Stranded on hospital helipad after APU failure, fixed next day... Read more
Caught skid during hover practice. tipped over onto its side... Read more
While loading patient, an ED technician dressed in a blue plastic gown came sprinting around from the far side of the aircraft. The pilot was able to intercept this individual but not before he had come under the rotor disk and near the tail. While loading patient at Day Kimball Hospital, Putnam, CT, an ED... Read more
The Interior Ministry says six firefighters have died when their helicopter crashed in a remote region in the northeastern province of Aragon as they flew to try and put out a wildfire. The statement says a seventh crew member survived the accident and has been flown to hospital in the city of Teruel. Photos at... Read more
The Korea Forest Service helicopter carrying three crew members crashed into a reservoir in Seosan, some 277 km south of Seoul, at 6:47 a.m., a few minutes after taking off for an extinguishing operation in the nearby Mount Gaya region. Believed to be HL9449... Read more
The pilot set down the helicopter in a field near the corner of Regal Row and Empress Row around 9:30 a.m. after smoke began to fill the cockpit. The problem turned out to be an air conditioning belt that overheated.... Read more
Crashed and burnt out. Both occupants injured. One report states it did not have an airworthiness certificate, and the pilot was not approved on type.... Read more
Engine failure in flight, heavy landing, ended up on its side... Read more
Passenger struck fatally on head by main rotor when disembarking on sloping site. Pilot listed as Pablo Blanco Venegas... Read more
Emergency landing, mechanics called... Read more
The Chetak helicopter was on a routine sortie from the Bamrauli base, but had to make the emergency landing as a precaution due to a technical defect... Read more
Pilot named as Leonardo Gomes Leal, 29, and co-pilot was James Tavares Bastos, 18... Read more
Mechanic became trapped under the sponson of a CH-53E after the landing gear collapsed when the landing-gear pin was pulled before takeoff. Marine was later named as Sgt. Alexis Fontalvo... Read more
Bird strike on approach to land at base... Read more
Lost control during ramp area manoeuvring.... Read more
Gusty winds caught helicopter while in a low level hover and it ended up on its side. Pilot was Charles Williams, 42, of Anacoco, and passenger was Pat Austin, 39, of Leesville... Read more
Tail rotor strike during landing... Read more
Precautionary landing due to weather and a technical defect. Stayed overnight, departed next day.... Read more
A Jet Ranger was damaged during a minor training mishap at Axamo Airport in Jönköping. The occupants were unharmed, and the cause of the incident is unknown... Read more
EMS flight. Clipped and snapped telephone wire on take-off damaging blade tips. Landed safely in adjacent field. No injuries. CADAORS ref 2011P0343... Read more
Uneventful approach and landing on the helideck where it was intended to embark ten passengers and some equipment. After nine passengers had boarded, the aircraft suddenly settled and adopted a nose high attitude. The engines were shut down and the passengers and crew disembarked. Subsequent examination of the aircraft by the crew showed that the... Read more
Double engine failure infilght at 5000ft with German Chancellor Merkel on board. Pilot restarted engine approx 1000ft agl from the ground... Read more
Development aircraft – report of jolt while in cruise flight – entered autorotation but heavy landing and helicopter ended up on its side.... Read more
Landed on helipad, rolled over to one side and burst into flames... Read more
Emergency landing in market square. See also second link where pilot falls foul of the CAA and gets fined for this incident... Read more
Engine fire en route – emergency (and safe) landing in field... Read more
“They made a precautionary emergency landing due to an equipment malfunction, and they had a patient on board,” said Cpl. Kelly Matthews with the Wicomico Sheriff’s Office.... Read more
AGL Action Rescue had been over Moura, en route to Rockhampton, when their aircraft experienced a hydraulics malfunction and they were forced to land at Moura sports oval.  (AGL operates BK117s VH-EHQ/VH-BKV, and Longranger VH-ZOW)... Read more
“the pilot and crew heard a strange noise coming from the aircraft and made the decision to land.” Orange County Sheriff fly three OH-58Cs and one Bell 407... Read more
On short final the pilot elected to change the touchdown point. During manoeuvre, the tail rotor struck a large rock. The tail rotor drive shaft sheared and the tail rotor sustained substantial damage; helicopter remained upright on landing. Sole occupant pilot was not injured. CADAORS ref 2011C0797... Read more
Inflight damage to tail rotor... Read more
Involved in lifting task putting aircon unit on roof. Helicopter crashed, colliding with building and causing building to catch fire.... Read more
Dynamic roll-over... Read more
Damaged beyond repair by tsunami... Read more
Damaged beyond repair by tsunami... Read more
Landed hard during precautionary landing... Read more
All the three crew members aboard a military helicopter survived when it crashed Thursday morning in the southern part of Pakistan’s capital Islamabad near Burma Bridge... Read more
Emergency landing on a playing field yesterday after indications of a possible engine fault... Read more
Extremely erratic take-off from elevated hospital helipad caught on video. According to the company, the pilot could bring the machine under control. CEO Roy Knaus blamed the incident on “a combination of circumstances”... Read more
Authorities were alerted after the non-arrival of a helicopter due from a short flight in Cumbria. Local press reports give the owner/pilot’s name as Mark Weir.... Read more
Press report states “tail boom separated”... Read more
Sudden white-out when flying at 150ft agl then rolled-over after hitting the ground. Believed to be weather-related and not mechanical. Visibility in the area was reduced to 1.6 km by blowing snow and the temperature was -24 C – -38 C with the windchill. Occupants got out OK but then post-crash fire destroyed the aircraft... Read more
Crashed in a clearing close to a second R22 which was carrying out a deer recovery operation. Subject helicopter was observing, initally from 15m up, just prior to it coming down. Pilot aged 64 OK, passenger aged 55 needed medical treatment. Both from Warkworth, north of Auckland... Read more
Air-to-air with FAC-4501, killing 5 in this helicopter. Air force Capt. Juan Jose Orjuela, Mexican Lt. Dante Herrera Alarcon, Lt. Manuel Alberto Cuspoca, technician John Mario Diaz Llanos and technician Felipe Pava Rodriguez were killed in the accident.... Read more
pilot made a “precautionary†landing around 9:35 a.m after an engine warning light switched... Read more
US Army helicopter made precautionary landing which required engineers to be called out from its Fort Hood base... Read more
Air-to-air accident with FAC-4506. No fatalities in this helicopter. Crew listed as Captain Jorge Eduardo Estrada Olivares (Army Pilot), Lt Ivan Camilo Gonzalez Rada (Student Army), Lt Hugo Estrada Lopez (Mexican Student) and First Technical Luis Carlos Castro (Crew FAC)... Read more
The pilot of the Air Operations Center (Nuopa) of the Traffic Department would identify a mechanical problem and made an impromptu landing on the ground. The trio ended up injured when the aircraft crashed into the ground.... Read more
Libyan Air Force helicopter shot down by rebels and fell into the sea... Read more
Warning light came on mid-air while transporting patient from Mudgee Hospital to Lithgow Hospital. Emergency crews were in attendance for its arrival, which passed off without incident. Helicopter checked over and returned to its base at Orange... Read more
Wheels up landing. Helicopter had been shuttling that day between Santa Maria, Santa Barbara and an offshore platform called “Harvest”, some 15 miles SW of Lompoc.... Read more
Helicopter was hovertaxying when it was hit from behind hy a Starduster fixed wing aircraft. All occupants from both aircraft are OK... Read more
Engine inlet covers had not been removed prior to flight. Uneventful run-on landing made... Read more
Pilot reported as 51-year-old Mark Palmieri. R44 was broken in two and the cabin area reported as charred. Pilot had to wait 3 hours before being rescued... Read more
A Eurocopter Ec135 of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Airborne Response Team “D-HART” made a precautionary landing at the busy Boston Logan Airport today after the pilot reported difficulties with one engine.... Read more
Flights suspended from London City Airport after Bell JetRanger made emergency landing there and blocked the runway... Read more
Shortly after take off from the military base of Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque, a door of the aircraft opened. One occupant tried to secure it, but appears to have dragged out by suction, falling into the waters of a pond. A second crew member went to assist and was also sucked out. One later died in the hospital... Read more
Force landed near a parking deck... Read more
Heavy landing during night training flight. Accident occurred around 2000 hours local. Skids collapsed. Tail boom failed at root, but did not separate from the cabin. Helicopter shipped back to manufacturer for checks (see here)... Read more
Reported by the general media as “engine problems” and an unplanned landing made. The two dignitories on board – Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole; and Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel – were not injured... Read more
Very heavy landing on long-line training flight. Helicopter ended up on starboard side with boom separated.... Read more
Rolled onto its side during take-off manoeuvre... Read more
R44 had to make emergency landing after experiencing a significant loss of power, in which the tail was damaged. It was one of three R44s flying together which were all wrongly refuelled at Forestville Airport... Read more
Mil Mi-8 helicopter made an emergency landing at Baikit Airport in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk territory after its engine malfunctioned... Read more
Helicopter crashed on the beach, ending up on its side with boom separated. Sole occupant pilot was seriously injured, pulled from the wreckage by a passer-by and flown to Palmerston North Hospital. Pilot name reported as Jim Sherwin, aged 60... Read more
Bird strike which caused windshield to shatter... Read more
low fuel pressure warning light came on during climbout at 200′. Engine sputtered and the ensuing landing was heavy, with the tail boom separating from the cabin and the base of the cabin touching the ground.... Read more
Hard landing in an orchard... Read more
Landed on its port side with floats deployed. Two people medevac to hospital by MedCopter “Chopper 2”... Read more
Main rotor struck tail boom during autorotation landing... Read more
Helicopter was doing work in the National Park, probably load lifting but the news reports thus far are unclear. Serious injuries reported... Read more
Only delivered within the last week, crew lost control with command centre. Some wreckage and one body found to date.... Read more
L.A. County sheriff’s Capt. Mike Parker said the pilots were conducting a training exercise “simulating a hydraulic failure” when the Eurocopter AS350 went down.... Read more
Rolled over on landing... Read more
