Bear Paws Claw Reindeer Herding Bell 206
A reminder for care when operating helicopters from soft ground.
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NTSB Confirms United Airlines Maintenance Error After 12 Years
The 3rd United A320 tachometer cross-connection maintenance error to emerge in just 5 months.
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HEMS AW109S Collided With Radio Mast During Night Flight
The helicopter crashed after clipping a radio mast on a ridge line just 5 minutes into a positioning flight back from an inter-hospital transfer at night.
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NASCAR Driver and Pilot Died in Mooney M20C Fuel Starvation FOD Accident
NTSB found FOD (shop debris) in the fuel selector.
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Alaskan AS350 CFIT With Unrestrained Cargo in Cabin
CFIT on approach to land in flat light conditions on a glacier. Unrestrained cargo resulted in serious injuries to the pilot. This and an accident the next day have resulted in more attention on the requirements for stowing cargo.
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R44 Force Lands After Improper Repair
An improper repair failed and the pilot was faced with “a confusing set of cues and no definitive procedures for corrective action” say NTSB. The pilot was “was shocked at how quickly everything transpired”.
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S2000 Runway Excursion at the Start of the Take Off Roll
A lapse activating the nose wheel steering, influenced by flying two different types.
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Fukushima Police Leonardo AW139 Accident: JTSB Update
We translate the JTSB’s Feb 2020 and Jan 2021 updates on this accident.
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Fatal MD600 Collision With Powerline During Construction
The pilot was seriously injured and two linesmen were fatally injured when this helicopter stuck a powerline during its construction.
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USAF T-6A Texan II Lost in Inverted Stall
Fixation and a failure to initiate a memory drill, coupled with unintended entry into IMC and spatial disorientation feature in this military training accident.
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S-61N Damaged During Take Off When Swashplate Seized Due to Corrosion
An omission in the Maintenance Programme, perceived time pressures to complete the flight due to limited battery power, an insufficient controls check and corrosion during shipping from the Falklands resulted in a dramatic dockside drama.
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Emirates B777 Runway Impact During Attempted Go-Around, 3 August 2016, Dubai: Accident Report
The final report into a dramatic accident in Dubai featured automation and emergency response aspects.
EC135 Main Rotor Actuator Tie-Bar Failure
An accident to a police helicopter in the Caribbean resulted in a worldwide check for corrosion in flying control actuators.
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Be Careful If You Step Outside!: Unoccupied Rotors Running AS350 Takes Off
Leaving a rotors running helicopter unoccupied, relying on collective friction and a steady wind, might just be a bigger risk than the flight itself…
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B1900D Window Blowout
An incident in South Africa is a reminder on procedures for operating the B1900D on the ground.
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AAR Bell 214ST Accident in Afghanistan in 2012: NTSB Report
The post crash fire defeated the investigation into a flying control malfunction on an AAR Bell 214ST operating in Afghanistan.
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Norwegian HEMS Landing Wirestrike
Only when looking beyond the completely obvious cause and effect can you see that the accident is more complicated. Obstacle mapping and procedures for approaching ad hoc sites of note.
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A109E Window Loss Highlights Maintenance Lessons
The maintenance organisation now treats window replacement as a Critical Maintenance Task and has improved its planning process to ensure better supervision. It also shows its important start have prompt, independent investigations.
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Saab 340 Runway Excursion Exposes Safety Management Issues
Highlights the risk of awarding to the lowest bidder and relying only on an AOC being in place. Investigators call for regulators to focus on the practical application and performance of SMS (not shelfware documents).
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EC130B4 Destroyed After Ice Ingestion – Engine Intake Left Uncovered
Within a year a US HEMS operator repeats a Canadian police accident.
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Costa Rican C208B Stalled While Trying To Avoid High Ground
Two C208Bs were carrying foreign tourists. Aircraft 1 took off and turned east, aircraft 2 carried north and lost control trying to avoid the rising ground.
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Fatal Powerline Human External Cargo Flight
The long line abraded against a power cable and the two linesmen died in a fall from 100ft.
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BK117B2 Air Ambulance Flameout: Fuel Transfer Pumps OFF, Caution Lights Invisible in NVG Modified Cockpit
Dimming the NVG compatible cockpit lighting for a flight at dusk meant the fuel transfer pump caution lights were invisible. The failure to turn these pumps on was only evident after flameout. We wrote of this problem 14 months earlier after a NZ HEMS accident.
Fatal Taiwanese Night SAR Mission
A winchman and casualty died when they impacted the sea at speed during hoisting at night with a helicopter that lacked autohover.
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