Logging operations – it appears the pilot released the logs, indicating he knew of a problem prior to the crash. Witnesses then saw a rotor separate from the helicopter followed by it turning upside down and falling to the ground. Pilot was named as William Bart Colantuono, 54, of Indialantic, FL... Read more
Pilot allowed rotor speed to decay too low on final approach – hit ground hard and rolled onto its starboard side... Read more
Helicopter lost contact with ATC and was not found for over two days. Impact of the crash killed both on board. The pilot was Margarita Afanaskina, champion of various helicopter flying competitions (see tribute from Russian Ministry of Sport). Passenger was senior forestry official named Sergei Medvedev... Read more
Crashed and consumed by fire, killing all three on board. One was named as Krzysztof Mielewczyk, husband of a member of the Polish Parliament... Read more
An instructor and his trainee student have survived a helicopter crash in a paddock with only minor injuries. R22 ended up on its starboard side. Student reportedly moved the engine mixture control instead of the carburettor heat control,... Read more
Emergency landing on hillside. Helicopter needed roading out for repair. The helicopter was en route to a brush fire in the city of La Verne... Read more
57-year-old volunteer Shane Krogen fell about 50 feet from a helicopter during a marijuana-eradication effort in Tulare County and died... Read more
Soldier abseiling down rope died after falling to the ground. Reports in subsequent days suggest the rope was intentionally cut after the helicopter suffered a major malfunction and had to make an emergency landing to save the 13 on board.... Read more
Technical issues prevented take-off and required engineer next day... Read more
Tour helicopter struck by a bird, shattering the windshield. The only passenger on the aircraft suffered minor injuries. The aircraft landed safely at Burns Field in Hanapepe. Registration and type quoted by FAA do not tie up – N798JH was an AS350BA previously used by the company and no longer current.... Read more
Operator told the press “debris flew into the main rotor blades causing some damage to the aircraft”. FAA report says “tail rotor separated from aircrxaft”... Read more
Helicopter grounded after pilot found hole (possibly from a bullet) in a rotor blade on pre-flight inspection... Read more
1 injured from 9 passengers and 3 crew on board.... Read more
Crashed after reported engine failure. No injuries... Read more
Substantially damaged in force landing on road... Read more
Crashed and consumed by fire, killing all three on board. Photos of wreckage show it half buried, implying significant vertical speed at impact.... Read more
A Canadian Coast Guard Bo105 operating from the research icebreaker Amundsen crashed at night into the Arctic Ocean, killing all three on board. They were named as Marc Thibault, commanding officer of the CCGS Amundsen, Daniel Dubé, helicopter pilot and Klaus Hochheim, an Arctic scientist affiliated with the University of Manitoba. CADORS 2013C3920... Read more
Helicopter in open field on its side, substantial damage. 2 POB not injured. “The pilot in command made an abrupt turn to avoid a massive bird strike” and was “unable to recover complete control of the helicopter before it struck terrain,” said IDOT spokeswoman Paris Ervin in this report. Pilot was Steve Young, bureau chief... Read more
Landed on an IED during training flight, blowing one skid off. Helicopter caught fire. 2 POB were U.S. Army CW4 Thomas “Andy” Miller and Afghan air force Lt. Massoud Islamkhil – both were saved by a Mi-17 crew... Read more
Crew of three stranded by weather on a volcano after freezing rain left thick ice on their helicopter. The three were identified as pilot Sam Egli, USGS geophysicist John Paskievitch and University of Alaska-Fairbanks researcher Taryn Lopez... Read more
Post-flight inspection revealed remains of small bird on barrier screen for oil cooler inlet. No damaged identifed.... Read more
Taking off after refuelling, banked hard and crashed into the ground. The pilot, 34-year-old Shane Templeton, was ejected from the aircraft and sustained serious head injuries.... Read more
Hit powerlines and crashed, killing all three on board. The victims were identified as William Brownfield, 61, of Caballo, Duane Zietlow, 78, of Elephant Butte and the pilot, Ebenezer Priebe, 34, of Tucson, Ariz. [and before anyone asks, “Truth or Consequences” is indeed a town name]... Read more
68-year old man, named as Robert Davis, fell 30m from a winch harness and died while being winched on board after injuring his ankle. Press reports say he weighed between 120 – 140 kg, and this will be taken into account during the investigations.... Read more
Force landing. No injuries... Read more
Substantially damaged in crash shortly after takeoff, ending up on its port side. Both POB to hospital... Read more
Lost power – force landing in field... Read more
Force landing, substantial damage – skids completely collapsed and tail boom separated. Pilot with minor injuries and five passengers uninjured... Read more
Emergency night landing in school field after experiencing unusual rotor blade vibration. Attended to by engineer next day on site. Pilot named by CBS47 as Johnny Reyes... Read more
Ditched into lake on water sampling operations. Registration not fully confirmed, but believed correct. Floats deployed, but helicopter turned over, so all you could see afterwards were the floats which suspended the helicopter... Read more
Descended into powerlines in high density altitude with 4 POB... Read more
Heavy landing during a training exercise and caught fire. 4 POB unharmed... Read more
CHC helicopter reported ditched in North Sea , 18 POB reported with 14 rescued and 4 fatalities named as Duncan Munro, 46, from Bishop Auckland, Sarah Darnley, 45, from Elgin, Gary McCrossan, 59, from Inverness, and George Allison, 57, from Winchester.... Read more
Accident at a field near the Byeskeälven river northwest of Fällfors, Skellefteå, at midday earlier today. The pilot and his passenger both survived the accident, and they were later transported to hospitals in Skellefteå and Umeå. The helicopter, one of the oldest in Sweden, was destroyed in a post-impact fire. Additional reporting from Nordic Rotors... Read more
Calgary Police EC120 – emergency landing in field. Repaired on site by engineer. no damage. Not clear which of Calgary Police’s pair of EC120s involved – they fly C-FCPS (1468) and C-FHMC (1050)... Read more
F0rce landing in corn field. Helicopter was involved in powerline work... Read more
Lighning strike, safe subsequent landing, but aircraft reportedly needs repair to the approx value of US$ 8 Million... Read more
Post maintenance test flight. Pilot saw the low oil pressure alert when flying at 1,200ft AGL and performed an autorotation for landing on the Marginal Tiete Avenue which was busy with traffic. While trying to avoid the traffic, the landing flare caused the helicopter to hit a low concrete wall, causing teh tail boom to separate.... Read more
4 POB injured in heavy landing due to loss of visual clues in brown-out conditions. EMS operation... Read more
Engine failure, autorotation, rolled over on landing... Read more
Plastic bag blown up into tail rotor. EMS Helicopter roaded out from landing site... Read more
Struck powerlines... Read more
Agricultural ops, clipped wires, pilot Daniel Lee landed the helicopter with “moderate damage”, but reported back in service the next day... Read more
Precautionary landing due to unforeseen weather... Read more
In-flight mechanical problem which forced the pilot to make an unscheduled landing in the forest. No serious injuries. No details on level of damage – if any – to helicopter. No details on helicopter type... Read more
During cruise, the pilot reported rough running and partial power loss. The pilot conducted an auto-rotation into the fields of Northcote High School... Read more
Two injured in heavy landing in cemetary. Tail boom sliced by main blades, two occupants injured and to hospital... Read more
Main blades struck rock... Read more
Helicopter chartered by survey company Geotec, working on behalf of Petromanas Energy, crashed at Berat – 125 miles SE of Tirana.... Read more
Ditched near offshore rig – the pilot and two passengers had minor injuries and were airlifted to Thibodaux General Medical Center for treatment. Helicopter destroyed – see photo after recovery onto ship... Read more
Operating for US Dept of Justice, and with Harney County Deputy Sheriff Chris Nisbet on board, the pilot was involved in a federal, state and county marijuana eradication program. Reported engine failure. Tail boom chopped, port skid collapsed, helicopter on port side... Read more
Lower chip detector plug was found out of the locked detent position and had slightly ?backed out? of the housing. This condition will cause a disruption of oil flow through the transmission oil pump and therefore a loss of oil pressure. Enroute from Page Municipal Airport (KPGA) to Kane County Hospital in Kanab, Utah... Read more
“Christopherus 9” helicopter found with 9mm bullet hole through rotor blade. Date/location of incident unknown, but 12-Aug-13 the most likely date according to report and given location is base of this helicopter – Meidling Heliport, Vienna... Read more
During takeoff, the pilot lost control of the helicopter. To avoid another aircraft to his right, he turns left. The blades hit the ground and the helicopter came to rest on its starboard side... Read more
FAA report that this was on “hauling ops” but this video and the caption below suggest it was on firefighting work... Read more
Single engine failure. Three crew and one passenger not injured.... Read more
Emergency landing on the beach, no damage... Read more
An RAF helicopter was forced to land in a field in Conwy county as a precaution after encountering tail rotor issues... Read more
Engine fire. YouTube video shows parked S76, rotors stationary, with smoke billowing from the engine compartment. Two crew departed the aircraft without injury – no passengers appeared to be on board... Read more
Shot down by Yemeni tribesmen, complaining about an oil pipeline. The helicopter crashed and all eight occupants died... Read more
There were two people aboard – a pilot, Artur Assadulin, and a passenger, Vasyl Zazulchak, a citizen of Ukraine. Under conditions of poor visibility, the helicopter crashed into a hill.... Read more
Tail boom severed by main blades during take-off. Pilot reported here as Dick Sluke... Read more
Hard landing, reported as no serious injuries to 22 POB... Read more
NTSB investigator Clint Johnson says the helicopter had an engine failure, landed in trees and rolled over. Sling load operations. Pilot not injured... Read more
After touching down, two of the three passengers got out of the helicopter while the engine and rotor were still running. The passenger on the right removed his gear from the cargo bay and proceeded to the front of the helicopter where he was struck by the rotating rotor blade. CADORS 2013C3288... 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
Details to follow. CADORS 2013P1182... Read more
HH-60 from MCAS Kadena crashed and caught fire near MCAS Hansen. 3 serious injuries and 1 fatal – named as Tech. Sgt. Mark A Smith... Read more
Helicopter ditched in shallow water. 3 POB exited safely. En route from Elba to Bologna. Italian pilot age 44, passengers were on Turkish and Portuguese passports.... Read more
Crashed into Braga Ranch lettuce field near Chualar River Road in Gonzales after reported engine failure. Pilot Doug Walker was not injured. Helicopter ended up on its side, tail boom cut by main blades... Read more
The helicopter contacted the ground going sideways and rolled on its starboard side. The main-rotor blades contacted the ground and broke. The crew was able to shut the engines off and exit with minor injuries. There was no fire. CADORS 2013P1171... Read more
Firefighting helicopter. Ended up on its starboard side with little apparent vertical impact (=roll-over?). 2 POB, 1 with minor injuries, 1 uninjured... Read more
Smoke in cockpit, force landed, helicopter destroyed in ensuing fire. Pilot uninjured. Time approx 10.30pm and location reported as close to (or at?) the MIRA test track.... Read more
Landing gear collapse... Read more
Emergency landing at Izmir Ataturk Stadium after suspected engine problems... Read more
