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Helicopter Crashes in Israel


Pictured: A Tamir Airways Piper PA-31-310 Turbo Navajo. The vehicle in the crash was a helicopter. Co-owner of Tamir Airways was killed in the crash.
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net
Contact photographer Michael Sender

What: Tamir Airways Robinson R44 en route from Tel Aviv Sde Dov airfield
Where: Sironit beach in Netanya, Israel
When: Nov 24, 2009
Who: 4 on board, the , Yoav Tamir from Tel Aviv and Ran Lapid from Nes Tziona, Hadar Shavit, 39, from the town of Lapid and a tourist from the UK.
Why: The investigation is considering a technical failure suspected to have caused the fatal accident and the possibility that the propeller broke in mid flight.

Pilot Ran Lapid, was an experienced helicopter pilot but human error is not ruled out as a cause.

Witnesses heard “an unusual noise” prior to the helicopter landing in the water and “saw it slowly descend toward the water…flip 90 degrees, the propeller hit the water and broke off and the helicopter dove into the water.”

There were no survivors but all the remains have been found.

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