Air Greenland engine failure

[teleport]

http://politiken.dk/indland/article286322.ece

reports of a rough forced landing as an Air Greenland Sikorsky suffered engine failure.
Noone was injured. :)

There is a photo shot by a passenger.

http://politiken.dk/archive/00184/helo_184214c.jpg



Link is to a Danish language Politiken newspaper website:
Translated it states: forced landing near Ilulissat. 24 passengers evacuated by another helicopter back to Ilulissat. The Sikorsky S61 was attempting to land when the nose hit a cliff wall, resulting in the tail impacting the ground hard. Helicopter remains at the site.

[bell222]

above link does not work any ideas ? thanks

[Stringfellow Dork]

Too many https's in the above link. Try this. (http://politiken.dk/indland/article286322.ece) (The article is not in English btw!)

[bell222]

language barrier there :D but at least no one was hurt:D

[flyer43]

Not that this will make it much clearer to anybody, but I found an on-line translator which offers webpage translation from Danish to English.
Click here (http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran?type=url&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitiken.dk%2Findland%2Farticle286322.ece&text=&from=dan&to=eng)and it should open the webpage - loosely translated into english......
You'll need to scroll down the page to find the actual article.

[bell222]

loosely being the word

[Flaxton Flyer]

As I am bored today, I have translated it for you into acceptable-ish English. One of the (few) advantages of once having been married to a Dane!

A helicopter from Air Greenland suffered an engine failure whilst landing and crashed on rocks close to the landing area in Ilulissat. No-one was injured.

The nose of the helicopter hit the rocks before the machine crashed onto them.

That was how one of the passengers described the terrifying crash landing, which an Air Greenland helicopter suffered today near the Ilulissat glacier on Greenland.

None of the 24 passengers – including a group of Politiken customers taking part in a trip arranged by this newspaper – were injured during the crash. They were quickly evacuated from the stricken machine and taken back to Ililissat on another helicopter.

Engine failure on landing

The accident happened as the machine, a Sikorsky S61 was coming in to land by the glacier about 50km from Ilulissat on the west coast, when it suddenly came too close to a rocky outcrop and went down.

The reason was apparantly that one of the engines cut out during the landing manoeuvre and the helicopter’s nose hit the rocks then the tail hit the ground hard.

The passengers were quickly ordered to leave the aircraft, which was evacuated within a minute or two. Nobody was injured.

Reduction in helicopter traffic.

The helicopter is now secured, as it cannot fly to the workshop under it’s own power.

After the accident, the passengers were taken to the Arctic Hotel, where the captain explained what had actually happened when the machine’s engine stopped and it went down.

Air Greenland now must put in place a different timetable, until this helicopter or a replacement machine can be put into service.

FF

[bell222]

thanks very much

[Brilliant Stuff]

Glad to hear noone got hurt.

[Aesir]

My sources say that they had a engine #2 driveshaft fail under landing.

Good save by the pilots, could have ended badly in this area.

24 passengers on board and no one hurt.

Air Greenland operates three S-61 helicopters.

[Mars]

Wonder why it was not operating in PC1 (more than 19 passengers) as specified in the regulations?

Mars

[sox6]

Mars - I'd ask JimL or the EHA;)

[Outwest]

The one engine failure I had in 20 years on the 61 was for exactly the same reason and at about the same time after overhaul. Luckily for me I was lightly loaded at the time and a single engine landing was a non-event.

Sounds like the R&O manual for the CT58 needs a BIG caution note :ugh: