List of people who died in helicopter accidents
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The following people died in a helicopter crash or died in an incident involving the helicopter.
- Abdul Salam Arif, President of Iraq, 1966
- René Barrientos, President of Bolivia, 1969
- Bill Graham, music promoter, helicopter accident, 1991
- Vic Morrow, decapitated by helicopter during filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie, 1982
- Rashid Karami, Prime Minister of Lebanon, 1987
- Ulysses Guimarães, Brazilian leader of PMDB party, 1992
- Gary Powers, former U2 spy pilot, helicopter accident, 1997
- Stevie Ray Vaughan, musician, 1990
- Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist, inventor of Radial keratotomy (surgical operation for correcting shortness of sight) 2000
- M.H.M. Ashraff, Sri Lankan Muslim political leader, 2000
- Aleksandr Lebed, Russian politician, 2002
- Igor Farkhutdinov, governor of Sakhalin, 2003

