22-Mar-2015
R44 went down two miles west of the airport it took off from, crashing into a house and killing the pilot and two passengers – later named here as Bruce Teitelbaum, 48, and Marsha Khan, 55, and Harry Anderson, 42... Read more
20-Mar-2015
Helicopter crashed into lake, pilot missing and passenger recovered uninjured. Local CCTV camera appears to catch helicopter gradually descending in mist towards the smooth surface of the lake... Read more
17-Mar-2015
Captain Rene Zeetsen, 30, was killed in the crash and First Lieutenant Ernst Mollinger, 26, died later in a field hospital... Read more
13-Mar-2015
EMS flight in poor weather conditions, crashed killing two medical staff, four crew and the baby patient, only a few days old. A later report indicated “The post mortem showed there were 0.68 milligrams per milliliter of alcohol in Mehic’s blood, and 1.30 mg/ml in his urine.”... Read more
13-Mar-2015
Crashed in waters off Gageodo Island, while trying to land near a seawall to carry out a mission to transport an emergency patient to an inland hospital. The accident left one dead and three others aboard the helicopter missing.... Read more
13-Mar-2015
Heilcopter struck wires crossing an 800m wide sea inlet known as French Pass between D’Urville Island and the mainland. Sole occupant pilot named as Ian John Simcox, 65, from Blenheim was killed... Read more
12-Mar-2015
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
12-Mar-2015
flying to McAlester from Tulsa when it crashed, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, and no patients were on board. Timed at around 11.25pm 3 POB, 1 Fatal... Read more
9-Mar-2015
7 Marines and 4 Army personnel killed in poor visibility on Florida coast. The missing Marines were from a special operations regiment out of Camp LeJeune in North Carolina – identified as Capt. Stanford Henry Shaw III , Master Sgt. Thomas Saunders, Staff Sgt. Liam Flynn, Staff Sgt. Trevor P. Blaylock , Staff Sgt. Kerry... Read more
9-Mar-2015
Mid air crash of two AS350 helicopters resulting in the fatal crash of both aircraft with a total of 10 lives lost. Aircraft burnt out in post-crash fire, and were involved in the filming of a reality TV show called Dropped. Eight French nationals, including three sports stars, and the Argentine pilots died when the... Read more
9-Mar-2015
Mid air crash of two AS350 helicopters resulting in the fatal crash of both aircraft with a total of 10 lives lost. Aircraft burnt out in post-crash fire, and were involved in the filming of a reality TV show called Dropped. Eight French nationals, including three sports stars, and the Argentine pilots died when the... Read more
8-Mar-2015
The helicopter went down in mountainous terrain while water bombing the area, killing the pilot – named later here as Hendrik Marais... Read more
6-Mar-2015
Helicopter was engaged in low level powerline work, hit powerline and crashed killing both on board. Post crash fire.... Read more
6-Mar-2015
Security video shows helicopter search light spinning to the left. The video shows that the helicopter entered a steep descent and impacted the side of the hospital building and parking lot at night. Operated by Air Methods for ARCH Air Medical. Pilot named here as Ronald Rector... Read more
5-Mar-2015
Hospital worker walked into spinning tail rotor shortly after helicopter had landed, and died from his injuries... Read more
26-Feb-2015
No details released apart from fatality numbers. One unconfirmed report quotes the type as AB212... Read more
19-Feb-2015
Fatalities named in the press as Stephen Anthony Nicholson Combe, aged 42, of Wanaka, and James Louis Patterson Gardner, aged 18, of Queenstown... Read more
16-Feb-2015
Crashed on night training flight, killing four – The ministry identified the dead crew members as Lt. Col. Ali al-Arfaj, 1st Lt. Majid al-Fifeefi, 1st Lt. Jadie Qablan and technician Raed al-Jahni.... Read more
13-Feb-2015
Helicopter with four on board crashed in forest area. One passenger (named as Miguel Zunino Valenzuela) jumped clear just before the helicopter crashed and the other three died in the accident, including Ítalo Zunino Muratori, Nicolás Fossatti and pilot Luis Alvarado.... Read more
12-Feb-2015
Two instructors and one student died on a training accident. Weather was a factor and cause them to change their planned route after take-off.... Read more
12-Feb-2015
Test flight of newly imported helicopter. Pilot killed... Read more
11-Feb-2015
Instructor and student killed on night training flight. Crashed in rocky mountainous area and burnt out... Read more
28-Jan-2015
Crashed on training flight killing all four on board... Read more
27-Jan-2015
Crashed killing both on board after hitting powerlines at night. Helicopter was carrying 800-900 kg of hashish and on an illegal (unbooked with air traffic) flight. One of those on board was from the Albanian Air Force. Photos show a Bo105 in dark camouflage colours... Read more
26-Jan-2015
Crashed adjacent to the threshold of runway 15 and burnt out. Mountain View Fire & Rescue issued a statement saying there were two fatalities. This short video interview suggests that part of the helicopter separated in mid air. Operator Mountain One Helicopters announced on their Facebook page that the victims were instructor Alex Viola and... Read more
23-Jan-2015
Marines helicopter out of MCAS Miramar crashed on a training flight at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms. Both on board died in the accident, named later as Capt. Elizabeth Kealey and 1st Lt. Adam Satterfield... Read more
16-Jan-2015
Helicopter crashed killing the 51-year old pilot at 2510 Northline Road, nr College Park Drive, later named as Michael Mims.... Read more
10-Jan-2015
Crashed into water killing the sole occupant pilot... Read more
10-Jan-2015
The pilot was killed and an occupant was seriously injured after a helicopter crashed in the PR-576 highway, in Santa Monica, Paraná. Post crash fire. Helicopter reportedly hit a large bird, and wires during emergency landing... Read more
8-Jan-2015
Crashed at night killing owner Mauro Garza Fernandez, and passenger Alejandro Lopez Lopez. Pilot Ciro Huerta Martinez and the other two passengers named as Balden Lorenzo González and Jorge Armando Gonzalez Bustos were injured. Some reports say that the helicopter was not equipped for night flights. Video of the crash site here.... Read more
2-Jan-2015
Fatal accident, no further details yet... Read more
31-Dec-2014
Helicopter crashed on post-maintenance ferry flight from Phoenix to Sierra Vista, killing pilot Jeff Steele and mechanic Marc Hansen, who were both employed by Airwest Helicopters LLC. The helicopter was operated for Cochise County Sheriff’s Department... Read more
29-Dec-2014
Crashed in unknown circumstances just outside boundary fence of Lantana Airport – killing instructor Luis Aviles, and seriously injuring student pilot Johnathan Desouza... Read more
27-Dec-2014
Crashed into Mangrove swamp not long after take-off from Condo Iporanga in Guaruja when en route to Sao Paulo, killing all five on board. This included Marcelo Muller, grandson of the founder of the Muller beverage company, his wife Lumara Rocha Müller, their 2 year old daughter Georgia and her nanny Raquel dos Santos Vilas... Read more
7-Dec-2014
Heavy landing after reported engine failure. Impact killed two of the six on board, named here as Vladimir Novikov and Flarit Galyavutdinov... Read more
4-Dec-2014
Crashed on training flight, killing Portuguese instructor and Angolan student... Read more
2-Dec-2014
Main rotor and mast separated shortly after take-off from Sky Park Airport on post-maintenance test flight to track and balance the blades. Two fatalities named later as Claus Hauer and Bruce Orr... Read more
29-Nov-2014
Helicopter crashed killing all 4 POB – Two pilots from the police force, a civilian pilot and a police officer were killed. On final approach to Dar es Salaam’s Julius Nyerere International Airport. Potential wake vortex issue from recently landed airliner? Anti Poaching flight... Read more
20-Nov-2014
Crashed in foggy conditions en route from Moscow to Kstovo (Nizhny Novgorod region) between the villages of Mihalchikovo and Korabotovo. Killing the pilot and four passengers, including an 8-year-old girl.... Read more
6-Nov-2014
Crashed on night training mission. The two pilos were named as Chief Warrant Officers Stien P. Gearhart, 50, of Meridian and Jon L. Hartway, 43, of Kun... Read more
2-Nov-2014
Russia’s Emergencies Ministry has confirmed the death of two persons in the crash of a private Mi-2 helicopter in Yamal, northwest Siberia. Heliccopter crashed into a lake and only the tail visible above the water... Read more
28-Oct-2014
Struck wires while spraying at low level, killing pilot Peter Robb... Read more
23-Oct-2014
Mid-air collision with Cirrus fixed wing N122ES. Helicopter crashed fatally in an industrial area. Total of three fatal – named later as Christopher David Parsons, 29, of Westminster, an instructor for Advanced Helicopter Concepts. William Jenkins, 47, of Colorado, and Breandan J. MacFawn, 35, of Cumberland, were also killed... Read more
18-Oct-2014
2000 hr pilot Bernhard de Beer flying his own helicopter on a route he covers most days. Crashed fatally and completely burned out... Read more
12-Oct-2014
Turkish Navy Black Hawk had controlled flight into terrain in poor weather. All 4 POB killed... Read more
10-Oct-2014
Helicopter crashed into a mountainside amid low cloud and falling snow and caught fire when it hit the ground There were 11 passengers and 3 crew members on board . Wreckage not found until 07-Aug-15 and reported 08-Aug-15... Read more
8-Oct-2014
The helicopter was allegedly downed by IS with a shoulder fired missile. One report says three fatalities... Read more
7-Oct-2014
Cause unknown. Helicopter went missing on flight from Karamea to Nelson and the wreckage was not found for a further four days. The deceased pilot was named as Damian Webster... Read more
4-Oct-2014
Accident on night EMS flight just one block short of its intended landing spot at United Regional Hospital in Wichita Falls, inbound from Waurika, OK. Patient (named here as 26-year-old Buddy Rhodes) killed in the accident, and the three crew named here as pilot Zechariah Smith, flight nurse Leslie Stewart and flight paramedic Erasmus J. Vandercolff... Read more
2-Oct-2014
Helicopter took off from Lausanne, Switzerland and has crashed in France – reportedly just prior to landing at Montbéliard – Courcelles Aerodrome. Weather reported as foggy and press report says that pilot was looking for a gap in the cloud to land at the airfield. Five of seven POB killed when helicopter landed on a... Read more
1-Oct-2014
Cheetah helicopter of the Indian Army taking part in the ongoing military exercise at the Jat Regimetanl Centre (JRC) at Bareilly crashed minutes after take-off killing all three on board. It had gained only a few hundred metres in height when it caught fire mid-air. Another report states it was a maintenance flight. The three... Read more
1-Oct-2014
Osprey temporarily lost power after taking off from the amphibious ship Makin Island. temporarily hitting the water before the pilot regained control. In that moment, two Marine air crewmen aboard jumped out when it looked like the Osprey was going into the ocean, with only one recovered. The search for the second has been called... Read more
29-Sep-2014
Crashed on take off from private property near the intersection of Old Douglas Lane and Old Flynn Road. Owner/pilot James Lee died in the accident... Read more
27-Sep-2014
Crashed in jungle on flight searching for two missing mountaineers. Wreckage found three days later. Two occupants (pilot Capt Chatchawal Thanthong and experienced mountain trekker U Shwe Yin Taw Gyi) hiked for some time and were located further days after that according to this report. The third (Myanmar co-pilot Aung Myat Toe who navigated) was... Read more
25-Sep-2014
Crashed in open field not far short of landing at Rand Airport. Both people on board killed – pilot named here as Blake Simpson. The helicopter caught fire after impact and was completely destroyed.... Read more
23-Sep-2014
Crashed into heavy wooded area and wreckage not found until 05-Oct-14. Pilot David Guerra had reported loss of power and autorotated into the jungle... Read more
20-Sep-2014
Helicopter crashed into lake during a scenic flight, although Military Police reported that this type of operation was not permitted for this helicopter and/or pilot. Pilot Abitbol Bruno Nogueira de Andrade got out (and reportedly fled the scene) while the two passengers were trapped inside and drowned. Press report stated “According to police, the driver... Read more
19-Sep-2014
Helicopter overflew a boat before flying at low level and high speed, getting lower very gradually until hitting the water. The water surface was glassy smooth, perhaps contributory. After crashing, the helicopter is said to have sunk almost immediately. The pilot/owner who died has been identified as 41 year old Alexei Afonchenkovu. Passenger survived... Read more
16-Sep-2014
Initial reports coming in. Witnesses say they heard a “loud crack” shortly be fire the helicopter started descending rapidly. The helicopter took off from Dechmont, near Livingston in West Lothian and was due to land at Humberside Airport for refuelling before flying on to Gamston, presumably en route it’s home base at Manston. It had... Read more
13-Sep-2014
Pilot killed in crash on firefighting ops – Type and operator confirmed by this report. Registration confirmed from photo on this page – enlarged here. Pilot named as Fernando Baraza on this tribute page... Read more
5-Sep-2014
Helicopter ditched. Three bodies recovered, fourth not found and presume drowned. Owner/pilot was billionaire Michael Henriksen of MH Gruppen, which specialises in container shipping. Another name published was that of Morten Friis, an executive in Norrecco, also part of MH Gruppen. Volvo Trucks Denmark named the other two as their CEO Søren Wettergreen and Sales... Read more
5-Sep-2014
Crashed shortly after take-off into the car park of a football stadium. Post crash fire. The two deceased were named as Lieven Ghekiere and Johan Deceuninck Note – despite being registered in the US, this helicopter has been based in Belgium... Read more
4-Sep-2014
Crashed near Gelendzhik airport and caught fire. Full video of accident here. From a steady hover the helicopter lost height and hit the ground heavily and bounced. The impact caused the tail boom to shear off and thus the helicopter became dynamically unstable, it immediately crashed onto its belly and caught fire. It burned out... Read more
3-Sep-2014
While en route from the Mexico City area to Toluca, helicopter went down just 5 miles from destination... Read more
26-Aug-2014
During operations for the UN, the helicopter was shot down over the area of Bentiu in Southern Sudan. Three crew members died, a fourth was seriously injured.... Read more
25-Aug-2014
During the ferry flight, the helicopter collided with terrain. The helicopter was destroyed by fire and the pilot died in the accident.... Read more
24-Aug-2014
Blades struck mountain side during rescue operation of a climber, causing helicopter to crash. All three on board killed, named as Captain Emilio Pérez Peláez Lieutenient Marcos Antonio Benito Rodríguez José Martínez Conejo (Mountain specialist) The helicopter is officially serialled HU.15-90. It also carried the Guardia Civil code 09-118 See also Guardia Civil tribute video... Read more
20-Aug-2014
Bad weather had prevented the helicopter from from touching down at the base where they had planned to land. The accident happened during the diversion. One of the occupants was Major General Israel Rudy Ruiz Ortiz, Chief of Staff of National Defense of Guatemala... Read more
20-Aug-2014
Separatists downed one Mil Mi-24 helicopter from the Ukrainian Air Force with a portable air defence system... Read more
19-Aug-2014
Crashed on powerline patrol, killing both on board – 51-year-old pilot Matthew Wallace of Hiram, Georgia and 63-year-old David Carson of Tuscaloosa, Alabama who was employed by Alabama Power.... Read more
16-Aug-2014
Heliski helicopter crashed on mountain. Boom detatched from cabin, which rolled further down the slope. 1 fatal (named as Jerome Box) of 7 on board – five skiers, their guide and the pilot. The other six all to hospital, none with life-threatening injuries... Read more
12-Aug-2014
Helicopter clipped powerlines and crashed killing pilot Paul Reynolds during a low level transit between fields he was working on.... Read more
12-Aug-2014
Helicopter was involved in evacuating people in a humanitarian emergency situation in northern Iraq. Crashed – killing the pilot (reported as “Majed”) – possibly due to overloading. Those on board included Yazidi member of parliament, Vian Dakheel New York Times reporter Alissa Rubin – see story Australian photographer Adam Ferguson, freelancing for the New York... Read more
10-Aug-2014
Crashed on the edge of a sugar cane field killing pilot Kenneth E. Squires, age 60. Five years ago age 55 the pilot was quoting himself as having flown 19,000 hours... Read more
8-Aug-2014
Crashed into mountain during a thunderstorm killing pilot Domenico Praiale (55) and passenger Sara Piredda Piras (29). Local reports suggest poor visibility due to fog and clouds. Helicopter was original an SA318 Alouette but had been extensively modified and was classed as a homebuild... Read more