Romania_Helo

Date A’cft Serial Unit/Base Crashed Crew

4th July 1963 Mil Mi-4 serial 5 99 Transport Regiment
Otopeni

Crash landed in Fagaras Mountains, Podragu valley due to a strong downdraft while surveying the route for the future "Transfagarasan" road. The helicopter was only a few months old and just partly damaged, so it was airlifted by a Soviet Mi-6 (Cherson unit) to Victoria railway station, from where it was sent to the USSR and repaired.



pilot Major Vasile Iurascu	co-pilot Major Constantin Stefanescu (civil aviation)	flight mechanic	Aristide Stavros road engineer
all escaped with minor injuries

1970’s

Sud Aviation SA.318 C Alouette II

74
c/n 2074

Bucharest

escaped unhurt

1976

Mil Mi-8T

712
c/n 10712
YR-EVB

before 1989 SA 330L Puma 01 Otopeni Clipped a tree from the artillery parking area at Otopeni while attempting to land in fog on the apron in front of the hangars – instead of landing on the lighted runway. Pilot error.

1988

IAR-330L Puma

58^th Helicopter Regiment Sibiu

Two tail rotor blades were mounted inverted on maintenance. After take-off, while transitioning to forward flight, it crashed from several meters and caught fire

escaped unhurt

22/23 December 1989 IAR-330 L 61^st Helicopter Regiment Boteni Lost to friendly fire: shot down by own air defences just above the airbase, while taking off to carry ammo to the paratroopers in Bucharest. Crew managed to crash land and escape before the helicopter blew up


Capt. Emil Zamfir pilot	?? copilot	?? flight engineer
all escaped unhurt

23 December 1989

20.00

IAR-330L Puma

58^th Helicopter Regiment Sibiu

Crashed on a hill near Alba-Iulia, in Alba county, after being shot at with a 7.62 mm machine gun


Maj. Tudor Nicolae	Cpt. Motica Victor	Galaftion Stefan	Gen. Constantin Vasile Nuta	Gen. Velicu Mihalea

24 December 1989

18.35

IAR-330L Puma

59^th Helicopter Regiment Tuzla

Shot down (by a MiG-21 from the 86^th Regiment based at Fetesti?); crashed between villages of Ion Corvin and Adamclisi in Constanta county


Lt.Col. Eftimie Serghei	Cpt. Enache Grigore Mihai	Slt. Deleanu Gheorghe	Slt. Petrea Stefan

Nov-Dec. 1993 Mi-8T 10 c/n 1026 94^th Helicopter Group Alexeni Crashed due to icing on the way between Boboc and Alexeni, near Florica forest

crew			passengers -military personnel

pilot Balescu unit commander at Alexeni	copilot	flight engineer	?? died	?? died
all onboard were killed

6th January 1994

IAR-330L Puma

76
c/n 127

59^th Helicopter Regiment Tuzla

Crashed shortly after take-off on an emergency medical flight to Bucharest – probable cause is icing.

6 dead (pilot, co-pilot, nurse, patient, two relatives)


Majo Gatan Marcel pilot killred	Major Donosa Stroe co-pilot killed	patient killed	nurse killed	patient's relative 1 killed	patient's relative 2 killed	flight mechanic survived
Six onboard were killed, with one survivor

20th September 1994 IAR-330L Puma 58^th Helicopter Regiment Sibiu Hydraulic pumps failure Crew suffered burns, but survived

1st September 1995

14.00

Mil Mi-17

109
c/n 107M05

Police unit Baneasa

Crashed near Mogosesti, in Iasi county 19 minutes after take-off from Iasi – hit a hillside while flying in fog


Col. Aurel Florea -pilot	Lt-Col. Alexandru Vasile – copilot	Lt. Maistru Militar Silviu Paraschiv	Gen-Maj. Ion Eugen Sandu	Gen-Maj. Ion Bunoaica	Col. Mihai Alexe

9th May 1996 IAR-330L Puma 04 58^th Helicopter Group Sibiu Damaged in a hangar fire at Sibiu

9th May 1996 IAR-330L Puma 12 58^th Helicopter Group Sibiu Damaged in a hangar fire at Sibiu

9th May 1996 IAR-330L Puma 19 58^th Helicopter Group Sibiu Damaged in a hangar fire at Sibiu

9th May 1996 Damaged in a hangar fire at Sibiu

IAR-330L Puma 84 58^th Helicopter Group Sibiu

9th May 1996 IAR-330L Puma 88 58^th Helicopter Group Sibiu Damaged in a hangar fire at Sibiu

1st July 1999

IAR-316B
Alouette III

60^th Helicopter Group Tecuci

Crashed at Podu Turcului, near Sascut, in Bacau county due to very strong local air turbulence, probably coupled with wrong recovery maneuvers.

Crew of 3 survived

16 August 2001

IAR-330 Puma SOCAT 95 61^st Helicopter Group Boteni Crashed from 50 meters while performing aerobatics just above the base


Pilot Cpt. Cdr. Mircea Ciuca injured to the spine, never flew again	Cpt. Cristian Badea injured	Maistru Militar Adrian Tudorache injured

7th April 2003

14.30

IAR-330L Puma

104

c/n

136

863rd Squadron based at Mihail Kogalniceanu

Crashed due to icing, near the village Castelu, in Constanta county


Cpt.Cdr. Ionel Tirca 863rd Squadron commander	Cpt. Ion Dinicu	Maistru Militar Tiberiu Serban

29th January 2004

09.30

IAR-316B
Alouette III

SApFA Boboc
206 Squadron

Crashed on a field 3 km away from the village Posta Calnau in Buzau county, due to bad weather – snow, during a meteo recon flight. It cought fire after the impact


Lt.Cdr. Danut Dumitrache	Lt.Cdr. Fanel-Viorel Belu	Maistru Militar principal Constantin Plaiasu

24th October 2006

13.10

IAR-330L Puma VIP

c/n

1322

90^th Air Transport Base

903 Squadron

Crashed into Golesti artificial lake, in Arges county due to pilot error – misjudgment of the altitude due to sun glare at very low level flight over the water


Cdr. Adrian Marinescu CO of the 90^th base	Lt. Adrian Cioarba	Maistru Militar Constantin Hurchi

7 November 2007

18.30

IAR-330 Puma SOCAT

59
c/n 88

90^th Air Transport Base
904/905 Squadron

rashed due to icing in the village Ungheni, in Arges county, on a night training sortie. It took off at 17.45 from Otopeni.

The helicopter cought fire after impact, only the electro-optical sensor and the extremity of the tail didn’t burn


Cdr. Nicolae Bucur	Lt. Ionel Craiu	Maistru militar cls. II Adrian Alexandru Ticea

19th June 2008 11.00

IAR-316B
Alouette III

125

SRI
(Serviciul Roman de Informatii = Romanian Intelligence Service)Delta Squadron
Otopeni

Crashed near Gradistea village, Giurgiu county after engine flame-out during hover from 10-15 metres, during an exercise. It caught fire on impact and was destroyed, except for the tail boom.

Pilot, co-pilot and a member of the anti-terrorist brigade survived, injured

Thursday 5th July 2012
shortly after 12.00 hours

IAR-316B Alouette III

SApFA Boboc

206 Squadron

Crashed 5 km away from the base

Crew of 3 and a student on board were killed


Căpitan-comandorul Mitică Docuz	Maistrul militar cls. I Cătălin Topoliceanu	Maistrul militar cls. I Viorel Cojocaru	Studentul Ştefan Coropeţchi