ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 149169
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| Date: | Sunday 22 February 2004 |
| Time: | 09:00 LT |
| Type: |  Bell 212 |
| Owner/operator: | Pacific Helicopters/Louis Berger Group Inc |
| Registration: | P2-PAW |
| MSN: | 30547 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1972 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Panjwayi district, 60 km SW of Kandahar -
 Afghanistan
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
A helicopter carrying workers from a US construction company crashed in southern Afghanistan after coming under small arms fire, killing an Australian pilot and seriously injuring another passenger.
The Australian male pilot of the helicopter was killed and an American woman passenger who was working in setting up health clinics in the region was seriously injured.
The helicopter carried workers of The Louis Berger Group, Inc., an American engineering firm involved in major road construction and infrastructure projects in southern Afghanistan, where rebels of the former Taliban regime are active.
Sources:
https://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-120054.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20120630072217/http://www.rotorspot.nl:80/p2.htm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 16-Sep-2012 10:53 | gerard57 | Added |
| 16-Sep-2012 12:13 | gerard57 | Updated [Aircraft type, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 16-Sep-2012 12:14 | gerard57 | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 16-Sep-2012 20:09 | Geno | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Sep-2012 13:29 | krasatpi | Added [[Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]] |
| 04-Jun-2014 14:24 | TB | Updated [Operator, Location] |
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