Training flight. Helicopter ended up on its port side N94WC Helicopter Crash Henderson Texas pic.twitter.com/Jva9s6TYfm — FSX Aviation (@FSXAviation3) June 7, 2022 ... Read more
FAA: Crashed between hangars and runway while attempting to hover, ending up on its starboard side Cameron police confirm a helicopter crash occurred at Cameron Municipal Airport earlier this afternoon. Cameron Police Chief Lonnie Gosch said three people were on board and this could've been a training flight. Chief Gosch says Texas DPS is on... Read more
During herding operation, pilot landed and exited the aircraft with the blades still turning. Sufficient inertia in the rotor system caused the helicopter to fall onto its side... Read more
Helicopter descended from the sky in multiple pieces – tail rotor gearbox area separated from the boom, and then the boom separated from the cabin area – see video 2 POB received fatal injuries. Student pilot was named here as Ty Wallis, while the instructor was named here as Lora Trout... Read more
Tail strike on landing at hospital helipad... Read more
Autorotations to a taxiway, and damaged a taxiway light... Read more
1 fatal injury of the four on board when the helicopter came down on the edge of a wood nr Livingston. Fatality named in this press report as 54-year-old Daniel King of Livingston while the survivors were named as pilot 73-year-old John Martin and passengers 26-year-old Braydon King and 23-year-old Brocton King At approximately 11:45... Read more
FAA – Training flight for power recovery practice. Crashed over safety area on runway. ... Read more
FAA: Pilot lost control while practicing on a private ranch, and rolled onto its side on landing. No injuries reported to the 2 POB Helicopter is registered to an address in the town of the incident... Read more
Controlled emergency landing after being unable to recover correctly from practice autorotation landing... Read more
After performing some maintenance work on an amateur build helicopter, the pilot carried out a test flight. In a low hover there was an explosion which caused the helicopter to crash from low level and subsequently burn out. Pilot to hospital with burns. Helicopter believed to be a CHR (Canadian Home Rotors) Safari 400 from... Read more
FAA : Helicopter lost lift due to density altitude, crashed to the ground and rolled over. Pilot and two passengers had minor injuries... Read more
Bird strike damaged stabiliser shortly after take-off... Read more
FAA report “forced landing in a field”... Read more
Main blades struck port horizontal stabiliser during run-on landing on grass. No injuries to pilot or 2 passengers... Read more
Loss of power on take off, autorotation into field. FAA report substantially damaged. No injuries to 3POB... Read more
Sketchy details but both occupants received fatal injuries, named here as pilot Zane Whitesides, 31, and passenger Zack Pfeuffer, 32... Read more
Helicopter clipped powerlines during the take-off phase and made a heavy emergency landing on highway 77. Nearby neighbours moved the helicopter off the road onto the grass verge. Skids splayed out, but rotor blades seemingly untouched and helicopter remained upright. 3 POB not injured... Read more
Main rotor struck tail boom during autorotation training. Instructor and student not injured... Read more
Three Texas Parks and Wildlife employees died in the accident as they surveyed the landscape for desert bighorn sheep. The pilot, who was a private contractor for the state agency, was taken to El Paso for medical treatment. The victims were named by Texas Parks and Wildlife as Wildlife Biologist Dewey Stockbridge, Fish and Wildlife... Read more
Tail rotor struck tree. No injury reported to 1 POB... Read more
During take off the student pilot experienced dynamic rollover.... Read more
The aircraft lost power and struck power lines while apparently making an emergency landing near to the intersection of South Presa and East Southcross street, San Antonio, US-Texas. The aircraft received substantial damage. There were no reports of serious injuries to the occupants. – Photo... Read more
Two Robinson R22s engaged in herding operation. Rotor blade of N7189D hit skid of N74512. Both occupants of N7189D fatally injured... Read more
Two Robinson R22s engaged in herding operation. Rotor blade of N7189D hit skid of N74512 Passenger in N74512 seriously injured... Read more
Date was recorded as 04-Jun-17 when helicopter wreckage was found, but as reports state the pilot’s family were looking “in the middle of the night” for him, and he was last seen on 03-Jun-17, we believe the accident date would most likely have been 03-Jun-17. NTSB also tweeted on 4th June that they were attending... Read more
FAA reported substantially damaged after hard landing on training flight – aircraft operated by Bell Helicopter Training Academy... Read more
During the approach, the helicopter pitched forward, and the pilot moved the cyclic aft to compensate for the forward pitch. Shortly thereafter, the helicopter rolled to the right and entered a spin to the right. The pilot then attempted to land the helicopter, but it impacted terrain and rolled onto its left side. Pilot Ed... Read more
Maj. Gen. Jeffrey N. Colt, commanding general, First Army Division West, released the following statement on Tuesday 24th: “It is with a heavy heart that I announce the death of four First Army Division West Soldiers as a result of a UH-60L helicopter crash that happened Monday evening sometime after 5:49 p.m. The accident is... Read more
Force landing in field... Read more
Clipped tree and crashed to the ground during filming operations. Wayne Bomstad received minor injuries. Pilot Jacob Oliver was still in hospital four days later according to this report.... Read more
Struck lower tail fin on concrete curb while repositioning after refuelling... Read more
Force landing in field. 3 POB. Minor damage... Read more
Force landed in field. Damage level unknown... Read more
Crashed from low level during agricultural ops. Aircraft destroyed... Read more
Flight nurse fell from helicopter to her death during hoist operations. Named as Kristin McLain... Read more
Rolled over on landing... Read more
Bird strike while conducting low level search at night over a lake. Helicopter landed safely with a hole in the windshield... Read more
On patrol at 600′ AGL flying south along Interstate 45 over the Trinity River struck two ducks. Landed safely with minor damage... Read more
Force landed in a field, no injuries... Read more
Tail rotor strike on landing, substantially damaged... Read more
Crashed after tail rotor struck bush... Read more
Hard landing after engine failure. Photos suggest tail hit ground in field with metre high grass. Two people were on board, the pilot William Butler of Port Lavaca and Victoria Schultz of Needville – both walked away uninjured... Read more
Emergency landing in retail parking lot after bird strike... Read more
Helicopter crashed killing the 51-year old pilot at 2510 Northline Road, nr College Park Drive, later named as Michael Mims.... Read more
Substantially damaged in heavy landing – photo. Sole occupant pilot Charles Deyhle Jr was reportedly uninjured. Reportedly due to gusty conditions when trying to land on a ground handling trolley... Read more
Emergency night landing between two buildings after bird strike while ferrying a patient from Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene to Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock. A nurse was reported injured by the bird entering the helicopter... Read more
Helicopter struck trees and crashed. Helicopter is actively used for game capture, although nothing suggests it was being put to this use at the time of the accident... Read more
Port side cabin door separated and hit tail rotor. Landed with no further incident... Read more
Force landing in field at night. No apparent damage given flights reported on FlightAware.com on 23-Oct-14 and 27-Oct-14 – but incident was reported by FAA... Read more
Accident on night EMS flight just one block short of its intended landing spot at United Regional Hospital in Wichita Falls, inbound from Waurika, OK. Patient (named here as 26-year-old Buddy Rhodes) killed in the accident, and the three crew named here as pilot Zechariah Smith, flight nurse Leslie Stewart and flight paramedic Erasmus J. Vandercolff... Read more
Contacted fence on landing... Read more
Low level pipeline patrol and “lost power”. Written off. On board were pilot Michael Orlowsky. 48, of West Plains, Missouri; Kevin Douglas Smothers, 44, of Minnesota; and Ronald Justin Dietz, 28, of Sinton. Orlowsky and Smothers were described as being in critical condition with no word on Dietz Halo Flight attended with a Bell 407... Read more
Crashed on approach after pilot lost control... Read more
Take off accident at David Wayne Hooks Airport... Read more
Crashed in unknown circumstances... Read more
Substantially damaged in field landing... Read more
Substantially damaged during autorotation landing... Read more
Emergency landing in park, possibly due to mechanical issue... Read more
Rotor separated on landing... Read more
Both occupants injured – the owner’s son on a training flight with an instructor. Heavily damaged... Read more
Engine malfunction at low level while hog hunting. Substantially damaged in field landing... Read more
Tail strike on landing at 20.05 local... Read more
Tail strike on landing... Read more
Emergency landing after pilot suspected (wrongly as it happens) an engine fire. Helicopter ended up on its side. 3 POB all injured and to hospital. US Customs & Border Patrol helicopter was reportedly on low level work... Read more
Helicopter crashed and ended up on its side... Read more
Emergency landing after damage to main rotor blades. Helicopter was patrolling very close to the Mexican border when it was reportedly struck by rocks launched from the Mexican side. Safe landing, no injuries... Read more
Force landing in field during aerial application. Damage level not stated... Read more
During a practice autorotation, after the helicopter landed, it slid about 8-10 feet forward and the skids sunk into soft terrain and rolled over. No injuries reported to 2 POB... Read more
Joshua Fitts, 34, of West Hurricane, Utah, was killed about 12:20 p.m. when the tail rotor of the McDonnell Douglas helicopter crashed after clipping a transmission line pulley, called a sheave... Read more
Lost power – force landing in field... Read more
Two workers have fallen to their deaths when a cable suspending them hit a power line they were inspecting – the pair were later reported here as 25-year-old David Edward Oliveira of Turlock, CA and 26-year-old Christoper Geoffrey Breed of Moscow, ID. Helicopter landed safely with no damage... Read more
Crashed and burnt out. 2 Medevac’d to hospital... Read more