Helicopter down - South Korea July 2014

[CISTRS]

BBC reporting helicopter down in South Korea.

Below from ABC News website:


A firefighting helicopter crashed Thursday near an apartment complex and school in the southern South Korean city of Gwangju, killing five people, officials said.

The helicopter was returning to headquarters in the eastern provincial firefighting agency after participating in search operations for 11 people still missing after a ferry sinking that killed more than 290 in April, fire officials in Gwangju said speaking on condition of anonymity because of office rules.

The crash killed all five fire officers aboard the helicopter, while a female high school student on the ground received a minor injury, the officials said.

An official at the firefighting agency in the eastern Gwangwon province said the five dead officers took the helicopter Monday when they left for search operations for the missing people from the ferry disaster. He also spoke on condition of anonymity line with department rules.

[iuk1963]

ASN Aircraft accident 17-JUL-2014 Eurocopter AS365 N3 Dauphin GW001 (http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=167949)

[espresso drinker]

iuk1963, thanks for the link, as i wanted to know the aricraft type but was struggling to get the info online. Sad news:(

[helihub]

Registration was HL9461 - the GW001 quoted by ASN is only a fleet code. There was sadly not very much left of this helicopter after it was consumed by fire

http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/thumbnail/960/img/photos/2014/07/16/dc/c6/59980babc2ab437681e5bbe638676ef2-6bfd2f872b09485d824c98f4d10ac400-1.jpg

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/0/1/1/2441110.jpg

[army_av8r]

Video is beginning to circulate online of the final few seconds of this flight captured from a dashcam/ security camera at street level. it appears to be rainy day/ VFR, aircraft enters the frame vertically in a steep(about 70 degrees) nose down attitude. it looks like the aircraft is level with regards to bank angle, and based on the shapes you can make out in the video it looks to be upright. video is too grainy to see if main rotor has any Rotor RPM, and there was no change in flight path during the few frames that the aircraft is visible. LiveLeak.com - Helicopter Crash Caught on Cam (2 angles, Watch the Vertical Fall)

RIP

[HeliHenri]

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:eek: :eek: :( :(

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[SansAnhedral]

Can't see rotors in the video, at that speed, its almost a ballistic trajectory. Could have been main rotor separation at Vcruise.

[Gomer Pylot]

That video isn't of the Korean crash. That's Japan, unknown date, not Korea.

[John Eacott]

That video isn't of the Korean crash. That's Japan, unknown date, not Korea.

Are you sure of that? At 1:30 in the video they show the EMS machine from archive footage.

Plus they drive on the left in Japan, the video shows traffic on the right of the road.

[Gomer Pylot]

It's hard to see the signs in the video, but I didn't see any that I could identify as Hangul. They looked more like Japanese Kanja, but I can't be sure from the low video quality. The report is certainly in Japanese.

[army_av8r]

im not 100% sure, but im VERY confident that the video i linked was in reference to the recent events. i dont read or speak anything but english but based on the photos of the scene and the video i have seen, it appears to be the same location. it also seems to me that i can make out Rotor blades in the crash aftermath photos, which indicates a potential loss of drive to main rotor and subsequent loss of control, or major control malfunction.

[John Eacott]

China TV are using the same footage:

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The speed and angle of descent are truly awful; what can have caused such a loss of control will take some investigation, I'm sure.

[Gomer Pylot]

The text in that picture is certainly Korean Hangul, and the spoken language is Korean. It seems my initial impressions from the Japanese video were wrong.

[heliboy999]

Moment South Korean helicopter nose dives and crashes | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1106227/Moment-South-Korean-helicopter-nose-dives-crashes.html)

Shows some stills pictures as well. Not very clear but its hard to see the tail assembly even though its present at the crash site (Picture in earlier post)

R.I.P. The crew.

[mickjoebill]

Height of the adjacent 20 story building (approx 200ft) x time approx 1/2 a second. :eek:


Mickjoebill

[satsuma]

Absolutely horrendous. Are any operators grounding their Dauphins until more is known?

[PerAsperaAdAstra]

Thundering free turbines that looked bad :sad: Control problem? Must have been well past VNE? No chance it seems, of recovery there. Tough to investigate with what's left. No Mayday or report by pilot to ATC on what was the problem?

[henra]

Not very clear but its hard to see the tail assembly even though its present at the crash site (Picture in earlier post)




That's what struck me as well. The whole tail looks strange (Fins missing?).

[cpt]

Not too surprising if fins are missing after such an impact ! ....horizontal stabilizer already had a tendency to fly away on its own....

Does anyone got news on the 365 crash off shore of Ghana few weeks ago ?

[PerAsperaAdAstra]

If you look at the feet of the firemen on the left in the picture, that looks like the gearbox of the Venistron fan tail rotor, as you can also see what seems to be the CF blade stubbs stil attached. So seems it was still attached.

[satsuma]

Collision avec la surface de la mer, according to this


http://www.bea.aero/fr/enquetes/2014/2014.semaine.20.pdf


Doesn't say what caused la collision.

[maeroda]

Satsuma, that's the report of a Ghana accident.

[satsuma]

maeroda, that's because someone asked a question about the Ghana accident. Good to see you're concentrating though.

[John R81]

And the off-thread cross-reference is clearly marked:ok:

[maeroda]

Satsuma,

I'm sorry, you're right and I apologizes.

[megan]

Not so many years ago there was a video of a Dauphin, think in either China or Taiwan, that was shown in something like a 70° dive and impacting next to a street in a built up area. Interested in the result of the investigation. Searched everywhere for the video and thread without luck.

[Adam Nams]

This one from South Korea? 17 July 2014.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhbKVblwgQ0


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[megan]

Many thanks Adam, that's the one. Accident report anyone?