Landed dangerously close to previously-identified hazard during brown-out landing at night. Pilot elected to wait for daylight to depart and patient went to medical facility by ground ambulance... Read more
Tail struck ground during hover... Read more
Crashed into cornfield, burning out and killing sole occupant pilot named as Michael Scarfia.... Read more
Skid caught ground on take-off – helicopter rolled-over onto its side... Read more
Helicopter was subject to small arms fire from the ground and was badly damaged. Four of the nine passengers sustained gunshot related injuries. CADAORS ref 2012C4147... Read more
Tail rotor struck sand bank on take-off.  Substantial damage included the tail rotor, tailboom, tail rotor gearbox, horizontal stabilizer, 1 main rotor blade and the long shaft. CADAORS ref 2012Q2152... Read more
Lost control in the hover... Read more
Helicopter crashed and burnt out. Both occupants killed – later named here as Christopher John Yeager, 40, the pilot of Houston and Joyce Ann Ates, 60, a photographer from Midwest City, Oklahoma.... Read more
Skid snagged ground taking off from sloping ground, causing helicopter to turn onto its side. Debris from helicopter killed... Read more
Lost power and forced to land in a field. Main blades hit tail boom... Read more
Bird strike... Read more
Crashed after losing control in the hover... Read more
Night bird strike, cracking search light housing. Landed safely... Read more
Main blades severed tail boom during landing. CADAORS ref 2012P1524... Read more
R44 routing from Switzerland through France to Spain. Had taken off from Clermont-Ferrand, destination Le Luc in the Var region. Father and son killed in the accident. Controlled flight into terrain. Aircraft destroyed... Read more
Piloted by Commander Paulo Loureiro and the co-pilot Diogo Cabral – and involved in firefighting when it crashed.... Read more
Unknown helicopter type crashed into a farm field killing the only occupant, named in the press as Kenneth M. Smith, 61.... Read more
Tail rotor drive shaft sheared... Read more
Hit by laser while circling potential EZ landing site. Source identified, arrest made... Read more
Four injured when helicopter came down after hitting cables. The helicopter was involved in maintenance work on the cables. Two were “ejected”, from an underslung cradle, and two were in the helicopter. Pilot Joel Prisse has dislocated shoulder and crew Philippe Pournin has multiple lower limb fractures. Aircraft destroyed... Read more
State Police Trooper/pilot Trooper Thomas A. Shultz, 41, was injured in a very heavy landing after “he experienced an in-flight mechanical emergency.” Photo shows skids splayed out after landing in a wooded area... Read more
Emergency landing after loss of engine power while on agricultural operations... Read more
Helicopter landed with considerable forward speed and cartwheeled over its nose on landing – indicating skids possible dug into ground. Helicopter destroyed but all 5 POB (including spiritual leader Asaram Bapu) safely exited with only minor injuries... Read more
Bird strike reported to FAA. Landed without any further incident... Read more
Safe landing with 16 POB plus crew after smoke was noticed in the cockpit – later discovered as the aircon unit burning out.... Read more
Pilot Bill Cavanaugh, was taken to San Joaquin General Hospital following crash on agricultural operations. His son told a TV station that his father had over 20,000 hours of flying experience... Read more
Emergency landing of media helicopter due to oil leak and heavy smoke flume in the air. Helicopter was operating for KTLA Channel 5. Pilot was Tim Lynn... Read more
Safe night emergency landing made in sports field after bird strike caused 24 inch diameter hole in windshield... Read more
Starboard cargo door opened and object fell out and struck tail rotor. Emergency landing made without further incident. Helicopter fitted with SpacePod cargo doors.... Read more
Struck low-level power cables on final approach due to the pilot having the sun in his eyes. Helicopter ended on starboard side. 60- year old pilot suffered concussion, head injury and scratches... Read more
Crashed into lake shortly after take-off around 10.20pm – after dropping off six passengers at helicopter owner’s home. Sole occupant pilot was named in local press as Bill R. Starnes, 64 (see obituary)... Read more
Intoxicated person approached helicopter outside pilot’s peripheral vision while at flight idle and with the patient on board being stabilised. New helipad lacked chain or fence to stop anyone approaching pad, which is adjacent to public-access area... Read more
Transmission chip light came on. Power reduce and an emergency landing was made at Pope Army Airfield which was about 3-4 miles away without further incident... Read more
High level of vibrations during landing phase. Helicopter landed hard and rolled over.... Read more
#2 engine low oil pressure illuminated and engine lost power in landing phase. Otherwise uneventful landing... Read more
Two occupants, substantially damaged... Read more
Came down suddenly short of intended landing point while on approach on a training flight. Student Edvaldo Francisco dos Santos (a Major in the Military Police), 46, suffered a fractured spine, and flight instructor John Bosco da Cunha, 62, a fractured right tibia.... Read more
Kawasaki-built 500C crashed in open field, main rotor having cut tail boom. 69-year-old pilot and a 43-year-old passenger suffered minor injuries but managed to walk to a nearby home to raise the alarm... Read more
Emergency landing made in forest area, helicopter ended up on its side heavily damaged. Wedding flight – groom Danilo Everson dos Santos Rosa and the bride’s mother Maria de Lourdes Rosa, 49, were the passengers. Pilot was Rodrigo Batista Lemos, age 32. All three to hospital... Read more
Loss of control landing in strong winds – main blades hit building... Read more
Main driveshaft failure in low level hover... Read more
Lack of fuel. The helicopter landed hard and the main rotor blades contacted and severed the tail boom, forward of the tail rotor assembly.... Read more
Training flight, reportedly practicing autorotations. CFI Gary Hansen sustained bad head injuries, student only minor injuries.... Read more
Door fell off on take off. Landed without further incident... Read more
News report just says it crashed, no further details yet available. Possibly G-BTHI (1732)... Read more
Force landed and tipped over... Read more
After losing power to the number 2 engine, the pilot successfully landed the helicopter onto the water. The auto-floatation device deployed, one side reportedly deflated and as the main rotor brake was being applied, the helicopter rolled over. CADAORS 2012P1300... Read more
Tail rotor struck wire on approach after crew were distracted by vehicle on ground potentially entering landing zone. Landed without further incident... Read more
Crashed and pilot to hospital – CADAORS 2012A0768... Read more
Helicopter went AOG and was grounded for four days on a helipad which averages six EMS landings per week... Read more
Crashed from low level (approx 15m) after hitting a tree. Aircraft destroyed... Read more
While firefighting, refilling hose struck trees and then swung up into main rotors and the tail boom. Extensively damaged.... Read more
Helicopter crashed while carrying out agricultural work. No further details at this time. Pilot fatally injured... Read more
Air Ambulance helicopter damaged by vandals while parked on scene – aerial broken, but no airworthiness implications... Read more
Firefighting helicopter impacted terrain, killing 5 including three Russian citizens named as Alexander Gavrilov, Nikolai Atepalikhin and Sergey Khorokhorin... Read more
Detail to follow – CADAORS 2012C3400... Read more
Struck guide wire to a tower... Read more
Pilot had left the rotors to run down and departed the helicopter. “Blades seen to begin oscillating, striking the tail boom and the ground beside the helicopter”... Read more
En route to pick up miners at the remote site when the helicopter crashed into the side of a hill and rolled a considerable distance, killing the pilot -Â later named as James Hopper, 63... Read more
Struck wires... Read more
Crashed near the beach at Porto Seguro, reportedly due to pilot Ruan Oliveira Santana, 31, losing control in heavy winds. Pilot and five passengers all got out OK – named as Rogério Andrade, 47, RaÃssa Aguiar, 19, and three children. Photos here... Read more
Rolled over on landing... Read more
Landed in a field and rolled onto its side. Helicopter was on a test flight – reportedly for development of the main rotor system for the Bell 525 Relentless... Read more
Synidcate/Club-0wned R44 ditched in the Black Sea at night 200 metres from the shore, and sank. Sole occupant pilot (from who lives in Kharkov) swam ashore.... Read more
Reg C-FLBI is not confirmed but is the only one in this operators fleet to match the details given so far in the CADAORS report, ref 2012P1240... Read more
Low-rotor-rpm horn sounded on climb-out. Skids hit uneven ground during run-on landing, causing helicopter to fall on its side. Two occupants exited safely only to watch the helicopter be consumed by post-crash fire. see also http://www.3CapesHeliChallenge.com/... Read more
Damaged skid and had to make emergency landing on mattresses to minimise damage... Read more
The pilot’s assessment was that the helicopter had lost power, compounded by the fact that the carburettor heat control had not been returned to the ‘cold’ position before the approach and landing.... Read more
B407 carrying the Secretary of Public Security of Veracruz, Arturo Bermudez Zurita, and the Undersecretary Jose Nava Holguin, made a forced landing. Pilot was Alfonso Diaz Pineda... Read more
Landing accident – ended up on starboard side... Read more
Field landing after wire strike... Read more
Industry sources tell us (with photo evidence provided) that the helicopter took off with clamshell rear doors still open. Tower alerted pilot who returned to the airfield. Some items fell from the helicopter in the interim.... Read more
Loss of engine power at low level while crop spraying. Badly damaged landing in the crop... Read more
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