What: Bell 206 Chopper
Where: Godhra, Gujarat, India
When: August 28, 2012
Who: 5 aboard, 2 injured, 0 fatalities
Why: On landing, the helicopter crashed and rolled. The pilot and one passenger were extricated from the chopper and rushed to the hospital. One of the passengers was Spiritual guru Asaram Bapu who was scheduled to speak at Godhra Science College.
As can be seen in the video below , the chopper rolls end over end on landing.
The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau of Ethiopia released the preliminary report on the crash Ethiopian Airlines flight 302, Boeing 737-8(MAX), ET-AVJ. The flight took off from Addis Ababa Bole Int. Airporten route for Nairobi, but the Angle of Attack sensor recorded value became erroneous. The crash resulted in 157 fatalities. The report is available here
A small plane crashed near Buckeye, Arizona, on June 27th.
Authorities said the plane was carrying two people when it went down in the Gila Bend Mountains.
Both occupants of the plane were killed in the crash.
The FAA and the NTSB are investigating.
What: Ponderosa Aviation Inc. Rockwell Commander 690A en route from Mesa, Ariz to Safford, Arizona
Where: Apache Junction, Pinal County, AZ
When: Nov 23, 2011
Who: 6 fatalities
Why: On a thanksgiving flight that took off at 6:15, the pilot was flying to Safford and struck a rockface at the Superstition mountains. The children’s mother, Karen Perry, was not aboard. The fuselage is jammed between rocks.
The victims of the crash included Joseph Hardwick, 22, mechanic; pilot and aircraft owner Russell Hardy, 31; pilot Shawn Perry, 39; and Perry’s three children, Morgan, 9, Logan, 8, and Luke, 6.
The plane had just left Mesa’s Falcon Field when it crashed. It is a six hour hike from a campground to the wreckage. A ten member sheriff’s rescue team was flown in by chopper, and hiked down from a mountaintop.
The flight path that the pilot took is a controversial one. The FAA redesignated Phoenix airspace, raising the floor altitude for commercial traffic at almost the same height as the tallest peak in the Superstitions (5,057 feet). Planes such as this one flying east from Mesa’s Falcon Field must either go around the peak or request permission to enter commercial airspace to fly above it.
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Follow this link to a knowledgeable article question/answer session by Tim Robinson from Aerospace International regarding the Sao Paulo plane crash
Or see the crash timeline.
Two Kathmandu-bound flights were grounded just before takeoff from Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, on January 27.
Authorities said the flights were grounded after the Jet Airways security office received a call saying there was a “bomb threat” to Jet Airways flight 9W 260 and Air India flight AI-215.
There were 122 passengers and 7 crew members aboard Jet Airways flight while the Air India plane was carrying 121 passengers at the time.
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.
