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Military Helicopter Lands in Emergency near Hamilton-L.B. Owens Field

helicopterA UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter made an emergency landing in an open field near Jim Hamilton – L.B. Owens Airport, Columbia, South Carolina, at 4:18 p.m. on December 4.

The helicopter, assigned to the 1-111th General Aviation Support Battalion, S.C. Army National Guard military, had to make a precautionary landing after it experienced a main rotor blade malfunction. According to Major Cindi King with the SC National Guard, the helicopter was on a routine training mission at the time.

All the three people aboard remained safe.

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Helicopter Pilot Dies during Fair

Carl R Enlow was killed by a helicopter rotor at the Bloomsburg Pennsylvania town fair.

Enlow was a former military helicopter pilot who was giving rides. He was struck after his shift, in an accident. He was med-evaced by LifeFlight helicopter to Geisinger Medical Center where he died.

The Heritage Rotors LLC Enstrom F-28C helicopter was standing at the time of the accident, in the parking lot near gate five was in the process of gassing up between rides. Enlow was returning to the helicopter to speak to the next pilot when apparently his hat blew off and he reached for it.

The Bloomsburg Fair Association is donating their profit from the rides to Enlow’s widow, and a memorial fund is being arranged.

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Manang Air Crash in Nepal


Pictured: A Manang Air Mil Mi-8MTV-1
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net
Contact photographer Michael Fritz

What: Manang Air MI-17 helicopter
Where: Rodikot, Humla district in mid-western Nepal
When: 2009-11-15 11:30 a.m. local time
Who: 6 on board. 1 dies, 5 survivors.
Why: While attempting to land at the helipad while transporting grain and food items from Surkhet to a remote mountain village, the helicopter’s rear rotors hit the mountainside and the pilot lost control of the aircraft.

The death is reported to be a Russian engineer Sergei Kovyazo.

The others aboard—copilot Raju Bhandari, accountant Krishna Amatya, overseer Bishnu Bahadur Chaudhary, local resident Lok Bahadur and a Russian pilot—were via helicopter to a Nepalgunj hospital in Nepalgunj.