2023 Brovary helicopter crash

2023 Brovary helicopter crash
Helicopter crash site
Accident
Date18 January 2023
SummaryHelicopter crash, under investigation
SiteBrovary, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
50°31′13″N 30°48′04″E / 50.52028°N 30.80111°E / 50.52028; 30.80111
Total fatalities14
Total injuries25
Aircraft

The helicopter involved (November 2020)
Aircraft typeEurocopter EC225 Super Puma
OperatorState Emergency Service of Ukraine
RegistrationF-WTBQ
Occupants10
Fatalities10
Survivors0
Ground casualties
Ground fatalities4
Ground injuries25

On 18 January 2023, a Ukrainian Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma carrying ten people, including Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Denys Monastyrsky, his deputy Yevhen Yenin, and State Secretary Yurii Lubkovych, crashed into a kindergarten in Brovary, a suburb of Kyiv, Ukraine. The crash killed fourteen people, including Monastyrsky, Yenin, and Lubkovych. Four of the victims were killed on the ground, including one child.[1] Twenty-five other people were injured on the ground, including eleven children.[2][3][4][5]

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