Gubir shootdown | |||||||
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Part of Operation Gubir 2 of the Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989) | |||||||
A Sikorsky S-61A-4 Nuri of the RMAF, c. 2009, similar to the one involved in the incident. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Malaysia | Communist Party of Malaya | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
No centralised leadership | |||||||
Units involved | |||||||
RMAF | MNLA | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
| Unknown | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
| None |
On 26 April 1976, during a counterinsurgency operation conducted by the Malaysian government against guerilla fighters from the Malayan Communist Party, a Sikorsky S-61A-4 Nuri helicopter operated by the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) was shot down by insurgents in forest reserves near the village of Gubir in Sik, Kedah. The incident killed all 11 people on board the aircraft. It was the first time guerillas shot down an aircraft throughout the Malayan Emergency and subsequent communist insurgency in Malaysia and represented the first personnel killed in action in RMAF history.