Officials believe the helicopter had just taken off when it hit trees close to the Wakulla County Airport’s runway. The helicopter then cut nearby power lines, and came to rest in a marshy area. 53-year-old Curtis Robert Clifford and 49-year-old Terry Bryan Ooten were found dead, while 45-year-old Sheri Noelle Devore survived... Read more
Tail rotor struck fence while taxying... Read more
Loss of control during takeoff from a helipad located Marla at an altitude of 1 600m. Crash landed on a sports field. Second link is to the final report... Read more
1 of 9 POB killed when helicopter came down on night anti-drug mission. Helicopter had been working with a US Navy MH-60R which was on hand to transport 6 of the injured to hospital.... Read more
Tail struck snow while on heliski operations.... Read more
Rotor blades contacted building on take-off, causing helicopter to crash. Post accident fire. Pilot escaped unharmed... Read more
Fell onto its side on take-off in snowy conditions... Read more
Helicopter on pipeline patrol fell onto its side on take off after reportedly spinning... Read more
Crashed onto truck on runway during night training flight... Read more
Pilot lost vertical visibility due to fog, hit the ground heavily and the helicopter rolled onto its side. Of 19 POB, one serious injury... Read more
General media reported that pilot had tail rotor issue on take-off, and helicopter started to spin out of control. In subsequent heavy landing, helicopter rolled over onto its side. 3 POB to hospital – pilot Allon Francisco Herrera, 56, the copilot, Gadea Sebastian Castro, 27, and an official of the Election Authorities, Adriana Solis Vega, 26... Read more
Tail struck ground during autorotation training... Read more
Crashed close to the owner’s home. Pilot to hospital. CADORS 2014Q0192... Read more
In a low hover on a training flight and the helicopter began to spin uncontrollably. Helicopter hit the ground tail first and broke the tail boom... Read more
Unspecifiedl accident inside military base, killing one and injuring the other two occupants... Read more
Main rotor blades struck hangar while taxying... Read more
Force landed in field near Clearview Airport... Read more
Crashed in to jungle on night training flight. Tail and main blades heavily damaged. Described in the non-aviation press as a write-off. 4 POB injured and in hospital... Read more
Helicopter calling emergency with one engine shut down and 2 POB. Cambria County Airport area. Safe night landing... Read more
Military helicopter (apparently carrying oil workers) crashed (5 injured)... Read more
Pilot of offshore helicopter issued distress call 45 miles from Sumburgh and was escorted to a safe landing by Coast Guard helicopter. Report suggests pilot had indication of a “pump failure” without providing more details. Aircraft grounded awaiting engineering support... Read more
2POB escaped unharmed. helicopter rolled off bank into the waters of Pitt Lake, British Columbia CADORS 2014P0128... Read more
Crashed from low level during powerline survey work for Holy Cross Energy. All 3 POB fatally injured, including Doug Sheffer, owner and chief pilot of DBS Helicopters (from this page). The others were named here as Larry Shaffer and Christopher Gaskill... Read more
Shortly after takeoff the pilot experienced yaw control difficulties, resulting in the loss of control of the helicopter and a subsequent crash landing. The pilot escaped with minor injuries. In the absence of any mechanical abnormalities, the most likely cause of the accident is a loss of tail rotor effectiveness.... Read more
Landed at a ski resort. With the rotors still turning and the crew still in the aircraft, it slid 30m down a slight (but snowy) slope until it hit a snowmobile and a sign, damaging a main rotor blade and the rear cabin area (see video of accident)... Read more
Militants claim that an Egyptian Air Force helicopter has crashed with five fatalities. The nearest we have managed to get to photo evidence of this accident is this press photo which claims to be a funeral of one of those in the helicopter... Read more
Crew injured alighting from helicopter in snowy conditions... Read more
Training flight, killing student Lieutenant Paolo Tozzi and General Feltrinelli Calligaris, head of Italian Army Aviation [named here]. Powerline reported down and press suggesting that was the cause.... Read more
Training accident, helicopter ended up on its starboard side... Read more
The helicopter had just been started with an ground power unit (GPU). The pilot exited the aircraft in order to disconnect the GPU, when a gust of wind pushed the helicopter into the trees next to the helipad. The pilot was not injured. CADORS 2014C0375... Read more
Precautionary landing in jungle due to weather. Location meant that helicopter crew was out of contact for 15+ hours, causing SAR response etc. 10 POB all safe... Read more
The helicopter impacted the helipad surface shortly after lift-off. It was airborne for less than a minute and had climbed to approx. 20 meters. After impact, the helicopter continued to spin counter clockwise about its landing gears, on the tarmac for approximately 149 meters destroying the surrounding trees/markers before coming to rest at the end of the tarmac.... Read more
Landing accident after reported transmission issue. Skids collapsed, main blades chopped tail boom... Read more
Substantially damaged in landing accident... Read more
Landing accident, helicopter on its side... Read more
Flying from Traverse City to Lansing for maintenance of a compass malfunction when it developed mechanical problems requiring the emergency landing. Roaded out.... Read more
During a practice autorotation from 1 500 ft, the engine failed and the crew completed an autorotation landing. An engineering inspection did not reveal the reason for the failure... Read more
Precautionary landing in public park. Engineer called... Read more
Helicopter wheels stuck in concrete – helipad had been hastily built for new Santiniketan-Calcutta service and had not fully set!... Read more
Emergency field landing. Engineer called. Flew out later same day... Read more
Emergency landing followed by uncontained engine failure and fire. 2 POB safely exited helicopter... Read more
Hit cable at low level and crashed into wooded area. Some reports suggest the cable was intentionally put there by the dissident groups, and that this helicopter was one of 11 put into the region to restore order after the dissident group took control. Helicopter fitted with cable cutters. 5 pOB received minor injuries, and... Read more
One killed, two injured in training accident. Helicopter operated by Special ops 160SOAR unit. Fatality named here as Capt. Clayton O. Carpenter... Read more
Air Ambulance helicopter struck powerlines (video) on final approach to road traffic accident landing site. Norsk Luftambulanse has confirmed two of its employees have died in the accident. Fatalities confirmed here as pilot Bjorn Nergård and doctor Anders Nakstad with the paramedic Sondre Bjartland seriously injured... Read more
Helicopter crashed and burnt out. It appears that owner/pilot Christian Malila Ndou jumped out prior to impact as his body was found 30m away from the crash site. South African registered R44 may have been ZS-RYB (10918) but this is not yet proven... Read more
Training accident – landed in the tops of the trees in a mountainous area. Both occupants injured – named as Alcemir Campos Pereira, 39, and Gabriel Silva Mataruna Assunção, 23.... Read more
Both occupants injured on training flight after landing on top of trees. Occupants named as Alcemir Campos Pereira, 39, and Gabriel Silva Mataruna Asuncion, 23... Read more
Emergency landing after pilot suspected (wrongly as it happens) an engine fire. Helicopter ended up on its side. 3 POB all injured and to hospital. US Customs & Border Patrol helicopter was reportedly on low level work... Read more
Helicopter clipped wing of parked fixed wing. Unclear whether helicopter was taking off, landing or being repositioned at the time... Read more
Pilot observed a significant reduction in engine noise and a different regime. The helicopter slowly loses the height. The pilot decided to land in the countryside. A 2 meters on the ground, the device drops abruptly. One of the main rotor blades struck the ground in front of the camera then severed the tail boom.... Read more
Crashed killing all five occupants – military personnel flying in a civilian helicopter. Former president quoted here said that crash caused by FARC terrorists... Read more
Fell onto its side in landing on snow... Read more
Safe emergency landing made with no damage to aircraft. Helicopter AOG awaiting engineer... Read more
Powerline patrol – encountered wind change at low level and was unable to recover. Main blades chopped boom... Read more
Crashed into the ocean. Four of five POB rescued, but two of the four later died, named as pilot Lt. Wesley Van Dorn and Naval Aircrewman 3rd Class Brian Collins. Search for fifth person – pilot Lt. Sean Christopher Snyder – was later abandoned... Read more
Lakenheath-based Pave Hawk helicopter crashed during a night low-level training exercise due to a multiple bird strike, killing all four on board – named as Capt Christopher S. Stover, Capt Sean M. Ruane, Technical Sergeant Dale E. Mathews and Staff Sergeant Afton M. Ponce.. The helicopter went down between a beach car park at Cley... Read more
Air Ambulance helicopter went AOG at accident scene... Read more
This was a training flight and the crew was practising a simulated governor/FADEC failure when the helicopter landed hard short of the helipad, resulting in substantial damage to the skid gear, which broke off. The pilot flying closed the throttle at a height of 30 ft AGL, which resulted in a sudden decay in main... Read more
The helicopter lifted an external load of 485 kg from the deck of a vessel at sea to transport it to land. After lifting the load, the helicopter gained climbing speed and began to climb to 300 ft AMSL for the cruise. Once at 300 ft the load was reported to be stable, the PIC... Read more
Lost window in flight, diverted to Muskoka airport... Read more
Badly damaged when fell off the trailer it was being transported on Interstate 90. Road conditions were snowy. Helicopter was withdrawn in 2011 and has been sold to a new owner in Australia. It still appears to be carrying old registration N505TJ (since taken up by a new Bell 429) and not its reassigned reg N585TJ.... Read more
Helicopter crashed and ended up on its side... Read more
Heavy landing and rolled over after losing power on a post-maintenance test flight. Pilot was only person on board... Read more
Pilot and two passengers injured in tourist flight after ditching near Kouri Island... Read more
One killed and four seriously injured in crash outside a hospital building. Judging by photos on Twitter such as this one and this one, it would appear that the helicopter struck wires, which brought it down. Fatality named here as Arif Setiawan and the other four were pilot Budi Indra and hospital employees Nilawaty Ginting, Yahya Sembiring, and... Read more
Three POB injured after reported loss of lower caused helicopter to come down... Read more
Badly burned in arson attack while parked. Gang unsuccessfully attempted same on a second helicopter parked nearby... Read more
Fire fighting helicopter shot at from the ground by 9mm bullett... Read more
Landing accident on training flight, helicopter ended up on its port side. Both occupants to hospital... Read more
Helicopter landed close to a landmine which was then triggered via mobile phone by a terrorist group. 2 injuries of 6 POB – named as Patrolman Diego Garzón and the pilot Captain Juan Gabriel Ramirez... Read more
Damage to tail rotor blades and tail boom during landing phase, arriving from Sabetta. No reported injuries to 3 crew and 13 passengers on board... Read more
Within a short time of completing a “Maintenance Check 2”, helicopter crashed on the rocky coast of an island. All 4 POB got out safely. At the time of the incident, the S61 was piloted by Kapt Asmawi Azmi and co-pilot Kapt Nuradlina Ab Manah. Sjn (U) Mohamad Khairi Abdul Rahman was the helicopter’s Air... Read more
The helicopter entered a high hover to blow away snow accumulation at the scene. During the manoeuvre a white out condition was created. The main rotor contacted trees. Control of the helicopter was maintained and a landing was performed immediately. There were no injuries. The helicopter sustained damage to all 4 rotor blades.... Read more
Solo pilot seriously injured in crash close to Grand Central Airport. R22 ended up on its side with main blades bent but still attached... Read more
Tail hit ground on final approach, and helicopter rolled onto its side. 2 of 5 POB seriously injured... Read more