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Sunday, May 16, 2010 — admin
General Aviation (Part 91) Date/Location Aircraft/Reg. Narrative Casualties Comments 16 Apr Ukiah CA Brantly B2 Reg:N5986X Pilot was testing the engine when the helicopter lifted briefly off the ground and flipped onto its right side. 1 Minor Helicopter sustained substantial damage. Foreign Accidents (Part 129) Date/Location Aircraft/Reg. Narrative Casualties Comments 11 Apr Anjozorobe MADAGASCAR Madagascar Helicopter-operated Sud Aviation SA318C Alouette II Astazou Reg:5R-MHY Helicopter crashed under unknown circumstances. 2 Fatal Helicopter was destroyed. 11 Apr Archerfield Airport AUSTRALIA Robinson R44 Raven II Reg: VH-LTE Helicopter approached the [...]
What Causes Helicopter Accidents?
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 — David Evans
Helicopter accidents occur for a variety of reasons, usually resulting from a penetration of more than one layer of safety defenses. The barriers to an accident are often described as slices of Swiss cheese, where a breach is described as a hole in the cheese. When one or more holes line up, enabling a concatenation [...]
Parents’ Thoughts on Helicopter Ambulance Safety
Friday, October 23, 2009 — Robert and Brooke Blockinger
Near midnight on October 15, 2008, an Air Angels emergency medical service (EMS) helicopter collided with a transmission tower near Aurora, Ill., en route at night from Valley West Hospital in Sandwich, Ill., to Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. At the controls of the Bell 222 was a single pilot who was killed. Also killed in [...]
Despite Recent Recommendations, Helicopter Ambulance Safety Remains an Elusive Enigma
Monday, September 7, 2009 — David Evans
When safety has been shortchanged, shout the alarm louder and to more agencies. That seems to be the strategy of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which issued a battery of 19 recommendations concerning helicopter ambulances on 1 September, adding to four recommendations previously issued to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), where promises for action [...]
Some Thoughts on Helicopter Ambulance Safety
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 — David Evans
The parents of an infant killed in a medical helicopter crash talk about the general lack of safety surrounding these operations, of which they were not aware before the tragedy.
The Excessive Risk in Air Rescue
Friday, January 30, 2009 — James E. Hall
Like the rest of the country, I was deeply saddened by the fatal crash of an emergency medical services (EMS) Eurocopter Dauphin II helicopter on September 28 in Maryland which killed four and left another in critical condition. But as a former Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, this trend is anything but shocking. This [...]
Dangerous Trends Continue in Commercial Helicopter Safety
Thursday, October 23, 2008 — Thomas J. Ellis
In 2007, there were 49 deaths from helicopter accidents in the United States. According to statistics provided by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), these 49 deaths came from only 24 separate accidents. This figure represents slightly more than 12% of the 191 helicopter accidents and incidents investigated by the NTSB that same year. Operation Fatal Accidents Total [...]
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