Schiebel Camcopter S-100 Water Impact
French Navy S-100 accident: A previously identified failure mode occured prior to the completion of a roll-out of a product improvement.
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Suspected Drone Strike on Helicopter
A S300C suffered a suspected drone strike over North Carolina.
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Schiebel Camcopter S-100 Engine Failure Results in Baltic Crash
Investigators focus on the engine in an S-100 UAS loss over the Baltic.
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Helicopter / Drone Mid Air Collision Filming Off-Road Race
There was a lack of coordination between helicopter and drone operations filming an off-road race. See the video running up to a Mid Air Collision.
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Dynamic Rollover During HESLO at Gusty Mountain Site
A 1.1 t load was moved to pylon 151, just the wrong pylon 151. A gust caught the helicopter at the worst moment, just as the longline became taut.
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Drone Pilot Injured in US Prison Geo-fence Incident
A drone demo in a prison car park resulted in a LOC-I and injury due to the geo-fence around the site.
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USAF MQ-9A Reaper Lever Confusion: Human Factors
We look at a takeoff accident to a USAF UAS where the engine condition lever was retarded instead of the flaps being retracted.
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Inspection UAS Collides with PNG LNG Export Jetty
A quadcopter collided with the jetty it was inspecting as the remote pilot tried to maintain visual contact from inside the wheelhouse of a pilot vessel 100 m away.
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Drone / Helicopter Mid Air Collision over LA City Hall ‘Probable’ Say NTSB
“An inflight collision with a hard object of polycarbonate construction, with size and features consistent with that of a small UAS (drone)” say NTSB.
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Drone Operation Injury
NTSB examine an injury caused after the loss of control of a UAS during a university demonstration.
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Software Bug and High Winds Down Drone
AAIB comment that new operators with little, or no, previous aviation experience are developing procedures for small un-certified UAS which presents a challenge to ensure safe operation of this expanding area of aviation.
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Drone Goes Walkabout: Hemispherical Human Factors Hiccup
An ATSB report into an Australian RPAS/UAS LOC accident highlights the importance of HF in ground station design and of data entry verification.
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Facebook Aquila Drone Accident: Gust Induced Structural Failure
The innovative 140ft span Facebook Aquila solar powered internet relay drone had an in-flight structural failure due to gusts during its first landing say NTSB. Flight control system changes are planned.
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AAIB Annual Safety Review for 2015
The UK AAIB has published their Annual Safety Review in a radical new format. It has analysis of investigations, an overview of recommendations and articles on the use of drones and the time needed for investigations.
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EASA Issue Drone Safety Risk Portfolio and Analysis
EASA issues a series of reports on drone/UAS/RPAS safety.
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UAS View of Lomond Offshore Installation
UAS View of Lomond Offshore Installation Stunning ‘drone’* footage of the BG Group Lomond installation in the Central North Sea has been uploaded to YouTube by Gary Hay. Alongside the platform, joined by a ‘bridge’, is the semi-submersible accommodation vessel Borgholm Dolphin, hence the helideck on Lomond is marked as closed due to the infringement of the
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Firefighters Turn Hose on Drone
Firefighters Turn Hose on Drone With the continued popularity and sales of camera equipped ‘drones’* it was probably inevitable that this would happen, but one drone operator John Thompson got more than he bargained for while filming a house fire on 4 June 2015 in the US. The firemen turned the hose on the drone… The ‘attack’ happens
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UK MAA NPA for RPAS
UK Military Aviation Authority Notice of Proposed Amendment on Remotely Piloted Air Systems The UK MAA has issued an NPA as part of the consultation on a change to the MAA Regulatory Publications (MRPs) to cover the better integration of RPAS. The MAA introduce the NPA as follows: The aim of the review of RPAS regulations
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House of Lords Inquiry into Civil RPAS
RPAS (or Unmanned Air Vehicle / Systems [UAV/UAS]) are a hot topic internationally at the moment. The House of Lords, the upper house of the British Parliament, is to hold an inquiry into the civil use of remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) in the European Union. Written evidence is sought by Friday 19 September 2014.
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Taranis
Taranis The UK designed and built Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator, the BAE Systems Taranis, first flew on 10 August 2013. Named after the Celtic god of thunder, this £185 million programme, involving BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, GE Aviation Systems (formerly Smiths), QinetiQ and the Ministry of Defence (MOD). Powered by a modified Rolls-Royce Adour
Aerossurance joins ADS
In addition to being an already active member of Oil & Gas UK, the trade association that speaks for the whole UK offshore sector, Aerossurance has been accepted as a member of ADS, the trade body advancing UK Aerospace, Defence, Security & Space Industries, globally. Follow us on LinkedIn for our latest updates.
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BP’s Unmanned First in USA
BP’s Unmanned First in USA BP have commenced the first commercial use of an Unmanned Air Systems (UAS) over land in the US. Contractor AeroVironment performed the first flight for BP in Alaska on 8 June 2014 under a ‘Certificate of Waiver’ approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). While commercial UAS are in use in
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