-367 ET-40. w/o 23jul98 USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3). c/n not confirmed |
1998 | UH-1N | 31733 | 160441 : USMC; YX-632/HMM-166 w/o 16sep98 |
2001 | UH-1N | 31732 | 160440 : USMC;
HMM-365(R) /YM-3 w/o 05dec01 |
2001 | vh-1n | 31641 | 158556 : USMC; VH-1N green top; conv to HH-1N; w/o 08 NAS Fallon |
2002 | UH-1N | 31705 | 159695 : HMM-166 YX. w/o 14feb02. c/n not confirmed |
2002 | UH-1N | 31707 | 159697 : USS Bonhomme Richard, 13th MEU, 6 souls on board no casualties; Lamu Kenya. Crew--BDA, Ass-Chaps, Bed Head, |
2002 | vh-1n | 31638 | 158553 : LCdr Jason Bayer and AD-2 Charles Chaco lost their lives when their U.S. Navy HH-1N Huey helicopter crashed into a crevice near the peak of Split Mountain, in the Sequoia National Forest, killing two crew members and injuring four. |
2003 | UH-1N | 31415 | 158244 : USMC, conv to HH-1N; w/o 01may03 at NAS Fallon during autorotation training; soc 30oct03 |
2003 | UH-1N | 31686 | 159680 : HMLA-367 w/o 22oct03 at Twentynine Palms California |
2003 | UH-1N | 31736 | 160444 : w/o 23mar03 asg HMLA-269 hard landing in sandstorm, Iraq |
2003 | UH-1N | 31755 | 160620 : USMC; HMLA-169 w/o 30mar03 |
2004 | UH-1N | 31724 | 160174 : HMM-166 YX. w/o 22jan04 |
2004 | UH-1N | 31731 | 160439 : w/o 05aug04 |
2007 | UH-1N | 31617 | 158276 : conv to HH-1N. w/o 16aug07 Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona 4 fatalities |
2007 | UH-1N | 31621 | 158280 : USMC in 1994 /TV-14 HMLA-167 ; 1999 deployed aboard USS Nassau LHA-4. /ES-40 HMLA-167 ; 2000 /TV-14 HMLA-167 ; HMH-264 w/o 05mar07 hard landing at Lamu Manda, Kenya during Exercise Edged Mallet, no fatalities |
2008 | UH-1N | 31434 | 100 : Panama d/d 1976;
w/o 29may08 crashed in downtown Panama City 11 fatalities. ex USMC 158765 |
64 C/N found.