Two occupants, both with minor injuries. Further details awaited... Read more
Field landing after reported engine failure on a training flight. No injuries reported to 2POB... Read more
Aircraft crashed under into a field near Redwood road, after the pilot lost the tail rotor and started spinning.... Read more
Rope became entangled in main rotor during a manoevre with one skid on a rock ledge while hovering, Pilot Kent Harrison made some aggressive manoevres to avoid ground crews nearby, during which the tail hit a nearby cliff face. Helicopter continued spinning, but pilot regained some control and continued to a safer landing zone and... Read more
Pilot Duane Fielding, of St. George, and his 14-year-old son/passenger were not seriously injured. Gust of wind while in a low hover led tail to touch the ground, causing the helicopter to become unstable and crash... Read more
Loss of power at 20ft agl, heavy landing... Read more
Main rotor and mast separated shortly after take-off from Sky Park Airport on post-maintenance test flight to track and balance the blades. Two fatalities named later as Claus Hauer and Bruce Orr... Read more
Rolled onto its side on landing, 2 POB, one slight injured, other not injured.... Read more
Sole occupant pilot injured in crash – helicopter was on survey work for Greenriver Energy... Read more
FAA: “Went into an embankment and rolled onto its side”. One TV station reported it as a hard landing during a mission aimed at livestock predator control.... Read more
Pilot Robin Venuti, 38 and passenger Albert Rubio killed when helicopter crashed in “treacherous terrain” on elk-hunting flight... Read more
Fell onto its side on take-off in snowy conditions... Read more
Force landing during animal capture operation... Read more
28 year old instructor and 24 year old student – both seriously injured. Crashed onto rocky mountain side and rolled some way down a slope.... Read more
“crashed under unknown circumstances” says the FAA. Pilot was solo student... Read more
Bird strike and bird entered cockpit. AirMed 4 landed safely on the helipad at Kennecott mine. There were no injuries... Read more
Tipped over onto its side on landing. Training flight... Read more
Training flight, reportedly practicing autorotations. CFI Gary Hansen sustained bad head injuries, student only minor injuries.... Read more
Three injured – pilot reported entered autorotation after engine failure. Pilot named as Ken Heidorn and passengers were Suzanne Tanner and her 15-year-old son... Read more
Bird strike en route. No injuries reported... Read more
Hard landing on training flight – skids splayed out although helicopter remained upright. Tail boom sliced by main blades.... Read more
Very heavy landing on long-line training flight. Helicopter ended up on starboard side with boom separated.... Read more
Run on landing on wet mud performed which ended in the helicopter on its side, tail boom apparently severed by the tail which ended up close to the fuselage.... Read more
AirMed was responding to a rollover on I-84 when the rotor struck a metal pole on the side of the road. The craft raised 10 feet in the air and began tipping on its side before the pilot brought it down hard on both skids, which splayout out.... Read more
Foreign object debris struck main blades on takeoff. Landed without further incident... Read more
18-Aug-09 N430UH Bell B430 Salt Lake City, US-Utah... Read more
25-May-09 N5699N Enstrom F280C Ogden, US-Utah... Read more
28-Mar-09 N430UH Bell B430 Salt Lake CIty, US-Utah... Read more
19-Mar-09 N280AD Enstrom F280FX Wendover, US-Utah... Read more
12-Mar-09 N90764 Robinson R22 Skull Valley, US-Utah... Read more
26-Feb-09 N430UT Bell B430 Salt Lake City, US-Utah... Read more
1-Feb-09 N944U Robinson R44 Ogden, US-Utah... Read more
8-Jan-09 N168SH Robinson R44 West Valley City, US-Utah... Read more
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
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
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
