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Helicopter Crashes in Baltic, One Survivor

A Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht-operated MBB BK 117C-1 helicopter training out of Güttin airfield on Rügen island fell from the sky.

The German Martime Search and Rescue Service was on a training mission in Christoph Offshore 2 chopper when the helicopter lost altitude and fell into the Baltic. Two pilots and two passengers, a doctor and a rescue assistant, were aboard.

Both of the pilots were rescued, but one died shortly afterwards. The second pilot is suffering from hypothermia. Overnight, divers flew aboard a helicopter to the crash site and retrieved the doctor and rescue assistant’s bodies from inside the helicopter.

Several vessels were involved in the rescue, as well as air support.

The helicopter was stationed on Rügen for energy companies with wind turbines in the Baltic Sea.

The MBB BK 112 is a joint development between Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) of Germany and Kawasaki of Japan.

The following video is of Christoph 43.

Sunrise Airlines Helicopters Crashes in Taiwan


On Oct 16, 2013, a Sunrise Airlines Kawasaki BK helicopter with 3 aboard crashed on Jade Mountain, Taiwan.

Two pilots and a passenger were aboard at the time of the crash. THe helicopter was porting supplies to the Central Weather Bureau’s observation station on Yushan.

The crash victims were named: pilot Chang Kuo-kang, co-pilot Lin Yi-chi and bureau worker Chen Wen-chung. Chang had 3,181 hours of flying and Lin had 2,832 hours.

The helicopter was planning on making 3 runs, delivering one person at a time to the weather station, but crashed on the second run at 8:05 a.m. Within an hour of missing the 2nd arrival, the wreckage had been located.

The twenty-three year old Kawasaki BK helicopter had been checked thirteen days before the mission, and had passed its check.

Petronorte helicopter Crash


On July 9, 2013 around 9 a.m., a Petronorte MBB/Kawasaki BK 117A-4 was en route to repair the Caño Limon oil pipeline when it crashed near the town of Ocaña in the Norte de Santander, Colombia.

Five people were aboard the helicopter when it crashed.

The damage to the oil pipeline was the result of a FARC attack. The helicopter may have also been attacked but the stories are conflicting. Another report mentions the helicopter striking electrical wires.

The army assisted the oil company with retrieval of the three crewmembers and two petroleum technical workers who died in the crash.

Civil Aeronautics is investigating.


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S African Helicopter Crash, 7 lost


Pictured: A SAPS
MBB BO-105CBS-4

Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net
Contact photographer Lonell Swatton

What: South African Police Service MBB-BK 117-B1 Helicopter
Where: Open field about 4km from Witbank, Mpumalanga, South Africa
When: 23-JUL-2010
Who: 7 fatalities
Why: 5 National Intervention Unit police officers, a pilot and a crew member died in a crash whose details are sketchy. The helicopter was one of two that were en route to assist local police in Witbank where armed thieves had just robbed a local supermarket. One helicopter arrived safely and ended up in a gun battle. The other, according to witnesses, exploded in mid-air and crashed.

Paramedics from ER24 were dispatched to an open field where the helicopter was already burned beyond recognition.

A piece of the tail was found 150 meters from the wreckage.

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