What: Helicopter, from Bristow Academy, a helicopter flight school located at the Space Coast Regional Airport
Where: Landing occurred off Highway 50, west of Interstate 95 in a marshy area in Brevard County.
When: 11:45 a.m. Thursday
Who: The helicopter was carrying an instructor and a student on a training exercise. Neither was injured but both were transported to Parrish Medical Center
Why: When helicopter came in for a landing, it skidded in the marsh.
Malmo Aviation flight TF-9887 had to return for a safe landing at Cologne Bonn Airport, Cologne, North Rhine- Westphalia, Germany on February 13.
The Avro RJ-100, heading from Cologne to Malmo, Sweden, was mid-air when the crew reported some problem with its gear, causing it to return.
The plane landed safely.
All people aboard remained unhurt.
A helicopter carrying two hog hunters crash landed in Coryell County, Texas, on March 30.
According to the department of Public Safety, the helicopter crash landed at about 11:45 am in a field west of Moody in Coryell County. The passengers exited safely.
The cause of crash landing is still unknown.
What: Blue Hawaiian EUROCOPTER EC130 tour helicopter on Maui
Where: in a sugar field half a mile east of Kahului Airport
When: Monday November 16
Who: pilot and 6 passengers
Why: The helicopter experienced engine problems, forcing an emergency situation. On landing, the helicopter sustained minor damage to its tail boom.
No one aboard was injured.
What: Bailey Helicopters Ltd.Eurocopter AS 350B2 AStar flying out of CYXJ/Fort St John General Airport
Where: Sleeping Beauty Mountain. Terrace BC, Canada
When: June 1, 2012
Who: 3 aboard, 3 fatalities
Why: At nine oclock, ATC lost contact with a training flight flown by 45-year-old Peter Bryant. Two other Bailey Helicopter employees were also aboard.
A search and rescue team including a Canadian Armed Forces Buffalo fixed-wing aircraft and a Cormorant helicopter out of Comox were all deployed to the electronic flight tracking system location and confirmed that the Eurocopter crashed in poor weather (described as “horrible”) into Sleeping Beauty Mountain. The area was undergoing rain and snow, and considered unsafe by an avalanche technician. One rescue searcher hiked to the crash site.
The remains have now been recovered, though it was a hazardous recovery, during which an avalanche occurred.
On December 18, 2012, the crew aboard a RCAF Cormorant search and rescue found and rescued a snowboarder stranded in a steep ravine between Horseshoe Bay and Lions Bay, British Columbia.
In poor visibility and blowing snow, the 442 Transport and Rescue Squad hoisted Search and Rescue Teams 300 feet through trees to the waiting snowboarder who was retrieved, then flown to Vancouver International Airport and handed over to B.C. Ambulance.
