News Copter Twin Squirrel Crash USA - what was the cause?

[Hueymeister]

Just seen the (old) video of the news chopper crashing in the States a couple of years back..what was the cause? Tried the FAA site but to no avail.

TTFN

[The Rotordog]

Well now. You'll have to give us something more to go on than "twin squirrel crash." Got an N-number? Rough date of occurence? Location (other than "U.S.")? Personally, I can't recall any Twinstar ENG crashes in the last couple of years. There was the recent single-Squirrel crash due to...uhh, well it was either a tail rotor failure or hydraulic failure, one or the other and the pilot didn't seem to know how to ascertain the difference... Then there was the EC-135 crash in the N.Y. area some years back caused by...uhh, well...you've got to read that one to believe it. Both were captured on video.

Hell, I don't know. Here's what you do: Go to:
NTSB Accident Synopses (http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/month.asp)

That will get you in the ballpark. At the bottom of that page is a link for a "Query Form." Type in what information you want and see what it spits out.

[zhishengji751]

this one?

Preliminary report:
AS-350BA, N4NY, operated as WNBC News Chopper 4 (http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20040512X00594&key=1 )

original thread here ->
Chopper 4 Crash in New York (incl videos) (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=129098)

[Chiplight]

A news chopper4 ship went into the Passaic River in New Jersey in Dec, 1998. I believe there was video of this one , too.

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20001211X11617&key=1

[Hueymeister]

Yep, that one. A colleague was asking about it. Was it Tail Rotor or Hyd failiure?

[2beers]

The NTSB report says nothing about initial failures of any of the helicopter-systems. To me it looks like they're spot on with their analysis of the EC-135 accident and that the failure seemed to be somewhere between ear no.1 and ear no.2 on the pilot.

But I could be wrong, it's happened before.

/2beers