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Old 30th March 2011 | 21:40
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muermel
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Bad day for the helicopter community

Additionally to the accidents already mentioned here, there has been 2 further ones.

Swiss Air Force Cougar crashed on glacier:

20 Minuten Online - Erster Pilot nach Heli-Absturz geborgen - Zentralschweiz (in German)

Short translation:

Swiss Air Force helicopter crashed on glacier; pilots trapped after crash, both are heavily injured; one of them and loadmaster/crewchief flown to hospital; one still trapped in wreckage but emergency doctor taking care of him; weather was quite bad, first EMS helicopter couldn't land at site before 1800 local time; distress signal was first received at 1545 local time.



R-44 crashed in southern Germany

A R-44 crashed while attending to land or take off (no info on that), only that it crashed from low height. 60 year old pilot and 48 old passenger both ok. After crash fire damaged hangar buildings and consumed the wreckage of the helicopter.

Hubschrauberabsturz in Straubing - Polizeischlagzeilen - nordbayern.de (in German)


Quite a bad day
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