Helicopter crashed after being shot down by rebels... Read more
Bird strike to upper cowling and rotor system, during night flight. Maintenance cleaned and inspected finding no damage... Read more
Ground impact during training flight... Read more
Pilot Gregory Rumohr, 51, of Rio Vista in Johnson County, was uninjured in the accident which was reported due to engine failure... Read more
Tail rotor struck ground. Helicopter had been working on powerlines at the time of the accident. Helicopter caught fire and burned out – also causing a 1.5 acre brush fire... Read more
Struck power cables on climb out of field. The severed cables caused a small fire. Helicopter landed very heavily on its skids, starboard skid low CADAORS ref 2012C4146... Read more
R44 extensively damaged and all three POB to hospital with injuries. Helicopter ended up on its port side (see photos)... Read more
Crashed into lake after contacting zip wire which spans the lake. One drowned (named as Daniel Segundo Martinez), four survived. Helicopter was being used to capture video footage of the lake for use on a television program... Read more
Helicopter crashed in mountainous region, killing the sole occupant pilot. There was a post-crash fire.... Read more
Pilot lost control in the hover, helicopter crashed and burnt out... Read more
Tail rotor contacted crop during agricultural operations, pilot lost control and helicopter crashed. Aircraft destroyed.... Read more
Just after landing, the heat of the exhaust caused the grass where the R44 had landed to catch fire, ultimately consuming the helicopter. CADAORS ref 2012C4261... Read more
Landed dangerously close to previously-identified hazard during brown-out landing at night. Pilot elected to wait for daylight to depart and patient went to medical facility by ground ambulance... Read more
Tail struck ground during hover... Read more
Crashed into cornfield, burning out and killing sole occupant pilot named as Michael Scarfia.... Read more
Skid caught ground on take-off – helicopter rolled-over onto its side... Read more
Helicopter was subject to small arms fire from the ground and was badly damaged. Four of the nine passengers sustained gunshot related injuries. CADAORS ref 2012C4147... Read more
emergency landing due to bad weather... Read more
Tail rotor struck sand bank on take-off.  Substantial damage included the tail rotor, tailboom, tail rotor gearbox, horizontal stabilizer, 1 main rotor blade and the long shaft. CADAORS ref 2012Q2152... Read more
Lost control in the hover... Read more
Helicopter crashed and burnt out. Both occupants killed – later named here as Christopher John Yeager, 40, the pilot of Houston and Joyce Ann Ates, 60, a photographer from Midwest City, Oklahoma.... Read more
Skid snagged ground taking off from sloping ground, causing helicopter to turn onto its side. Debris from helicopter killed... Read more
Lost power and forced to land in a field. Main blades hit tail boom... Read more
Bird strike... Read more
Mountainous region, poor weather, 4 killed... Read more
Crashed after losing control in the hover... Read more
Night bird strike, cracking search light housing. Landed safely... Read more
Main blades severed tail boom during landing. CADAORS ref 2012P1524... Read more
“An ISAF helicopter has crashed in eastern Afghanistan, resulting in two ISAF fatalities. We are investigating,” a spokesman for NATO’s U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force said. The two casualties were later named as Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jose L. Montenegro Jr., 31, of Houston, Texas, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Thalia S. Ramirez, 28, of... Read more
Substantially damaged in training accident. The Instructor and student were transported to a hospital for medical evaluation and were later released with minor injuries.... Read more
R44 routing from Switzerland through France to Spain. Had taken off from Clermont-Ferrand, destination Le Luc in the Var region. Father and son killed in the accident. Controlled flight into terrain. Aircraft destroyed... Read more
Piloted by Commander Paulo Loureiro and the co-pilot Diogo Cabral – and involved in firefighting when it crashed.... Read more
Accident caused the deaths of the captain of the aircraft, chief-inspector Tiago Casimiro, his assistant, João Adelino João Brandão, as well as the workers of the Provincial Electoral Commission, Lourenço Mussenoho and Maria Augusta João.... 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
Tail rotor drive shaft sheared... Read more
Hit by laser while circling potential EZ landing site. Source identified, arrest made... Read more
Four injured when helicopter came down after hitting cables. The helicopter was involved in maintenance work on the cables. Two were “ejected”, from an underslung cradle, and two were in the helicopter. Pilot Joel Prisse has dislocated shoulder and crew Philippe Pournin has multiple lower limb fractures. Aircraft destroyed... Read more
State Police Trooper/pilot Trooper Thomas A. Shultz, 41, was injured in a very heavy landing after “he experienced an in-flight mechanical emergency.” Photo shows skids splayed out after landing in a wooded area... Read more
Two Mi-17 helicopters hit each other on take off on a training mission from an air base near the village of Sarmat in Jamnagar district of Gujarat state. 9 killed, assumed currently as 4 in one helicopter and 5 in the other. One helicopter caught fire and completely burned out, the other did not –... Read more
Two Mi-17 helicopters hit each other on take off on a training mission from an air base near the village of Sarmat in Jamnagar district of Gujarat state. 9 killed, assumed currently as 4 in one helicopter and 5 in the other. One helicopter caught fire and completely burned out, the other did not –... Read more
Two Australian special forces officers were killed when their helicopter crashed in Helmand Province. The pair were named in Australian press as Private Nathanael Galagher and Lance Corporal Mervyn McDonald.  Initial reporting indicates there was no insurgent action in the area at the time of the incident which could be related to the crash.... Read more
Force landing in corn field. No apparent damage.... Read more
Emergency landing after loss of engine power while on agricultural operations... Read more
Helicopter landed with considerable forward speed and cartwheeled over its nose on landing – indicating skids possible dug into ground. Helicopter destroyed but all 5 POB (including spiritual leader Asaram Bapu) safely exited with only minor injuries... Read more
Bird strike reported to FAA. Landed without any further incident... Read more
Attempting to land in the regional command-east section of Afghanistan when the “non-hostile incident” occurred.... Read more
Emergency landing after pilot had indication of system malfunction... Read more
Shot down by rebels... Read more
Safe landing with 16 POB plus crew after smoke was noticed in the cockpit – later discovered as the aircon unit burning out.... Read more
Pilot Bill Cavanaugh, was taken to San Joaquin General Hospital following crash on agricultural operations. His son told a TV station that his father had over 20,000 hours of flying experience... Read more
Emergency landing of media helicopter due to oil leak and heavy smoke flume in the air. Helicopter was operating for KTLA Channel 5. Pilot was Tim Lynn... Read more
Safe night emergency landing made in sports field after bird strike caused 24 inch diameter hole in windshield... Read more
Helicopter crashed about 6 miles from the Iraqi border in northwestern Iran. Four killed – one Revolutionary Guard member and three crew members. Bell 214 as a type is not fully confirmed... Read more
Starboard cargo door opened and object fell out and struck tail rotor. Emergency landing made without further incident. Helicopter fitted with SpacePod cargo doors.... Read more
Struck low-level power cables on final approach due to the pilot having the sun in his eyes. Helicopter ended on starboard side. 60- year old pilot suffered concussion, head injury and scratches... Read more
Crashed into lake shortly after take-off around 10.20pm – after dropping off six passengers at helicopter owner’s home. Sole occupant pilot was named in local press as Bill R. Starnes, 64 (see obituary)... Read more
Intoxicated person approached helicopter outside pilot’s peripheral vision while at flight idle and with the patient on board being stabilised. New helipad lacked chain or fence to stop anyone approaching pad, which is adjacent to public-access area... Read more
Transmission chip light came on. Power reduce and an emergency landing was made at Pope Army Airfield which was about 3-4 miles away without further incident... Read more
Crashed during a training exercise at an airfield near the capital Astana and caught fire.... Read more
High level of vibrations during landing phase. Helicopter landed hard and rolled over.... Read more
#2 engine low oil pressure illuminated and engine lost power in landing phase. Otherwise uneventful landing... Read more
Two occupants, substantially damaged... Read more
Damaged on the ground by “indirect fire round”... Read more
Emergency landing into water 1m deep while on search for light aircraft – one of whose occupants was Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo. Â Â The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) identified the five people on board the helicopter as Navy pilots Lt. Rowene Colita, Lt. Jg. Nelson Alquiza, co-pilot; AD3 (Aviation Machinest-3) Rodrigo Gernale, AD2 Leo Calmante... Read more
Came down suddenly short of intended landing point while on approach on a training flight. Student Edvaldo Francisco dos Santos (a Major in the Military Police), 46, suffered a fractured spine, and flight instructor John Bosco da Cunha, 62, a fractured right tibia.... Read more
Kawasaki-built 500C crashed in open field, main rotor having cut tail boom. 69-year-old pilot and a 43-year-old passenger suffered minor injuries but managed to walk to a nearby home to raise the alarm... Read more
Emergency landing made in forest area, helicopter ended up on its side heavily damaged. Wedding flight – groom Danilo Everson dos Santos Rosa and the bride’s mother Maria de Lourdes Rosa, 49, were the passengers. Pilot was Rodrigo Batista Lemos, age 32. All three to hospital... Read more
Loss of control landing in strong winds – main blades hit building... Read more
Main driveshaft failure in low level hover... Read more
Lack of fuel. The helicopter landed hard and the main rotor blades contacted and severed the tail boom, forward of the tail rotor assembly.... Read more
Training flight, reportedly practicing autorotations. CFI Gary Hansen sustained bad head injuries, student only minor injuries.... Read more
Helicopter crashed during a firefight with insurgents in a remote area of southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing seven Americans and four Afghans... Read more
Crashed from a low hover, moderate damage, no injuries... Read more
Door fell off on take off. Landed without further incident... Read more
aircraft was forced to carry out an emergency landing near the Tel Nof airbase south of Tel Aviv... Read more
