Given the helicopter is registered to Santa Rosa CA, the HeliHub.com team believes the FAA prelim report may be incorrect listing the state as NM... Read more
During a manually flown SAR mission, in mountainous terrain, the aircraft entered IMC. While attempting to exit these conditions on a pre-briefed escape heading with the autopilot coupled, the autopilot entered an unexpected mode that resulted in the aircraft not responding as intended. The autopilot was disconnected and the flight continued manually without further incident.... Read more
The three fatalities were aircraft commander Lt. Sean D. Krueger, 33, of Waterboro, Maine; Aviation Maintenance Technician, First Class Adam C. Hoke, 40, of Great Falls, Mont.; and Aviation Maintenance Technician, Second Class Brett M. Banks, 33, Green River, Wyo. The helicopter’s co-pilot, Lt. Lance D. Leone, 29, of Ventura, Calif., survived. See also later... Read more
Main blades hit tree during firefighting ops... Read more
Crashed into harbour, all passengers got out OK. Final report from investigation... Read more
Privates Tim Aplin, Ben Chuck and Scott Palmer from the Special Operations Task Group were killed and seven injured when a coalition helicopter crashed. A NATO soldier also lost his life in the incident which occurred at 3.39am Afghanistan time. Initial reports quoted location as “Northern Kandahar” and later reports as “Uruzgan Province”... Read more
Door opened in flight at 700 ft agl. Items fell out, some striking person on the ground and rendering them unconscious... Read more
Fourth digit of registration is not confirmed (see photos at URL2). Options are 20558, 20568, 20588 or 20598... Read more
Local press reports seem undecided whether there were 3 or 4 or 5 fatalities... Read more
This is a Texas Helicopters M74 conversion of a Bell 47... Read more
4 fatalities in the accident, 5th died later as a result of injuries (report)... Read more
