Originally Posted by
helispotter
Perhaps more interesting, in a discussion about drones and VRS, there was a link to this full scale AS350 accident footage from inside the helicopter. Title on YouTube attributes accident to VRS but description and comments provide few other details:
https://youtu.be/mP72wdgq5PU
I tried to work out which helicopter it was. While N4075S is shown earlier in the footage, this doesn't seem to be the one involved in the accident which instead may have registration N?094S which is partly visible on cowling towards the end of the video. These helicopters appear to be operated by Sunshine Helicopters in Hawaii. ASN reports on the accident of N6094H in Hawaii on 17 June 2014 which sort of fits the description in this video, but the "H" in rego doesn't match rego seen in footage and the video was apparently posted 1 June 2012 so accident must pre-date it. Anybody know this case? Perhaps it has been discussed to death on PPRuNe already, but I couldn't find a thread after some key word searching.
Maybe this one and the earlier portions of the event are missing in the video. Picture quality looks like 2000! It was also a definite loss of power event and nothing to do with VRS, I'd say.
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/30181