This article is a list of accidents and incidents involving helicopters and which are notable enough to have an article on Wikipedia. It is grouped by the years in which the accidents and incidents occurred.

1960s 1968 22 May – Sikorsky S-61L N303Y, operating Los Angeles Airways Flight 841, suffers a mechanical failure in flight which allows the rotor blades to collide with the aircraft's fuselage. It crashes at Paramount, California, killing all 23 people on board. 14 August – Sikorsky S-61L N300Y, operating Los Angeles Airways Flight 417, loses a rotor blade in flight and crashes at Compton, California. All 21 people on board are killed.

1970s 1975 17 January – Sikorsky S-55B helicopter crashes in Iceland while en route from Reykjavík Airport to Snæfellsnes.

1977 10 May – A Sikorsky CH-53 Yas'ur of the Israeli Air Force crashes in the Jordan Valley. All 54 people on board are killed.

1978 21 June – Two Boeing CH-47 Chinooks of the Imperial Iranian Air Force are shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces after straying into Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic airspace. One aircraft is destroyed with the loss of eight lives. The other is damaged; it is later repaired with permission from Soviet authorities and returns to Iran. 26 June – Sikorsky S-61 LN-OQS of Helikopter Service loses a rotor blade in flight and crashes into the North Sea off Bergen, Norway. All 18 people on board are killed.

1980s 1981 13 August – Westland Wessex G-ASWI of Bristow Helicopters suffers an engine failure and ditches in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom. All thirteen people on board are killed.

1982 23 July – Bell UH-1 Iroquois N87701 of Western Helicopters is damaged by pyrotechnic explosions and crashes while a scene for Twilight Zone: The Movie is being filmed at Indian Dunes, California. Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors are killed on the ground. 14 September – Bell 212 G-BDIL owned by Bristow Helicopters crashes while on a nighttime search and rescue mission in the North Sea, killing all six crew members on board.

1983 16 July – Sikorsky S-61 G-BEON of British Airways crashes into the Atlantic Ocean between the coast of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Twenty of the 26 people on board are killed.

1984 23 October – A Bell UH-1H (number 284) of the Salvadoran Air Force is bombed by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) during the Salvadoran Civil War. All 14 people on board the helicopter are killed, including Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa. The bomb was hidden in a reserve radio transmitter used by the FMLN's Radio Venceremos and was captured by Monterrosa's forces as a war trophy.

1986 18 June – Bell 206 N6TC of Helitech collides with Grand Canyon Airlines Flight 6 in mid-air over the Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States. All five people on board are killed, as are all twenty people on board the de Havilland Twin Otter that it collided with. 2 October – A Mil Mi-8 involved in the cleanup effort that followed the Chernobyl disaster struck the cable of a crane at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, and fell to the ground, killing all four people on board. 6 November – Boeing 234LR Chinook G-BWFC of British International Helicopters suffers a mechanical failure. The aircraft ditches at sea off Sumburgh Airport, Shetland Islands, killing 45 of the 47 people on board.

1988 13 July – Sikorsky S-61N G-BEID of British International Helicopters suffers an engine fire and ditches into the North Sea off the Shetland Islands. All 21 people on board are rescued.

1990s 1990 27 August – A Bell 206 helicopter carrying musicians and event staff following a concert crashes into the side of a ski slope in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, killing all five people on board including blues rock guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan.

1991 4 April – A Bell 412 and Piper Aerostar collide in mid-air in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. All five people on both aircraft, including United States senator John Heinz, along with two children on the ground, are killed. 25 October – A Bell 206 crashes into a high-voltage transmission tower near Vallejo, California, during bad weather. All three on board are killed, including Bill Graham. 20 November – A Mil Mi-8 belonging to the Azerbaijani Government is shot down by the Armenian military during the Nagorno-Karabakh War and crashes near Karakend. All 22 people on board are killed.

1992 28 January – An Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 is shot down near Shusha by Armenian forces. All 44 people on board are killed.

1993 26 November – Aérospatiale AS 355 F1 ZK-HIT of the New Zealand Police collides in mid-air with Piper Archer ZK-ENX over Auckland. Both aircraft crash, killing all four people on board.

1994 2 June – Boeing Chinook HC2 ZD576 of the Royal Air Force crashes on the Mull of Kintyre, Argyll. All 29 people on board are killed.

1995 19 January – Aérospatiale AS332 Super Puma G-TIGK, operating Bristow Flight 56C is struck by lightning and ditches in the North Sea off the coast of Aberdeenshire. All 18 people on board survive.

1996 16 September – a Eurocopter HH-65 Dolphin Israeli Navy helicopter (tail number 905) crashed into the Mediterranean Sea, approximately 12 miles (19 kilometers) off the coast of Nahariya, Israel. All three crew members aboard were killed, marking the first fatalities in the history of Squadron 193.

1997 4 February – Two Sikorsky S-65C-3 Yas'ur 2000s of the Israeli Air Force collide in mid-air over She'ar Yashuv and crash. All 73 people on board the two aircraft are killed. 8 September – Eurocopter AS332L Super Puma LN-OPG operating Helikopter Service Flight 451 suffers a mechanical failure and crashes into the Norwegian Sea. All 12 people on board are killed.

2000s 2000 16 September – A Mil Mi-17 of the Sri Lanka Air Force crashes in Aranayake near Kandy, Sri Lanka. All 15 people on board, including outgoing Ports Minister M H M Ashraff, were killed.

2001 17 September – A Mil Mi-8 of the Russian Armed Forces is shot down at Grozny, Chechnya. All 13 people on board are killed.

2002 27 January – A Mil Mi-8 of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs is shot down near Shelkovskaya, Chechnya. All fourteen people on board are killed. 16 July – Sikorsky S-76A G-BJVX of Bristow Helicopters crashes into the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk following the loss of its rotor head in flight. All 11 people on board are killed. 19 August – A Mil Mi-26 of the Russian Air Force is shot down by Chechen separatists and crashes at Khankala, Chechnya. 127 people are killed.

2003 4 December – A Mil Mi-8 of the Polish Air Force crashes near Piaseczno. All fifteen people on board, including the Polish Prime Minister, Leszek Miller, survive.

2005 26 January – A Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion crashes while flying during a sandstorm in the Al-Anbar province of western Iraq, near the town of Ar-Rutbah. All 31 occupants were killed. 10 August – Sikorsky S-76C+ OH-HCI, operating Copterline Flight 103, crashes into Tallinn Bay. All 14 people on board are killed.

2006 10 December – Bell 412SP N410MA of Mercy Air Services, Inc. crashes near Hesperia, California. All three people on board are killed. 27 December – Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin G-BLUN of CHC Helicopter crashes into Morecambe Bay. All six people on board are killed.

2007 5 March – An Aérospatiale AS 332C1 Super Puma collide in mid-air with a smaller Diamond DV20 Katana near the Zell am See Airport in Austria. All eight people on board the two aircraft were killed. 27 April – A Mil Mi-8 of the Russian Air Force crashes near Shatoy, Chechnya. All twenty people on board are killed. 3 June – A Mil Mi-8 of Paramount Airlines crashes at Lungi, Sierra Leone. 22 of the 23 occupants on board are killed. 27 July – Two Eurocopter AS350 AStars collide in mid-air above Phoenix, Arizona. All four people on board the two aircraft are killed.

2008 12 January – Mil Mi-17 transport helicopter belonging to the Armed Forces of the Republic of Macedonia crashes near the village of Blace, in the region of Katlanovo,11 ARM soldiers die in copter crash near Katlanovo Macedonian Information Agency. approximately 10–15 kilometres south-east of Skopje. All 11 individuals aboard the helicopter, including eight passengers and three crew members, are killed.Macedonian helicopter crash kills 11 by Ognen Teofilovski. The Age. 13 January 2008.

2009 17 January – A Eurocopter AS 532 of the French Navy crashes shortly after take-off from the amphibious assault ship Foudre off the coast of Gabon. Eight of the ten people on board are killed. 12 March – A Sikorsky S-92 suffers a mechanical failure and ditches in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Seventeen of the 18 people on board are killed. 25 March – A Bell 206L-4 LongRanger crashes into Mount Keş, Turkey, killing all six people on board. 1 April – A Eurocopter AS332L2 Super Puma Mk 2 of Bond Offshore Helicopters suffers a mechanical failure and crashes into the North Sea off the coast of Aberdeenshire. All 16 people on board are killed. 3 May – A Mil Mi-17 of the Venezuelan Army crashes in Táchira province. All seventeen people on board are killed. 3 July – A Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashes in Khyber Pass, Pakistan, killing all 41 people on board. 8 August – A Eurocopter AS350 collides with a Piper PA-32R over the Hudson River between Hoboken, New Jersey and New York City, United States. The six occupants of the helicopter and the three occupants of the Piper aircraft all perish. 2 September – Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy's Bell 430 helicopter crashes, killing all five people on board.

2010s 2010

26 July – A Sikorsky CH-53 Yas'ur of the Israeli Air Force crashes in the Bucegi Mountains, Romania. All seven people on board are killed.

2011 19 April – Mil Mi-172 VT-PHF of Pawan Hans crashes on landing at Tawang, India. Seventeen of the 23 people on board are killed. 6 August – A Boeing CH-47 Chinook of the United States Military is shot down by a rocket propelled grenade in Afghanistan. All 38 people on board and a military dog are killed.

2012 10 June – A Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil of the Kenya Police crashes in the Ngong Forest. All six people on board are killed. 21 December – Mil Mi-8 RA-27003, operating as United Nations Flight 544, is shot down by the Sudan People's Liberation Army in a friendly fire incident at Likuangole, South Sudan, killing all five people on board.

2013

16 January – Castle Air AgustaWestland AW109 G-CRST collides with a crane at Vauxhall, London and crashes. The pilot is killed, as is a pedestrian. 21 March – A Eurocopter EC155 and a Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma collide on the ground near the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, leaving one crew member dead. 7 April – A Helipac Mil Mi8-PS crashes in the Loreto Region of Peru. All 13 people on board are killed. 2 July – Polar Airlines Mil Mi-8 RA-22657 crashes near Deputatsky, Russia. Twenty-four of the 28 people on board are killed. 23 August – A CHC Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma Mk 2 crashes into the sea 2 nm from Sumburgh in the Shetland Islands, Scotland while en route from Borgsten Dolphin oil platform. The accident kills four of the passengers; twelve other passengers and two crew were rescued. 29 November – A Police Scotland EC135 T2 crashes into a pub in Glasgow, Scotland. Three occupants of the aircraft are killed, as are seven pub patrons.

2014 13 March – AgustaWestland AW139 G-LBAL of Haughey Air crashes shortly after take-off from Gillingham, Norfolk, killing all four people on board 12 November – an Armenian Mil Mi-24 is shot down near Gəngərli village, Aghdam, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, killing all three crew members.

2015 9 March – Two Eurocopter AS350B3 Ecureuils LQ-CGK and LQ-FJQ collide in mid-air and crash, killing all ten people on board.