Source: Flight International
Inspections of main rotor components returned to Airbus Helicopters in the wake of a 2 January ditching of an H160 medium-twin off the Brazilian coast have so far found zero defects, the airframer has revealed.
Airbus Helicopters continues to accelerate testing of its new H140 following the light-twin’s launch in March last year, with cold weather trials now under way and a hot-and-high campaign set to kick off in the USA later this year.
Brazilian investigators probing the ditching of an Airbus Helicopters H160 have discovered that the rotorcraft was involved in a serious maintenance mishap a little over a week before the 2 January incident.
