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| Date: | Friday 18 February 2000 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Bell 212 |
| Owner/operator: | Sri Lanka Air Force |
| Registration: | CH538 |
| MSN: | 31276 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1984 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Chavakachcheri, Jaffna -
 Sri Lanka
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Jaffna-Palaly Airport (JAF/VCCJ) |
Hit by intense gunfire from the LTTE and crashed.
Sources:
Scramble
AFM September 2002, p74
https://www.4aviation.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Sri-Lanka-may11-Scramble-Stefan-Goossens.pdf
Media:
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 11-Jan-2011 14:00 | ASN archive | |
| 05-Jun-2014 10:02 | TB | Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 22-Dec-2019 20:49 | TB | Updated [Total fatalities, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 27-Dec-2021 03:18 | Ron Averes | Updated [Operator, ] |
| 23-May-2024 06:27 | Prometheus | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative, ] |
| 24-Nov-2024 08:23 | Prometheus | Updated [Destination airport, ] |
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