Claim: Helicopter has a list of deadly crashes by death toll wherein the most number of deaths was 127 in 2002 which happened in China using Mil Mi-26 aircraft while the least was 31 in 2005 which was in the United States wherein the aircraft used was Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion, USMC.
Evidence: 19 August – A Mil Mi-26 of the Russian Air Force is shot down by Chechen separatists and crashes at Khankala, Chechnya. One hundred and twenty-seven people are killed. 
26 January – A Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion crashed while flying during a sandstorm in the Al-Anbar province of western Iraq, near the town of Ar-Rutbah. All 31 occupants were killed.