HF Lessons from an AS365N3+ Gear Up Landing
Human factors observations from the investigation into a wheels up landing of a French Navy helicopter during training in the South Pacific.
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Distracted B1900C Wheels Up Landing in the Bahamas
After a wheels up landing the flight crew claimed they had lowered the gear. The evidence disagreed.
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Load Lost Due to Misrigged HESLO Under Slung Load Control Cable
A misrigged release unit control cable on a Japanese AS350 chaffed and released the load while manoeuvring.
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B1900D Emergency Landing: Maintenance Standards & Practices
The TSB report posses many questions on the management and oversight of aircraft maintenance, competency and maintenance standards & practices. We look at opportunities for forward thinking MROs to improve their maintenance standards and practices.
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Helicopter Ops and Safety – Gulf Of Mexico 2017 Update
A decline in GOM helicopter usage continues. There were three air accidents, two fatal. all involving single engined helicopters.
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Singapore Airlines B777 41t Fuel Discrepancy Incident
We summarise a TSIB report into how an SIA B777 took off with a 41t fuel discrepancy (after a combination of aircraft system failure and erroneous verification of the fuel quantity).
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How ‘Sticky’ is Your Safety Software?
Most safety software is purely transactional with a user interface as uninspiring as on-line banking. We look at ways to make safety software more effective and inviting.
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Italian HEMS AW139 Inadvertent IMC Accident
We look at the ANSV report on a HEMS helicopter Inadvertent IMC event that ended with an AW139 colliding with a mountain in poor visibility.
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Helicopter Wildlife Netting Accidents
In May 2018 the NTSB published two reports into accidents involving helicopters attempting to carry out wildlife net captures.
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US Fatal Night HEMS Accident: Self-Induced Pressure & Inadequate Oversight
Self-induced pressure and inadequate OCC support / oversight were behind a fatal US HEMS night accident were an AS350B2 departed an unprepared landing site into IMC in which an LOC-I occurred.
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Too Rushed to Check: Misrigged Flying Controls
If you had spent 2 years rebuilding a classic Piper PA-12 you’d make the time to check the rigging of the flying controls before first flight, right? Sadly, the pilot in this fatal case study was in a rush.
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NTSB Comes Out For Gun Control
With Trump in the White House its major news when a Federal agency comes out for gun control…
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“Delivering Our Priorities”: HeliOffshore 2018 Conference Report
We report from the fourth HeliOffshore Conference and AGM on ‘Delivering Our Priorities’ for improved offshore helicopter safety.
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When Screens Go Blank: NTSB on a 787 Display Loss After a Lightning Strike
The crew of a B787-800 lost 3 of the 5 flight display screens during a climb out of LHR after a lightning strike. The current industry standard for lightning tests do not include test conditions simulating a rapid transient radiated electric field.
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Helicopter Throttle Bracket Left Unsecured After Maintenance
A pilot has a lucky escape auto-rotating into a ravine after the throttle bracket came loose 10 hours after installation.
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An AW109SP, Overweight VIPs and Crew Stress
A heavy landing after a crew were put under considerable stress during a poorly planned VIP flight booking and a hurried overweight take off.
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NTSB Probable Causes and Bad Apples
Do accident reports make the error of treating human error as a cause not a symptom?
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A330 Starts to Taxi Before Tug is Clear
ATSB say misunderstandings by the parties involved led to incorrect expectations and the aircraft beginning to taxi prior to the tug moving clear.
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C208B Force Landing After Inadequate Maintenance Fault Finding
Everyone walked away from this accident after a faulty fuel line clamp was missed during an inspection.
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Investigators Criticise Cargo Carrier’s Culture & FAA Regulation After Fatal Somatogravic LOC-I
A Shorts 360 cargo aircraft contracted to FedEx crashed in the Caribbean after the crew likely suffered a Somatogravic Illusion raising the flaps on a dark night in 2014. The lack of an FAA SMS regulation for Part 135, the operator’s poor safety culture and implications for the wider industry culture stand out in a thoughtful accident report.
Hoist Assembly Errors: SAR Personnel Dropped Into Sea
Taiwanese investigators determined that the hoist hook had been inappropriately assembled during maintenance 2 days earlier.
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Man Hit By Aircraft During Arctic Nuclear Sub Exercise
During take off from a floating ice runway, while supporting a US/UK nuclear submarine exercise in the Arctic (ICEX 2018), a civilian Twin Otter strikes a photographer alongside the runway.
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King Air 200 Smoke and Fumes From Windshield Electrical Fault
Under-torquing a screw 5 years earlier is believed to be the cause of this in flight emergency.
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Indian King Air Take Off Accident: Organisational & Training Weaknesses
Investigators point to a shelfware SMS and low crew type experience / confidence in an automation related KA200 accident that killed 10.
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USAF F-16C Crash: Engine Maintenance Error
A $22mn F-16C was lost after components were omitted when assembling an engine control unit. The USAF investigation points to a lack of ‘parts accountability’ in the overhaul shop.
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