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| 1963 : 1 | 1964 : 1 | 1965 : 1 | 1968 : 1 | 1971 : 2 | 1972 : 1 | 1973 : 2 | 1976 : 1 | 1978 : 1 | 1979 : 2 | 1980 : 1 | 1982 : 1 | 1983 : 2 | 1984 : 2 | 1985 : 1 |
| 1986 : 2 | 1988 : 1 | 1989 : 1 | 1990 : 1 | 1991 : 2 | 1992 : 1 | 1997 : 1 | 2001 : 1 | 2002 : 1 | 2003 : 1 | 2005 : 4 | 2008 : 1 | 2010 : 2 | 2011 : 1 | 2012 : 1 |
| 2013 : 1 | 2014 : 1 | 2018 : 2 | 2019 : 1 |
A total of 46 Accidents and Losses are listed.
| Date | Aircraft Type | Tail No | Pilot/Crew | Photo | Unit | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Nov 63 | Chetak | Flt Lt Satnam Singh Sodhi + AVM Erlic Wilmot Pinto + |   | 107 HU | Cr at poonch 6 killed incl 4 Generals | |
| 01 Jun 64 | Chetak | Plt Offr Sujit Kumar Palit | 114 HU | Near Khardungla Pass DNE | ||
| 23 Jul 65 | Chetak | BZ-796 | | 114 HU | Trg Sortie | |
| 30 Jun 68 | Chetak | | 114 HU | DNE. Cat E | ||
| 05 Dec 71 | Chetak | Fg Offr Satyavolu Sri Ramarao | 114 HU | SD by F-86, 5 KM SW of Srinagar | ||
| 11 Dec 71 | Chetak | Z-366 | Flt Lt Kharlti Lal Bajaj + | 114 HU | Hit Power Lines at Pt 7573 in Kashmir | |
| 06 Nov 72 | Chetak | Major Gill Capt Ashok K Vasudev | ARMY | Helicopter strayed into Minimarg across POK. Ac ro | ||
| 07 Feb 73 | Chetak | Flt Lt Mahadev Prabhakar Lagu + Fg Offr Chandragupta Jinendra Narade + | 114 HU | In Memoriam - 3rd Pssnger A N S Ranawat 12221 | ||
| 16 Aug 73 | Chetak | Flt Lt Ravi Kant Verma + Flt Lt Subhash Kumar Arora + |  | 115 HU | PMO of EAC was also killed | |
| 15 Nov 76 | Chetak | Flt Lt Chandan Gupta + Flt Lt Murthy | ASTE | killed in crash - test pilot school. Date given as | ||
| 03 Nov 78 | Chetak | Sqn Ldr Anil Kumar Dogra + Sqn Ldr Manohar Lal Monga + | 114 HU | Crashed 15 Miles SW of Leh | ||
| 01 May 79 | Chetak | Sqn Ldr Manohar Pandurang Rane + Flt Lt Madhusudan Sareen + | 104 HS | Cr 45 Km fm Halwara 4 CK | ||
| 07 Nov 79 | Chetak | Sqn Ldr Jose Jesus Da Conceicao E Souza + Sqn Ldr Bansi Parmar | 121 HU | 2CK after HC cr Bombay High | ||
| 06 Oct 80 | Chetak | Capt S Venkataramani + Plt Offr Sudhir Kaul + | HTS | In Memoriam | ||
| 29 Dec 82 | Chetak | Wg Cdr Yoginder Prakash + Fg Offr Shivender Singh + | 142 SSS Fl | Cr Gangtok 5 Killed incl Gp Capt R Tandon (5391), | ||
| 04 Mar 83 | Chetak | Lt Col Panni Korema Madhavan + Capt D K Malhotra | ARMY - 17 | In Memoriam | ||
| 19 Apr 83 | Chetak | Flt Lt Ganapathy Sarma Padam Kumar + Plt Offr Dharambir Singh Hooda + | 116 HU | Cr at Manali Both Pilots Froze to Death Plt Offr D | ||
| 18 Aug 84 | Chetak | Lt Col Butalia Capt | ARMY | Crash landed on runway due to tail rotor flying of | ||
| 25 Aug 84 | Chetak | Fg Offr Manbir Singh Chahal + Plt Offr Digvijay Singh + | 104 HS | Cr in bad weather near Solan - Maj Gen OS Bhandari | ||
| 30 Dec 85 | Chetak | Fg Offr Ajit Gopal Twade + Fg Offr Pravin Kumar Yadav + | 117 HU | Cr 15 km fm Silchar 2 Killed | ||
| 03 Aug 86 | Chetak | Lt Cdr Inderjit Saini + Lt C O Prasad + | NAVY | Sub Lt V Pimplikar K. Vizag INAS cr Simhachalam Hi | ||
| 15 Sep 86 | Chetak | Capt Syam Sunder + Capt R Sibal | ARMY - 7 A | Cr in chara vill Patiala 2 killed | ||
| 08 Jun 88 | Chetak | Fg Offr Jatinder Singh + Sqn Ldr Surendra Kumar Dogra + | 131 FAC Fl | Cr after Wirestrike Hamirput HP 4 K. Fg Offr Sanje | ||
| 31 May 89 | Chetak | Lt Chandrakumar + | NAVY | Wirestrike at Rameshwaram 5 Killed | ||
| 28 Jul 90 | Chetak | | NAVY | Kochi | ||
| 26 Jul 91 | Chetak | | Panchami Vill 60 km fm Jammu 6 Killed | |||
| 16 Aug 91 | Chetak | Lt N M Shaik + | NAVY | Cr fm Mangalore 4 Killed | ||
| 08 Dec 92 | Chetak | Fg Offr Sanjay Mishra + Fg Offr Anil Awasthi + | Gadra Rd Barmer Dist 1 IAF and 4 Army off K | |||
| 11 Dec 97 | Chetak | Sqn Ldr Balakrishan T + Fg Offr Jaspreet Singh Bindra + | 131 FAC Fl | Cr jogewala Raj 4 k incl CO AEB, G/C Damodaran and | ||
| 30 Jan 01 | Chetak | Maj Sanjay Lochup + | ARMY | Cr Sanjichhat Helipad Vaishnodevi 5 Army Men K | ||
| 12 Apr 02 | Chetak | | HE(A) RSQ | |||
| 31 Jul 03 | Chetak | Flt Lt Vinayak Narayanan + Capt Avinash Sharma + | HTS | hc cr 35km from Hakimpet | ||
| 01 Feb 05 | Chetak | | Jamnagar | |||
| 21 Feb 05 | Chetak | | NAVY | Visakhapatnam | ||
| 06 May 05 | Chetak | IN-493 | Lt Cdr D Poddar + Sub Lt M Bhaskaran + | NAVY | Sub Lt M Bhaskaran and Div VR Karla k - nr Chennai | |
| 07 Sep 05 | Chetak | | NAVY | No details | ||
| 22 Jan 08 | Chetak | | Coast Guar | Cr in Bob off Little Andaman , from Port Blair | ||
| 02 Jun 10 | Chetak | IN-468 | Lt Cdr Hritikesh Lt Cdr Tushar Sharma | NAVY | On Routine training sortie crashed into the river | |
| 11 Sep 10 | Chetak | Z-1417 | Sqn Ldr Gaurav Kumar Verma + Flt Lt Sankalp Tewari + | 142 SSS Fl | 3k Tech Naresh Kumar . Chetak helicopter after tak | |
| 13 May 11 | Chetak | VT-EQL | Capt Bal + (PHHL) Dy Cdt Vivek Choudhary + | BSF | Crashed Rajasthan Sirohi Dist, Fatehpur Village, M | |
| 15 Oct 12 | Chetak | IN-405 | Lt Cdr D Singh Lt Rahul | NAVY | Crashed at INS Hansa Naval airbase, Dabolim Airpor | |
| 05 Mar 13 | Chetak | IN-440 | Cdr Krishna Kumar | NAVY | Cr 10m in sea off INS Dega, Visakhapatnam | |
| 18 Sep 14 | Chetak | | NAVY | Hardlanding at Uran village near mumbai, crew inju | ||
| 10 Mar 18 | Chetak | CG-803 | Cmdt Balwinder Singh Asst Cmdt Penny Chaudhary + | Coast Guar | Indian Coast Guard helicopter that made a hard lan | |
| 01 Oct 18 | Chetak | IN-442 | | NAVY - INA | Tamil Nadu: Chetak CH442 crashes during a training | |
| 10 Apr 19 | Chetak | | NAVY | Helicopter developed technical failure prior to di |
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Note: All the data available here is publicly available in the Gazette of India, published by the Indian Government, or from public domain sources, press releases about Awards and Right-To-Information (RTI) Requests. Additionally data shared by veterans is added to the page with permission. No data with respect to serving officers below the rank of AVM is displayed. Information in Gazette of India and Award citations and photographs as released by the Indian Air Force are the only details displayed.