Helicopter was flying low on underslung load operations lifting bundles of trees from growing location to trucks bound for Texas. 1POB, named as Tim Smith, 41... Read more
Pilot was Paul Alan Beach (66) was fatally injured and passenger Steven Michael Chenoweth (53) is in serious condition. Chenoweth’s 13 year old son witnessed the crash and made the 911 call... Read more
Engine not running evenly, pilot put down very heavily, skids collapsed.... Read more
Weather was reported as poor. The helicopter was piloted by Captains Israel Vega Castillo and Ernesto Carranza DomÃnguez, and flight technical Concepción Valdés Carrillo. Registration wrongly reported in press as XU-ANI which is not a Mexican registration (we expect XA- prefix)... Read more
Helicopter described as “ultralight” and press report states it was the first accident of this type of helicopter in Czech Republic... Read more
“Three aboard missing helicopter” Officials said the aircraft was traveling Panama-Cali, the capital of the Valle del Cauca department.... Read more
Damaged during operation to clean insulators of a transmission line... Read more
News reporting helicopter made emergency landing at Whiteman Field, Pacoima. Tail boom hti ground and broke off in autorotation. Cabin landed upright on skids, 2POB OK (Pilot Derek Bell and cameraman Chris Haug)... Read more
Helicopter suffered a heavy landing in a field, skids compacted and tail hit the ground. Cabin was untouched.... Read more
HeliHub.com has received information of an emergency at 16:35 on 11th November at Pensacola Airport where a Life Flight heilcopter put down in an emergency there with smoke in the cockpit. This is believed to refer to Baptist Life Flight, who operate EC135s. Airport fire department units attended. More information when we receive it.... Read more
TV station helicopter made emergency landing – no details on damage levels sustained... Read more
After approaching runway 26 at Trebujena Airfield, Spain, the helicopter crashed after the student pilot lost control while making a 180-degree turn. 1 on board o.k.... Read more
Pilot Russell Parker, aged 39, died in this R22 accident while mustering cattle... Read more
Tail rotor struck a cactus. Pilot was sole occupant... Read more
Two crewmembers, Captain Sabin Basnet and Engineer Purna Awale, have been killed in the crash.... Read more
Canadian-born pilot Alex Remond Claude Deur, died in the crash at Taltal, near Route 5 North in the region of Antofagasta.... Read more
On landing at the hospital, fuel sprayed over the 11 persons in the landing area... Read more
Training accident, ended up on starboard side... Read more
Wirestrike reported. Piloted by former ABC7 pilot Rich Westra, the accident tragically killing his wife Kelly Westra.... Read more
“A Mil Mi-8 helicopter of the Federal Security Service, which crashed in bad weather in Sakhalin on Tuesday, has been found burning.”. The deceased were all Majors – Anatoly Kozlov, Artem Trushko, Alexander Sleptsov, and Mykola Dudrov... Read more
The two fatalities on a licence re-validation flight were owner Bevan Bertholdt (39) and flight instructor Boeta Austin... Read more
Story dated 24-Nov-10 but does not refer to incident date. We assume fairly recent, hence filing this as 01-Nov. Windshield distorted and then blew out a section. Bird strike not involved.... Read more
The helicopter was flying for the Wing County Power Line Services. 4POB, 1 fatal (later named as Gary L. Bland, 52, from Georgia) and 3 to Ruby Memorial Hospital with unknown injuries... Read more
FAA report “heavy landing”... Read more
report that they have found debris scattered over 150 meters, which would indicate, according to the two crews, a significant impact with the ground. Reports of three bodies so far located in the impact zone.... Read more
The pilot lost control of the helicopter whilst manoeuvring at low speed to approach a hilltop landing site in quite strong wind conditions. The investigation determined that an error of judgement or perception led the pilot to attempt a downwind approach. A combination of human factors was thought to have contributed to the accident.... Read more
Criminals fired at a helicopter from the Military Police (MP) The police returned fire and wounded three suspects.... Read more
Gene Monteleone, 55, of Texas said he was flying his Jet Ranger helicopter from Waynesboro at about 8:15 a.m. Monday when the caution light came on.... Read more
HeliHub.com understands this EC155 suffered a blade strike. We are aware that it was roaded from Blackbushe Airport to Eurocopter UK at Oxford on 25th October 2010, so for the time being we will assume this was the date. Please email any update to safety@helihub.com... Read more
Passengers included pop singer Anna-Maria Zimmermann (21), who came to fame in Germany’s third series of “Pop Idol”. Also on board were her manager Alexander Frömelt (37) , her tour manager Dominik Schlick (31) and the pilot Mario M. (50)... Read more
Crashed during landing attempt on mountain... Read more
Fatalities were Charles Stisted, 47, chief executive of the Guards Polo Club at Windsor, owner Ian Wooldridge, 51 of demolition company Wooldridge Group and the pilot was Anthony Joseph Smith, a former RAF and Army pilot... Read more
Out-of-control golf buggy struck tail rotor during start-up... Read more
Emergency generator light turned on and the pilot reported the smell of electrical smoke in the cockpit,... Read more
The pilots reported a technical problem in the chopper shortly after take off and landed in emergency condition... Read more
The reason for the forced landing was the increase of pressure in the oil system gearbox rotary-wing aircraft.... Read more
FAA prelim report stated that this R22 “ended up on its side”. We note that we have another report dated 29th October of the same type of helicopter in Prescott AZ – perhaps the FAA got the wrong date on this report?... Read more
Landing mishap near Lake Boksjön, east of Tärnaby where helicopter with 2 POB met bad weather and force landed into a quagmire. The aircraft settled deep into the ground, resulting in damage to the helicopter.... Read more
Port skid collapsed on landing... Read more
** WARNING the photo in the first link contains a disturbing on-scene image **. Early reports gave a figure of 8 fatalities, but the final figure was 9 – Leonardo Andrés Pérez Arteaga, 29 (pilot), Manuel Montes RÃos Heder, 27 (co-pilot), Jonathan Gutierrez Baeza, 23, José Luis Salas Ventura, 32, Aaron Ortiz Gerardo Olvera, 26,... Read more
No emergency call made, pilot was only one on board. Ended up on a road in a very wooded area. Deceased named as Joseph Schuengel, age 47, 17 year veteran MSHP officer... Read more
Instructor Jason Wright, 29, of Bluff, and his pupil Allan Munro, 67, of Avondale, 75km north of Invercargill, were found with the submerged but intact Robinson 22 2km southeast of Colyers Island inside the harbour, ending a 24 hour search.... Read more
The pilot and one passenger onboard walked away unharmed after the aircraft tipped over as a result of a heavy landing... Read more
The FBI is investigating a report that a hunter fired gunshots at a helicopter in north-central Idaho, hitting it twice.... Read more
Helicopter used to spray herbicide crashed after refueling and chemical hoses were not disconnected before takeoff... Read more
Helicopter was involved in scouring the property to map mustering locations when the accident happened... Read more
Low level training exercise and right skid snagged the ground causing the helicopter to imbalance and turn over onto its side.... Read more
Accident during take-off phase... Read more
Pilot encountered bad weather, became disoriented and gradually descended to impact point with trees. Location was close to mountain biker track and sorme passing riders raised the alarm... Read more
Field landing and rudder struck trees... Read more
LAPD helicopter put down in a park at 2.50am after a warning light came on. Engineers called to the scene cleared it for onward flight approx three hours later... Read more
Helicopter was involved in lifting a 20m tree trunk... Read more
Emergency landing shortly after taking off from Marinovka en route for Saratov... Read more
A helicopter belonging to Mountain Air heading towards Gorkha from Kathmandu Wednesday afternoon made a crash landing at Okharpauwa of Nuwakot due to technical problems.... Read more
After hitting a bird with the main rotor blade, the passenger and pilot were not hurt. It took crews a few hours to remove the chopper and return it to the Bristow Academy in Titusville.... Read more
Pilot believed he had a mechanical failure and tried and pick a spot to land for an emergency landing... Read more
Main blade hit electicity line pole during take-off... Read more
The pilot and shooter were on a deer recovery operation when the helicopter went down in the Preservation area of Fiordland about 6pm.... Read more
Emergency landing made after chip light illuminated... Read more
Tail rotor struck canvas umbrella while hovering at low level... Read more
The pilot over-controlled the aircraft on experiencing dynamic rollover during take off. The aircraft became airborne and began rotating, before impacting the ground and sustaining serious damage to the tail. The pilot was unaware of the damage and continued the flight although he subsequently landed without further mishap.... Read more
Report says this “crashed and burned”... Read more
Stuck throttle and landed OK after circling airport for 40 minutes... Read more
Foreign object debris struck main blades on takeoff. Landed without further incident... Read more
Controlled impact into terrain, foggy conditions reported... Read more
Helicopter was involved in lifting operations when it struck a mountain ropeway... Read more
Eyewitness reported seeing smoke coming from helicopter as it was flying.... Read more
Helicopter ended up on its port side after the pilot was reported as saying he lost power... Read more
A DeKalb County police officer and a civilian instructor were injured when the police department’s helicopter crashed in Covington during a re-certification flight.... Read more