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| Date: | Wednesday 27 October 1993 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Aérospatiale SA 330L Puma |
| Owner/operator: | Kuwait Air Force |
| Registration: | 552 |
| MSN: | 1276 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | over Kuwait City -
 Kuwait
|
| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Mid-air collision with KAF-541 AS332B Super Puma (cn2117) during airshow. The collision occured with the main rotors while flying formation. 541 plunged into Kuwait Bay, while 552 lost its tail boom and main rotor, disintegrated and crashed finally against a building & caught fire (video). There were no survivors.
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:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Mar-2010 23:22 | TB | Added |
| 20-Jun-2010 03:04 | TB | Updated [Date, Time, Operator, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 28-Jun-2010 00:21 | TB | Updated [Narrative, ] |
| 24-Mar-2011 14:59 | TB | Updated [Source, ] |
| 24-Mar-2011 14:59 | TB | Updated [Source, ] |
| 24-Mar-2011 15:01 | TB | Updated [Source, ] |
| 08-Feb-2013 10:33 | TB | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Source, ] |
| 29-Sep-2024 06:06 | Bloxzge 025 | Updated [Other fatalities, Narrative, ] |
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