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.
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