Captain Bahram-haj-esfandiyari with five others was killed in a helicopter crash
in 2006 while serving in the IRIAA.
The following details concern
Iranian Rotary Winged
Helicopter Losses
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 Captain Bahram-haj-esfandiyari |
Captain Bahram-haj-esfandiyari with five others was killed in a helicopter crash in 2006 while serving in the IRIAA. |
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1976 |
DETAILS ????? |
General Fazayel Tadayoun Commander IIAF (1975) killed |
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21st July 1978 also seen as 21st June 1978 |
 IIAF |
CH-47C Chinook | shot down in the Turkimenistan Military District by MiG-23M flown by Soviet pilot V.I. Shkinder using R-60 (AA-8 Aphid) missiles | 8 crew killed | |||||||||||||||
| 21st July 1978 |
IIAF |
CH-47C Chinook | 5-4092 | forced down near Gjaurs in the Turkimenistan Military District by MiG-23M flown by Soviet pilot V.I. Shkinder using GSh-23L 23mm cannon |
4 crew killed 4 crew survived later allowed to return home |
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| 21st September 1980 |
 IRIAA |
Bell 206 helicopter |
collision with high voltage post in very bad weather |
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pilot Lt.Col. Mostafa Azizi killed |
0azizi Abadan killed |
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| 15th July 1983 |
IRIAA |
CH-47 | Transporting Marines to the front line. Shot down by Iraqi Mirage F-1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 15th July 1983 |
IRIAA |
CH-47 | Transporting Marines to the front line. Shot down by Iraqi Mirage F-1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 15th July 1983 |
IRIAA |
CH-47 | Transporting Marines to the front line. Shot down by Iraqi Mirage F-1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 28th September 1988 |
IRIAA |
claimed shot down by Mig 23MLD flown
by Vladimir Astakhov VVS, 120 IAP during Afghan Conflict |
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| 28th September 1988 |
IRIAA |
claimed shot down by by Mig 23MLD
flown by Boris Gavrilov VVS, 120 IAP during Afghan Conflict |
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Tuesday 15th August 2000 |
affiliate of the Total Fina Elf Group | supply Helicopter |
working on the development of the South Pars 1 project. Crashed in the Persian Gulf CONFIRM DETAILS |
Three crew members were rescued by boats from a nearby oil rig two other crew members were missing | |||||||||||||||
| TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A U.S. ship rescued the two-man crew of an Iranian helicopter that crashed near an oil rig in the Persian Gulf, state-run radio reported Wednesday. The conditions of the pilot and co-pilot, who were believed to be Iranian, were not immediately known | |||||||||||||||||||
| August, 2001 | Iranian Army successfully tested the country's first cargo helicopter - entirely designed and built in Iran. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 29 August 2001 | Helicopter | Crashed in Iran's southwestern Chaharmalh va-Bakhtiari province |
Interior Minister Abdolvahed Mussavi Lari OK Other details appreciated |
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| 28th December 2003 | Iranian helicopter | crashes 30 miles away from Bam | |||||||||||||||||
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Saturday 29th May 2004 15:00 |
Bell 205 | Came down near Mollem-Kalaye north of Qazvin. On inspection of earthquake [Friday 28th May 2004] damage of district of Roudbar Alamout |
Massoud Emami [governor of Iran's
northwestern province of Qazvin] |
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Friday 11th August 2006 6 am |
helicopter | crashed in the northern province of Mazandaran, near Iran’s highest peak, Mount Damavand in the Larijan region, some 85 kilometers north of Tehran. |
six people killed [three flight crew] [two Iranian Air Force Personnel] [one member of Iran's National Mountaineering Federation] no survivors |
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According to one report, the
control was lost of the aircraft, leading to three passengers to falling out
of the helicopter while it was still flying.
The two pilots and another passenger were killed when the aircraft crashed FURTHER DETAILS APPRECIATED |
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18th October 2006 27.08.1385
also seen given as |
IRIAA |
CH-47 Chinook |
TFB-8 Isfahan |
Rear rotor damage. Crashed near Najaf Abad, 336 kilometres (210 miles) south of Tehran, near the central city of Isfahan |
All six on board killed | ||||||||||||||
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ABOVE CRASH DETAILS NEED CONFIRMING |
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| Saturday 18th November 2007 | Iran Oil Ministry | crashed into Maharlou Lake, south of Shiraz, in southern Iran during attempt to recover wreckage of previous helicopter loss | Two people killed | ||||||||||||||||
| 24th February 2007 |
IRGC |
helicopter | Claimed to have been shot down by Iranian Kurdish rebel group, Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) using a shoulder-held missile. Crashed near the border with Turkey and Iraq in the province of West Azerbaijan | Revolutionary Guards commander Saeed Ghahari killed. No other details of losses | |||||||||||||||
| 10th June 2007 | helicopter | Crashed in Karman Province, near Marz village South East of Iran. Used for rescue operation following Guno Cyclone | No injuries or loss of life | ||||||||||||||||
| 18th August 2007 |
IRGC |
Helicopter ??? |
214 | Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) |
Crashed due to bad weather conditions
on a mission to Piranshahr border region. Went down in the region of Kouh-Ghandil in the vicinity of the city of Piranshahr in northwestern Iran It is also being reported that the helicopter was brought down by rebel troops |
 five IRGC and Basiji (mobilized) troops killed |
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| 6 wounded. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Thursday 18th October 2007 |
IRIAA |
Army Helicopter | crashed in Kermanshah south of Kurdistan province bordering Iraq | Two Killed | |||||||||||||||
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DATE ?? |
crashed over Kurdestan |
Ali Shamsbeigi killed |
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DATE ?? |
in Iraq |
Khalil Ghobadi killed |
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