What: Front Range Helicopters
Where: near Mount Morrison
When: April 04, 2010
Who: Pilot instructor 29-year-old Jesse Whitsett of Fort Collins and student Michael McDonald
Why: The student was practicing a “remote site landing,” a move required for a license. McDonald was practicing to get his license.
After the crash, the pilot radioed in his location. Neither instructor nor student was seriously injured, although McDonald did go to the hospital.
A U.S. built Robinson 44 helicopter crashed into waters in central Denmark, near the eastern coast of Samsoe Island, on September 5.
The authorities believe that the private helicopter was en-route to Samsoe with 4 people aboard when it crashed.
Three dead bodies have so far been recovered from the sea, while the search for the fourth person is underway.
The identities of victims and the information regarding ownership of the helicopter has not yet been released.
The cause of crash is under investigation.
What: Pulsar group Super Cruiser YS 300 ED plane en route from Ilopango
Where: Changallo, El Salvador
When: May 14, 2011
Who: 3 fatalities
Why: The Pulsar Aircraft Super Cruiser plane climbed to an altitude of about 500 feet and crashed about 500 meters from the landing strip south of the airport. Fatalities included Yaron Degani, a 56-year-old Israeli businessman who manufactured small planes, and two businessmen—Lee Yen, 49, and Yu Wen Kao, 42— in Salvador on business on behalf of a Chinese aircraft company from Wuxi.
Currently, there are five reported survivors: the flight crew of three, and a woman with a child.
The flight manifest lists 28 aboard, including 9 children plus 2 infants.
A dense fog and heavy rains hampered search crews that included Mi-8 helicopters, an AN-26 plane and an An-74.
Deputy of parliament of Yakutia Alexander Morozkin and the head of Republican investment company Victor Yefimov may be aboard. The pilot’s name is Mikhail Nikolaevich. The extent of his injuries have not been released.
A single-engine Embraer-720C plane crashed into a house in Balsas, Maranhao state, in northeastern Brazil, at about 6:19 a.m. on August 3.
The plane was transporting an elderly sick lady and her relatives to a hospital when it crashed.
All five people aboard the plane were killed. The victims included the pilot, Delano Martins Coelho, 36, his fiancée and nurse, Lorena Alves de Lima, 22, an 87 year old sick lady Maria de Jesus Cruz e Silva who was being shifted from a hospital in Balsas to another in Piaui, her daughter, Francisca Pereira e Silva and one of her grandsons, Alan Patrick Silva Setulvedo.
The house hit by the plane was occupied by three people. However, none of them was hurt.
The cause of the crash is not yet known.
On March 15, 2013, an Era Helicopters LLC Sikorsky S-76A with three board crashed just before noon in Cameron Parish Louisiana in a remote area of swampy/muddy pastureland with only four-wheeler access.
The helicopter had taken off from Lake Charles Regional Airport. Emergency services responded to the scene, but access was limited to 4 wheel vehicles.
The helicopter was on a maintenance test flight with the pilot and two mechanics aboard. The fatalities were listed as the pilot, William R. Croucher, 69, of California; and two mechanics: Michael Lee Tyree, 55, of Iowa, La., and Timothy Lloyd Goehring, 41, of Sulphur, La.
Era helicopters normally provides transport to oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska, but this flight was reported as a maintenance flight.
THe FAA and the NTSB are investigating.
Era Helicopter’s statement:
“We deeply regret this unfortunate accident and we will use all of our resources to support the families of those involved. Our review will continue in concert with the investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, which has jurisdiction over this matter”
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What: Renaud Écalle’s Jodel DR 1050
Where: between Jonzac Neulles and Salon-Eyguières, in Aude, France
When: Oct 3 2010
Who: 4 aboard, all fatalities (Renaud Écalle, wife and family)
Why: Renaud Écalle was returning from an aerobatic show performance at Jonzac when he encountered storms and high wind. The pilot lost contact with Montpellier ATC at 17:30 Sunday; rescue services located the wreckage
