8 killed in B205 crash

[Heliport]

LLEIDA, Spain
Eight people killed when a B205 carrying power line maintenance workers crashed in northeastern Spain around 1:00 p.m. (1100 GMT) on Friday in the Catalonia region.
The B205 crashed into an open field where it was found totally burned out. The victims included two employees of Helieuropa Services. Witness says the helicopter lost its tail after apparently striking a power cable.

Click here for CNN Report. (http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/06/14/spain.helicopter.crash.ap/index.html)

Very sad. :(

Any Rotorheads know Helieuropa Services?

[dwh001]

hi!
helieuropa services has a very bad reputation in spain, probably in relation with this, spanish civil aviation authority halted operations of this company.
sorry for the grammar

[matador]

Sorry to say that Helieuropa Service has a bad reputation in the helicopter bussines and also have to say that the helicopter was a military surplus from the Spanish Airforce formerly used as trainer in the helicopter school mostly for IFR.
The owner sadly holds a record on accidents in different companies through the years. Actually at least 4 pilots died flying helicopters owned by the same guy.
There is a big concern in the whole Spanish helicopter industry for this type of accidents make the general opinion to fear helicopters flights really hurting the rest of the companies.
First line of investigation is to really know if the`people on board was real "crew" for the helicopter was "restricted".

[Indy Cleo]

Could I suggest that the helicopter being restricted category had nothing to do with the accident. If it had been a civil 205 I am sure the end result of flying into wires would have been the same.

Just a thought.

[paco]

Quite right, but if the guy was bending the rules and doing normal public transport and not aerial work with people "essential to the operation", it makes it a lot worse.

You know, there's one (or more) of these in every country - if the authorities know about them, why can't they be stopped? I keep saying that there should be a qualification for management to be in charge - certainly business school, and especially decision-making courses.

Just another thought

Phil

[matador]

I do not doubt that "restricted" has to do with accidents, but when a private company buys a helicopter to do commercial bussiness and goes for restricted actually means in some way the attitude about spending money for the job. Most bogus parts around the world are mounted in restricted aicrafts. Anyway my point in the previous post was that the company that had the accident already has a sad record on fatal accidents and BTW the crash took place when the TAILBOOM COME APPART from the rest of the helicopter, there was no hitting any power line or any other thing. The flight plan was filled with 4 POB and actually there were 8 bodies in the crash ????? The work had been already done. Sorry have to go¡¡¡¡

[matador]

Sorry about the grammar and spelling in the previous post, I was in a hurry for I had to go for a mission.
I mean that Restricted doesn't have anything to do with accidents. The thing is that those aircrafts are much cheaper than non restricted, so if a company buys that type of a/c in some way means that they are trying to spend as little money as they can in mantaining them so they might end up bying bogus parts and munting componets that are quite doubtfull in logs( I do Know that not all operators follow the same rules but we all know that what i'm saying is quite true in many cases).