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26 Mar, 12This news item is part of the accident data provided by HeliHub.com on this site. Information provided in this update may potentially be incomplete or inaccurate as we frequently post these stories only a very short time after the accident has occurred. Users of HeliHub.com are advised to carry out their own checks and searches, along with reading the reports online we provide links to on the safety page for this incident.
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Incident summary – Window blew out in flight, apparently causing door to open. Safe precautionary landing made in local park, not long after take off from Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport on EMS flight
This accident is reported in our Safety pages at 23-Mar-12 C-GYNN AgustaWestland AW139 Toronto, Canada
FURTHER NOTE
Only possibly linked, as it is a different type, but another AgustaWestland helicopter made a precautionary landing after a window popped out in late January, less than two months prior to the Ornge AW139 incident above. The latter incident occurred to a brand new AW119Ke on a test flight out of the Agusta Aerospace plant in Philadelphia
see 27-Jan-12 N311YS AgustaWestland AW119 Philadelphia, US-Pennsylvania
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