the bucket and longline become tangled in trees at the edge of a clearing, followed by the helicopter colliding with terrain. The pilot was fatally injured and the helicopter was destroyed.... Read more
Sole occupant pilot Rick Lucas experienced tail rotor failure and helicopter started to spin so he elected to ditch it in the shallow waters of Porirua Harbour, N of Wellington... Read more
Static and unattended EMS helicopter was blown partly off its mobile helipad in severe weather, leaving it with its tail resting on the ground. Known as Christoph 53. See Photo... Read more
Hospital worker walked into spinning tail rotor shortly after helicopter had landed, and died from his injuries... Read more
Main rotor blade strike in mountainous region during rescue. Helicopter landed safely with main blade tips suffering the most damage... Read more
Emergency field landing when transferring a patient from Ashburton Hospital to Christchurch Hospital when an indication warning light turned on. Representative from operator referred to it as a “heavy landing”. No injuries to 5 POB... Read more
Crashed into the Baltic Sea on a training exercise – The helicopter was on approach to a sea rescue cruiser at about 18:40 local time for a winch operation when suddenly loosing height and crashing into the sea, killing 3 of the 4 POB... Read more
Crashed in mountainous area shortly after take-off from weather station it had lifted supplies up to. The deceased were identified as pilot Chang Kuo-kang (had flown 3181 hours), co-pilot Lin Yi-chi (2832 hours) and bureau worker Chen Wen-chung... Read more
Contacted high voltage powerlines and crashed with 5 fatalities. Registration NOT yet verified... Read more
Emergency field landing, no apprarent damage... Read more
“Christoph 1” helicopter cut telephone line on approach to site landing to pick up patient injured in equine accident... Read more
Main rotor blades struck tail boom while running up on roof-top helipad. Incident blamed on freak wind gust... Read more
Helicopter landed to pick up a patient. While rotors were still turning, co pilot observed fuel leak and immediately told pilot to shut down helicopter and switch off electric. O-ring had failed in fuel line and was repaired on site.... Read more
Emergency landing after mechanical issues... Read more
Severe damage to rotor blades and skid after being hit by a truck while parked on is base helipad at Fresach/Freizeitpark Millstättersee Heliport, Austria. All four rotorblades including the rotorhead had to be changed, causing a total damage of 600.000 €... Read more
Three killed in an EMS helicopter accident – en route from Rockford base to Mendota to pick up a patient. Weather reported as a factor. Pilot later named as Andy Olesen, and the two flight nurses were Jim Dillow and Karen Hollis... Read more
Approx date. Autorotation landing to uneven ground in open field. Helicopter ended up tail low on its skids, and witness reported blade damage. 3 POB not injured... Read more
#2 engine low oil pressure illuminated and engine lost power in landing phase. Otherwise uneventful landing... Read more
Door fell off on take off. Landed without further incident... Read more
Emergency single-engine landing after chip light illuminated. Aircraft was en route to pick up patient.... Read more
Main rotor struck tail boom on shut down... Read more
Helicopter became unserviceable while on ground responding to emergency call. Second helicopter called in for patient... Read more
Chip light illuminated and standard procedures led to engine shut down. Uneventful single engine long field landing carried out... Read more
Birdstrike, unscheduled landing and no damage was found... Read more
Destroyed on ground by hurricane... Read more
“They made a precautionary emergency landing due to an equipment malfunction, and they had a patient on board,” said Cpl. Kelly Matthews with the Wicomico Sheriff’s Office.... Read more
Precautionary landing for a potential mechanical problem.... Read more
Reg is either Eurocopter EC135 N15TG or one of their 117s N911TG or N912TG, confirmation awaited. N912TG the most likely... Read more
Firefighting operations. While in the vicinity of the drop point, BK117 VH-LXC‟s main rotor contacted the trailing edge of AS350 VH-NFO‟s vertical fin. There was light damage to the AS350 and there were no injuries... Read more
10-Jul-09 B- Eurocopter BK117 en route Taipei to Kinmen island, Taiwan... Read more
13-Jun-09 N317MC Eurocopter BK117 Fillmore County Airport, US-Minnesota... Read more
22-May-09 D-HUUU Eurocopter BK117 Stuttgart, Germany... Read more
16-May-09 N117VU Eurocopter BK117 Yemasee, US-South Carolina... Read more
2-May-09 C-FKCM Eurocopter BK117 Calgary, Canada... Read more
28-Mar-09 N370SS Eurocopter BK117 Longwood, US-Florida... Read more
21-Mar-09 C-GDGP Eurocopter BK117 Calgary, Alberta, Canada... Read more
23-Feb-09 N122SL Eurocopter BK117 St Louis, US-Missouri... Read more
23-Feb-09 N880SF Eurocopter BK117 St Louis Downtown Airport, US-Illinois... Read more
22-Feb-09 C-GDGP Eurocopter BK117 Calgary, Alberta, Canada... Read more
12-Jan-09 N117NC Eurocopter BK117 , US-North Carolina... Read more
Truck struck main rotor blade while parked at emergency scene.  “Christoph 54”... Read more
