During an aerial transport, the crew wanted to land near the station of the Bannalp cableway to pick up a container deposited there. During the approach, the helicopter’s tail rotor came in contact with a cable of a small transport cableway. The pilot was able to land the helicopter.... Read more
External load operations (carrying food and supplies to a mining camp in Colchagua) at 12,700ft amsl but only 50m above the ground when an engine problem caused pilot to jettison the load and take evasive action, descending to the right intending flying down a gorge. Sadly the pilot, named as Francisco Bismara from Argentina, died... Read more
Emergency landing onto a mountain pass road and rolled over on landing... Read more
Fell onto port side during landing... Read more
Crashed and completely burnt out, killing pilot Walter Sulca Ramos and co-pilot Walter Quevedo Mestanza. Weather of blizzards likely to be a factor... Read more
At touch down the pilot experienced strong vibrations with damages to the helicopter... Read more
Crew injured alighting from helicopter in snowy conditions... Read more
Blades struck striker plate on landing... Read more
Crashed on firefighting ops while filling up the water bucket... Read more
Overturned while loading water from a stream during firefighting operations. Aircraft destroyed ... Read more
Autorotated into field during external load operations... Read more
Helicopter had been chartered by Statnett for work on high voltage power lines. Rotor blade struck pylon and became unstable, crashing to the ground. Passenger worked for Infratek, subcontractor to Statnett. Pilot was named as Karl Gustav Backlund.... Read more
Wreckage reported 6th April. Two bodies “may have been there a week” – thus date of accident unclear... Read more
Two contractor workers were injured – one critically – when a helicopter winching cable struck an overhead powerline, sparking a fireball which engulfed the men.... Read more
Bird strike. Returned to base... Read more
7-Sep-09 I-NERY Eurocopter SA315B Mont Blanc, Italy... Read more
9-Jul-09 VT- Eurocopter SA315B Amarnath Caves, Jammu & Kashmir, India... Read more
