3-Dec-2011
Tailrotor struck a mound of dirt on landing... Read more
2-Dec-2011
Minor damage on landing... Read more
1-Dec-2011
Very heavy landing in ploughed field. Skids collapsed, post crash fire, all three POB safe... Read more
1-Dec-2011
Autorotated into the water and rolled over... Read more
30-Nov-2011
Went missing during fire fighting operations. Located some hours later in 7m of water. Bodies of pilot John “Prickles” de Ridder and passenger William MacRae from Dept of Conservation have been confirmed by divers as being inside the helicopter. Salt Air – Company statement here... Read more
30-Nov-2011
Impacted ground in fog while on low level pipeline patrol. 2POB, 1 fatal... Read more
29-Nov-2011
The helicopter was doing training flights and crashed down during landing approach. All three POB killed... Read more
29-Nov-2011
Crashed while giving an 80-year-old her birthday present flight. Ended up on its starboard side with the tail boom apparently separated midway down its length.... Read more
29-Nov-2011
Crashed in ploughed field with two minor injuries after falling 40m while working on powerlines. Helicopter substantially damaged... Read more
25-Nov-2011
Rolled over in run-on landing.... Read more
25-Nov-2011
Impacted terrain close to company helipad. Local DGAC records show the helicopter was only certified in Ecuador 7 days before. Four occupants – Pilot Patricio Villalba, front seat passenger Jorge Luis Villegas and two mechanics Luis Ferrario and Pedro Medina were all injured... Read more
23-Nov-2011
Helicopter ended up on its port side with the tail boom sliced. 23-Nov-11 is assumed date – the first reference we can find is in the evening of that date.... Read more
29-Oct-2011
The pilot had left Nome on Saturday and refueled in Unalakleet and Bethel – and had planned to spend the night in Iliamna before flying on to Anchorage on Sunday. Pilot later named as 66-year-old William Zeman. Reported as “crashed and burned”... Read more
20-Oct-2011
Post maintenance engine runs following routine engine washes. The collective control was not lowered during the start sequence and subsequently the rotorcraft unintentionally became airborne a few feet and drifted to the right as the rotor speed increased. CADAORS 2011A0961... Read more
14-Oct-2011
During take-off phase, pilot Andres Navarro Haeussler made sudden and very heavy landing on taxiway, causing damage to the aircraft. Pilot and passenger unhurt. Skids splayed out, tail ended up touching the ground... Read more
29-Jul-2011
Dual Automatic Flight Control System failure.... Read more
19-Jul-2011
Just prior to touchdown the tail rotor struck a hedge and a concrete post, damaging the tail rotor and its gearbox. There were no injuries. On arrival at an industrial depot the normal landing position had been obstructed by two articulated lorries.... Read more
14-Jul-2011
Fell off side of helipad after landing... Read more
5-Jul-2011
While cruising at 150 kt at 750 ft agl a bird struck and shattered the left windshield. The commander, seated in the left seat, suffered minor injuries so the co-pilot took control and made a successful emergency landing. The Agusta A109C’s windshield is not designed to withstand bird strikes and the regulations do not require it to... Read more
18-Apr-2011Source: Eurocopter
Engine fire while taxying for take-off to offshore rig. Fire put out on the ground... Read more
28-Mar-2011
After the passengers had boarded the aircraft, the commander heard a noise and the aircraft suddenly settled and adopted a nose high attitude. The engines were shut down, the passengers and crew disembarked. Subsequent examination of the aircraft by the crew showed that the undercarriage aft crosstube had failed, due to metallurgical fatigue.... Read more
24-Mar-2011
Pilot lost control over a forest fire. Helicopter crashed killing pilot Hector Metuaze de la Fuente, Passenger seriously injured. Post crash fire and burnt out... Read more
18-Mar-2011
Passenger struck fatally on head by main rotor when disembarking on sloping site. Pilot listed as Pablo Blanco Venegas... Read more
16-Mar-2011
Uneventful approach and landing on the helideck where it was intended to embark ten passengers and some equipment. After nine passengers had boarded, the aircraft suddenly settled and adopted a nose high attitude. The engines were shut down and the passengers and crew disembarked. Subsequent examination of the aircraft by the crew showed that the... Read more
22-Feb-2011
Brown out at 30 to 40 ft during an NVG approach... Read more
17-Aug-2010
Crashed when working on cleaning powerline insulators. 2 killed in the accident (David Canon – 28, Spanish, and Alex Weagg – 47, Spanish), 1 seriously injured (Antoni Habilane Salmero, 47, Spanish) to hospital... Read more
26-Jan-2010
Eyewitnesses reported seeing the helicopter in an obvious difficulty when one of its doors followed by a rotor blade falling off from the sky. They said they watched the helicopter going on a free spin before a loud bang followed apparently when it eventually crashed killing all four on board... Read more
1-Feb-2009
1-Feb-09 N944U Robinson R44 Ogden, US-Utah... Read more
31-May-2008
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be: The student’s improper use of the anti torque pedals during a practice hover autorotation, which resulted in the helicopter rolling over. Additional causes of the accident were the certificated flight instructor’s inadequate supervision of the maneuver and delayed remedial action.... Read more
6-Apr-2008
Fell onto starboard side when landing. None of 5 POB seriously injured... Read more
24-Mar-2008
At 50 feet, during the demonstration of Class B landing by the training captain, the helicopter experienced a sudden drop in height, hitting the ground nine metres short of the runway. There was no fatality, but damage to the nose wheels, the left main landing gear forward structure and the tail guard.... Read more
3-Aug-2007
Crashed while manuevering over Qua Ibom Terminal Airfield (QUA) at Eket, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The pilot, the sole occupant, was fatally injured. The helicopter was destroyed. There was no fire... Read more
3-Aug-2007
Very heavy landing on unauthorised flight. Pilot died from his injuries... Read more
18-Jun-2007
21-year-old flight instructor on a cross-country training flight with a student . The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be: The pilot’s failure to maintain rotor RPM during hover taxi. A contributing factor was the high density altitude weather condition.... Read more
11-Nov-2006
One person died and three others were critically injured when a helicopter on a chartered flight crashed near the southwestern Nigerian oil city of Warri. The helicopter was reported to be modifying its flight plan on account of bad weather in Port Harcourt before losing contact with air traffic controllers. It ran into high-tension power... Read more
8-Apr-2006
On a training flight, the helicopter struck the ground in a level attitude, the front of the left skid caught in the soft uneven ground, and the helicopter rolled left. The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be: The pilot’s failure to maintain control of the helicopter during the takeoff... Read more
9-Sep-2005
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be: the pilot’s failure to maintain aircraft control during initial takeoff climb resulting in an uncontrolled descent and impact with terrain. A contributing factor was the pilot’s encounter in settling with power. ... Read more
5-Aug-2004
Main blades hit folded-up hangar door on climb out from apron. Main blades sliced tail boom, skids splayed. One minor injury and 3 uninjured. Registration cancelled as “destroyed”... Read more
29-Apr-1990
Passenger from another helicopter parked nearby ran/walked under the tail boom and was struck by the tail rotor and killed. Minor damage to the helicopter... Read more
1-Jan-1900
Tail rotors contacted trees. Date of accident not known and could have been any time between 2009 when the helicopter was delivered and February 2012 when the Panamanian military issued a tender for two new tail rotor blades... Read more
