1-Jan-2011
Engine cowling opened and struck main rotor blades on approach to land... Read more
2-Jan-2011
HeliHub.com is currently tracking news of an R44 missing in Argentina. No word in eight days is likely to lead to an incident report, hence we have opened a page for this. Pilot named as Alejandro Ferzola.... Read more
3-Jan-2011
Flashlight unintentionally left in NOTAR drive cowling during maintannce caused inflight out-of-balance indication... Read more
3-Jan-2011
Air Ambulance role, landed in city centre to pick up construction worker patient. Landed too close to a car park barrier, and downwash caused barrier to rise up into rotor disc.... Read more
3-Jan-2011
30 minute tour flight with three Chinese passengers – The 34-year-old-pilot, a 40-year-old man, and two women, aged 36 and 46, were taken to Cairns Base Hospital.... Read more
3-Jan-2011
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
4-Jan-2011
CHC AS332L2 landed safely at Aberdeen Airport after a full emergency was declared due to a warning light., which may have indicted gearbox temperature problems.... Read more
4-Jan-2011
Running up on the ground after maintenance and helicopter ended up on its port side. No passengers on board... Read more
5-Jan-2011
Precautionary landing made after warning light illumination. Later departed. One of crew wearing Boeing flight uniform. Likely on test flight out of Boeing facility at Milville Municipal Airport... Read more
6-Jan-2011
A medevac helicopter en route to a Caroll County hospital made an emergency landing in Reisterstown Thursday night, Baltimore County police said.... Read more
7-Jan-2011
EMS helicopter went town killing all four on board – named as pilot Capt. Khaled Al-Dakhil and First Lt. Mandeel Al-Subaihi, both Saudis, Egyptian doctor Amjad Al-Iraqi and Filipino nurse Rosella. Official source has said that it “crashed south of Riyadh Friday burst into flames due to the force of the impact with the groundâ€.... Read more
9-Jan-2011
Crew reported as pilot Osvaldo Perez Feliz and copilot Mario Rivas, neither badly hurt. The helicopter is often used privately by Dominican Republic opposition leader, Miguel Vargas, and was only 1.5 miles out from 1.5 miles from Higüero Airport on a flight to La Romana to pick him up.... Read more
10-Jan-2011
Camera operator and the pilot suffered minor injuries. AS350 was operating for television station TVI. Location was a field adjacent to the A2 motorway... Read more
10-Jan-2011
Television stations cited the military as saying officials had reached the wreckage, but fog covered the area. It was a Bell UH-1 on a night training mission... Read more
11-Jan-2011
TV reporting helico0pter for WCVB – Boston’s Channel 5. Warning light came on and pilot made immediate emergency landing. No damage to helicopter. Pilot Michael Young employed buy Helicopters Inc, and photographer Karen Lippert of WCVB were aboard.... Read more
11-Jan-2011
Severe ground resonance resulted in separation of rotor dynamics from the helicopter. Pilots Daniel Alencar Tavares, 33, and Geovani Kopti were both seriously injured... Read more
11-Jan-2011
Two people were injured when a Royal Thai Police helicopter made an emergency landing in a rice field... Read more
14-Jan-2011
Reportedly developed mechanical difficulties and crashed into a coconut tree while landing... Read more
14-Jan-2011
Pilot Dempsey Stice, 42, was found dead in the cockpit with no signs of trauma, Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said. He apparently landed the helicopter safely as there was no damage to the aircraft,... Read more
15-Jan-2011
Instructor vacated aircraft for student Adeniyi Akinuli to complete shut-down. Helicopter took off unexpectedly and landed onto its side... Read more
15-Jan-2011
Main blades severed tail boom during autorotation on training flight... Read more
18-Jan-2011
Pilot Jean Marcel Grillet Aubert seriously injured, Passenger (unnamed) not injured... Read more
19-Jan-2011
Crashed from hovering at 5m, helicopter ended up on its side. Three occupants, one of which was hospitalized... Read more
20-Jan-2011
Accident while landing in windy conditions. Five occupants OK... Read more
20-Jan-2011
Pilot was Scott Finlayson, rescued safely and briefly hospitalised.... Read more
20-Jan-2011
One of the Air Force Fennec helicopters struck Thursday two electrical wires near Klovborg. The helicopter’s wire cutter entured that it carried on flying, but the pilot landed immediately as a precaution, following standard procedures. No persons were injured.... Read more
20-Jan-2011
F0rce landed in a field.... Read more
20-Jan-2011
Loss of control due spatial orientation in limited visibility and” whiteness “of the underlying surface, not being able to continue the flight under visual flight rules, which led to reduce the uncontrolled collision with a roll and a helicopter with ice-covered surface of the lake. 1 killed, 5 injured... Read more
21-Jan-2011
The pilot, Lt Col. Koosie De Villiers, and his crewman Lt Col. Shabir Khan, were both seriously injured in the crash. Eyesitness described the aircraft as being a “total mangled wreck”, with no windows left as it “was all smashed up”.... Read more
22-Jan-2011
President Piñera landed off-airfield in his own R44, and a video of the incident taken by a citizen suggested that the stop was unplanned. The President denies this, saying it was a planned refuelling stop... Read more
23-Jan-2011
Emergency landing made on edge of river after suspected mechanical problems. Two occupants uninjured... Read more
24-Jan-2011
Thge television station AS350B2 – known as “Globocop” – was hit by three rifle shots at about 7:30 am. The reporter Karina Borges, the system operator and the pilot Roberto Mello Kings Antonio Ramos was not injured. one of the bullets hit the floor, the second, the central region, and the third, the tail of the... Read more
26-Jan-2011
Pilot used the helicopter’s flotation device and all four stayed on board until they were saved about one hour later.... Read more
26-Jan-2011
NATO says a coalition helicopter has landed on its side after experiencing mechanical trouble during takeoff from a military base in eastern Afghanistan. No injuries. Report from Poland quotes that “the helicopter was spinning on its axis” and fell to the ground, sustaining heavy damage.... Read more
27-Jan-2011
2 seriously injured, 1 minor injuries... Read more
27-Jan-2011
Pilot was José Manuel Covarruvias GarcÃa, 36, and hospitalised for assessment. Passenger was not named and not injured. Helicopter sustained damage to landing gear, the transmission system and the tail rotor. [Some translations of local language news reports wrongly quote the pilot as being killed]... Read more
28-Jan-2011
A Lebanese army helicopter made an emergency landing on the outskirts of the Akkar town of Jdeidet al-Qaitaa due to a technical malfunction... Read more
28-Jan-2011
Precautionary landing on school field after warning light illuminated. Timed at 3.30am local... Read more
29-Jan-2011
Precautionary landing for a potential mechanical problem.... Read more
29-Jan-2011
Rolled over on landing... Read more
31-Jan-2011
Emergency floats deployed and water landing after clipping aerial on take-off from superyacht “Octopus”. Subsequent tow in to port went wrong and helicopter turned over – video shows it being righted in the port prior to lifting out and onto a truck.... Read more
31-Jan-2011
The Pima County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that civilian pilot Loren Leonberger was pronounced dead at the scene of the PCSO helicopter crash near Avra Valley. Other occupants were Edwin Nettleton, 58, and Paul Panzica, 41, who were released from the hospital ahead of Larry Sayers, 64, who was seriously injured.... Read more
