Five Die In Pakistan Army Helicopter Crash

The Pakistan Army on Monday, 1 September, 2025 confirmed one its helicopters crashed in northern Pakistan on Monday, killing all five people on board.
“The helicopter was on routine training flying when it developed a technical fault and crashed,” the army said in a statement, just as it also added that two pilots, two crew, and a flight engineer on board the MI-17 died.
Prior to this confirmation by the Pakistan Army, a police official in the district had earlier said that the helicopter crashed during a test landing on a newly proposed helipad.
The helicopter came down in a mountainous tourist area in Diamer district, in Gilgit Baltistan, around 10:00 am (0500 GMT).
It comes just weeks after a government MI-17 helicopter crashed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province while carrying out flood relief efforts, killing all five crew and pilots.
There have been several deadly helicopter crashes in Pakistan in recent years, including in 2022, when five servicemen and one of the army’s top commanders were killed when their helicopter crashed during flood relief operations in southwestern Balochistan province