Pilot reported difficulties while flying and made emergency landing in built-up area – it appeared to be circling at low level in this doorbell footage All four on board, including a baby of 2 months old, got out without further injury. Air Methods statement : Today an Air Methods owned aircraft experienced an accident in... Read more
Training accident.... Read more
Crashed during hover training... Read more
Crashed into a field shortly after take-off... Read more
Landed hard, skid broke, helicopter rolled over... Read more
Helicopter crashed in woodland under unknown circumstances at approx 9pm in evening. The sole occupant pilot was named as the FAA-registered owner Sanjay Kansara, a doctor... Read more
Helicopter was inbound from Harrisburg, PA and ended upright after a very heavy landing. The tail boom chopped off and the floats had popped out, the latter likely due to the landing impact. Pilot was the only POB. Image from Pennlive report... Read more
Tail strike on landing... Read more
Bird strike left six inch hole in chin bubble window FAA just reported this as “Stat 13” which is a callsign and not a registration, but our research identified it as N442ME... Read more
Copilot window fell out at 1000 ft agl. Corporate part 91 operation... Read more
A helicopter crashed in a backyard of a home in Silver Spring Township, US-Pennsylvania. The two occupants on-board died, no injuries on the ground reported.... Read more
Precautionary field landing, per FAA report... Read more
Heavy field landing after reported engine failure. Little/no damage to tail boom suggests mainly vertical impact, although main blades broken at the rotorhead. Aircraft is registered to James Delullo at an address in the same town as the accident location.... Read more
Substantially damaged, injuring female pilot. High vertical force impact, remained on skids... Read more
Emergency landing at airport with patient on board. Second helicopter came to take patient on to destination. Unstated technical issue, needed engineer. Operator Geisinger has six EC145s and one BK117... Read more
Helicopter calling emergency with one engine shut down and 2 POB. Cambria County Airport area. Safe night landing... Read more
69-year old pilot Carl Enlow had stopped flying tours at a fair for a refuel and to allow a relief pilot to take over. Enlow went back to speak to the pilot who relieved him when his hat blew off his head and he was struck by the rotor when he reached for it.... Read more
En route from Lehighton PA to Endecott NY with five aboard was en route when it disappeared from radar during conditions of severe thunderstorms and heavy fog. The last communication to ATC was a report around 10 pm Saturday that he was “losing altitude and would try to return to a nearby airfield.”. Wreckage was... Read more
Force landing... Read more
EMS EC145 clipped crane on hospital it was operating out of... Read more
Helicopter blown onto its side by high winds... Read more
Crashed 500m from an early morning take off, killing the sole occupant pilot – named as Doug Brigham... Read more
Skids of N369SN contacted blades of N546 at Brandywine Airport, West Chester during the Rotorfest event... Read more
Skids of N369SN contacted blades of N546 at Brandywine Airport, West Chester during the Rotorfest event... Read more
Available photos give no clues as the trees are likely to have had a significant effect on the level of damage. Weather reports include both rain and fog with visibility of less than a quarter of a mile. Pilot William Ellsworth and passenger Tighe Sulllivan were killed. The other passenger Stephen Barral survived but is... Read more
Unknown helicopter type crashed into a farm field killing the only occupant, named in the press as Kenneth M. Smith, 61.... Read more
Helicopter went AOG and was grounded for four days on a helipad which averages six EMS landings per week... Read more
Field landing after wire strike... Read more
Heavily damaged. Sole occupant was injured... Read more
Fell on its side during landing... Read more
Precautionary landing due to low visibility... Read more
Agricultural accidents. Starboard skid reportedly hit crop, Pilot got out on his own. Tail boom severed from fuselage. Pilot later named in press as 59-year-old Thomas Green of Gettysburg... Read more
Window “blew” – aircraft was only registered brand new 6 days prior, and thus likely on test flight out of AW facility at Philadelphia... Read more
Clipped a building whilst filming for reality show “Campus PD”. R44 could be seen after the crash on its nose, leaning up against a building. Cameraman Greg Jacobsen, 33, passed away 22-May after spending more than three weeks in intensive care. Pilot Robert Trent, of Friedens, Penn., was admitted to hospital in critical condition, but... Read more
Caught skid during hover practice. tipped over onto its side... Read more
F0rce landed in a field.... Read more
22-Jul-09 N61735 MD Helicopters MD369D Wharton Township, US-Pennsylvania... Read more
19-Jul-09 N25VH Robinson R44 Lancaster, US-Pennsylvania... Read more
6-Apr-09 Bell UH-1N Springfield, US-Pennsylvania... Read more
27-Mar-09 N482LF Eurocopter EC145 Renovo, US-Pennsylvania... Read more
5-Feb-09 N137LN Eurocopter EC135 Philadelphia, US-Pennsylvania... Read more