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| 1951 : 1 | 1961 : 1 | 1968 : 1 | 1970 : 1 | 1972 : 1 | 1984 : 1 | 1997 : 1 | 1998 : 1 | 2000 : 1 | 2001 : 1 | 2002 : 1 | 2003 : 1 | 2005 : 1 | 2008 : 2 | 2010 : 1 |
| 2012 : 1 | 2016 : 1 | 2017 : 1 | 2018 : 1 | 2019 : 2 | 2020 : 1 | 2022 : 3 | 2023 : 1 |
A total of 27 Accidents and Losses are listed.
| Date | Aircraft Type | Tail No | Pilot/Crew | Photo | Unit | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Apr 51 | Auster | Capt B Singh + | ARMY | In Memoriam | ||
| 25 Nov 61 | Auster | Capt Gurmit Singh + Capt S P Sachar+ | ARMY | In Memoriam. Crashed Saturday - both pilots killed | ||
| 05 Jan 68 | Auster | Capt Manmohan Singh Kent + | ARMY | In Memoriam | ||
| 14 Nov 70 | Krishak | Capt Sukhvinder Singh + | ARMY | In Memoriam | ||
| 06 Nov 72 | Chetak | Major Gill Capt Ashok K Vasudev | ARMY | Helicopter strayed into Minimarg across POK. Ac ro | ||
| 18 Aug 84 | Chetak | Lt Col Butalia Capt | ARMY | Crash landed on runway due to tail rotor flying of | ||
| 14 Nov 97 | Cheetah SA-315 | Maj P K Aggarwal + | ARMY | 4 k HC cr Tawang, DM and GOC 4 Div | ||
| 19 Oct 98 | Cheetah SA-315 | Capt G D Singh + | ARMY | Maj Shankaran too k in Army crash at Simla | ||
| 12 Jun 00 | Cheetah SA-315 | | ARMY | Cr Watlab, Maj Gen J S Mukherjee, Brig + 2 unhurt | ||
| 30 Jan 01 | Chetak | Maj Sanjay Lochup + | ARMY | Cr Sanjichhat Helipad Vaishnodevi 5 Army Men K | ||
| 24 Jan 02 | Cheetah SA-315 | Maj A P S Mohal + | ARMY | Capt Pramod Lal Killed. Leh Area | ||
| 24 Jan 03 | Cheetah SA-315 | Maj K T Krishna | ARMY | Cr Samastapura Vill 20km Baroda. Lt Col , Maj safe | ||
| 18 Feb 05 | Cheetah SA-315 | | ARMY | Siachen | ||
| 15 Aug 08 | Cheetah SA-315 | Z-1894 | Maj Sunil Ganapathy + Maj K E Padmanabhan + | ARMY | airborne at 13.20 hours on 15.08.2008 for the oper | |
| 25 Nov 08 | Cheetah SA-315 | Capt Sachin Bhatia + Maj K D Singh | ARMY | Cr in River Ramganga near Barielly, Co-Pilot Maj K | ||
| 18 Aug 10 | Cheetah SA-315 | Maj Nikhil Prakash + Maj Rakesh Sharma + | ARMY | Five km from Vishwema helipad, along the Nagaland- | ||
| 23 May 12 | Cheetah SA-315 | Maj Chandrasekar Singh + Maj Amit Mohindra | ARMY | Crashed on the Siachen glacier after delivering su | ||
| 30 Nov 16 | Cheetah SA-315 | Maj Sanjeev Latha + Maj Arvind Bazala + | ARMY | Cr10.30am at Sukna helipad. 3 killed | ||
| 05 Sep 17 | Dhruv | | ARMY | AL crashed at Tsogstalu helipad at 1330pm. GOC XIV | ||
| 23 May 18 | Cheetah SA-315 | Z-3461 | | ARMY | ZB-3461 HE(A). Natha Top The military helicopter c | |
| 27 Sep 19 | Cheetah SA-315 | Lt Col Rajneesh Parmar + Capt Kalzang Wangdi + | ARMY | en-route from Khirmu (Arunanchal Pradesh) to Yongf | ||
| 24 Oct 19 | Dhruv | | ARMY | Cr in Poonch. 9 injured including Army Commander. | ||
| 09 May 20 | Dhruv | | ARMY | North Sikkim. 5 injured | ||
| 11 Mar 22 | Cheetah SA-315 | Lt Col Vivek Kumar Dwivedi Maj Sankalp Yadav + | ARMY | crashed in the Tulail area of Gurez on a casevac s | ||
| 05 Oct 22 | Cheetah SA-315 | Lt Col Saurabh Yadav + | ARMY | |||
| 21 Oct 22 | Dhruv WSI | Maj Vikas Bhambu + Maj Mustafa + | ARMY | crashed at Migging (South of Tuting) in ArunachalP | ||
| 04 May 23 | Dhruv Mk III | | ARMY | At about 1115 hours on 04 May 2023, an Army Aviati |
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