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Date: | Wednesday 27 October 1993 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Aérospatiale AS 332B Super Puma |
Owner/operator: | Kuwait Air Force |
Registration: | 541 |
MSN: | 2117 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | over Kuwait City -
Kuwait
|
Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Mid-air collision with KAF-552 SA330L Puma (cn1276) during air show. The collision occured with the main rotors during formation. 541 plunged into sea, while 552 lost its tailboom & main rotor, disintegrated, crashed against a building & caught fire (video). There where no survivers.
Sources:
1.
http://www.griffin-helicopters.co.uk/videos/Puma%20Mid-air.mpeg 2.
http://web.archive.org/web/20121123090555/http://www.scramble.nl:80/milbase.htm 3. Flight International 6-12 April 1994
Revision history:
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13-Feb-2010 11:21 |
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13-Feb-2010 11:50 |
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20-Jun-2010 02:19 |
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20-Jun-2010 02:24 |
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20-Jun-2010 02:25 |
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20-Jun-2010 03:12 |
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24-Mar-2011 15:03 |
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08-Feb-2013 10:36 |
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Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Source] |
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