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Civil helicopter safety n Phase Fatalities Injuries 21 AS355N EC-HAJ Coyotair Mt Santa Eufemia, nr Lurreta. Spain While filming near a quarry the helicopter hit a stone-cutting cable and crashed. 25 206L1 HC-BQP Aeromasters Nr Rofuerte, Ecuador The helicopter was forced to land in thick forest when power was lost. 28 SA341G l-OLLY Heliwest Vallonedel Gravio, Condove, Italy Crashed on take-off and was destroyed by fire. AWS AWE ER 3 369D AWM ER Ferry Ferry Test ER ER MT 1 1 N1109V Smokey Mountain Helicopters Nr Hanapepe, Hawaii, USA Engine out warning horn came on 5min after take-off in the cruise and the pilot autorotated into trees. 4 UH-1H ZK_HJH Wanguanui Aero Work 7km N of Taumarunui, New Zealand About 7km from its destination at Taumaranui the aircraft went out of control and broke up in flight. 7 OH-6A N58963 Sabre Executive Helicopters Nr Perry, West Virginia, USA Hit mountain in cloud. 11 369D N69PE E 3 Helicopters Nr Canby, Oregon, USA The engine RPM began to drop during performance of blade tracking manoeuvres in a post-maintenance test flight. Pilot attempts to increase power failed and the aircraft made a hard touchdown from autorotation, the main rotor severing the tail boom. 14 206B C-GHHN Vancouver Island Helicopters Ft St John, British Columbia, Canada AWP LR 3 About 3km from destination the rotor low RPM warning came on. The pilot autorotated but the helicopter landed on uneven ground and turned over. 14 AS350BA N555LH Liberty Helicopters Hopewell, New Jersey, USA DNP ER - - 6 The helicopter was flying a night VFR trip from Philadelphia to New York City in deteriorating weather and decided to divert to Trenton Airport When the pilot inadvertently entered IMC he elected to make an immediate precautionary landing in a field but hit high trees at the edge of the field, lost control and crashed. The weather was less than 2km with a cloudbase of 100ft. 16 369HS N4467V Trinity Helicopters Mountain View, California, USA AWP MH 1 2 The helicopter was collecting an engineer who had been working on a tower. The pilot placed one skid on the tower and the engineer boarded. Then, according to the pilot, there was a sudden wind velocity change and the helicopter suffered a dynamic roll-over. The main rotor struck the tower and the helicopter fell 90ft to the ground 20 206L4 N802DS Volusia County Sheriff Daytona Beach Intl Apt, Florida, USA CT LR - 2 After completing two training autorotations, the aircraft was flying to its base. On arrival the examiner selected a position on the runway for a power-recovery autorotation, but when the student found they were too high to autorotate to that spot he carried out an S-turn. When he began to apply power to arrest the descent, he was unable to slow down the height-loss rate, touched down hard, bounced and on the second touchdown the helicopter rocked laterally causing the main rotor to hit the ground. The aircraft then rolled over. 25 369D PT-HOV Helimar Taxi Aero Nr Recreio dos Bandeirantes, Brazil AWS LA - - 4 On approach, the chip light began to flash and the engine lost power. The pilot autorotated but hit the ground hard. 26 212 N5017H Evergreen Helicopters 13km NE of Clear, Alaska, USA AWP LA - - 3 The pilot was to collect firefighters from Clear, but on approach the pilot saw the helipad was occupied and carried out an orbit. While flying at 400ft AGL and 50kt. the pilot heard the RPM low warning horn and saw the master caution light come on, and noticed that the No 2 engine was developing low torque. He aimed to land in a close field but during the approach debris and ash were blown up and he lost visual reference, hitting trees. 26 HH-43B/F N556D Precision Helicopters , Snowstorm Peak, Nr Mullan, Idaho, USA AWE MT 2 2 The helicopter was in the hover at 150ft AGL, preparing to lift a log, when there was a bang and then a whining sound. Smoke came from the helicopter as it descended vertically into trees. 27 212 C-FXDS Canadian Helicopters 151km N of Roberval Quebec, Canada AWF Power loss followed by forced landing in trees. 28 BK117 PNP-121 Peru Police Rio Guaneros, nr. Moquegua, Peru Pvt The aircraft was on a flight to inspect earthquake damage. It went out of control and crashed. 29 206B3 N2269A Verticare/Air Trails Nr Salinas, California, USA CT Trainee pilot moved the cyclic control quite hard just after lifting off into a low hover and the main rotor hit the ground. ER MT Tl fl'JVfl 2 Mi-8 RA-24134 Nizhnevartovsk Air Enterprise 77km from Nizhnevartovsk, Russia AWP ER - 2 6 Both engines lost power from fuel starvation. There was fuel in some tanks, but the fuel feed had not been selected. The helicopter rolled over from the autorotative landing on soft ground. 3 OH-6A N539 Helicopter Associates Anson Apt, Wadesboro, North Carolina, USA Pvt LA - 1 Lost power on approach. The main rotor severed the tail boom on landing from the autorotation. The tanks held no fuel, but the gauge showed about 20kg remaining. Ferry LR Pvt AWC ER MT 12 3 Mi-2 RA-15669 Smolenskaerotrans Oriovskaya Region, Russia During touchdown on a lake shore, the tail rotor struck the ground. The helicopter rolled over into the lake. 4 Mi-2 RA-23380 Rzhecka Air Enterprise Kolsky peninsula, Russia AWP LR Pilot decided to set down on an unsurveyed spot near the river where he was delivering tourists for fishing. The surface was soft anc helicopter became briefly airborne with a steep nose-down attitude, struck the ground and rolled over. 5 S-76B HL9240 Daewoo In sea off Jinhae City, South Korea Appears to have hit a communications mast during its flight in heavy rain and fog. 8 206B3 CS-HCL Helisul Nr Beja, Portugal 10 206B2 N3298G Barry Glenn Nr Secausus, New Jersey, USA At the end of a spray run there was a loud bang and loss of tail rotor effectiveness. Pilot autorotated to a clearing, but landed very hard. It appears that a bolt worked free of the tail rotor drive shaft Thomas coupling disc, which distorted it and caused shaft fracture. The tail assembly had been changed 57h earlier. www.fliqhtinternational.com FLiGHT INTERNATIONAL 22-28 OCTOBER 2002 41
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