2nd crash in Germany within 1 week
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2nd crash in Germany within 1 week
Today "Christoph51" a Bk117 ambulance ship of Team DRF based in Stuttgart crashed in the vicinity of Kirchheim killing all 4 on board.
This is the second sad accident in Germany within one week.
Last week an Eurocopter AS350B2 crashed when conducting dust liming (1 injured).
This is the second sad accident in Germany within one week.
Last week an Eurocopter AS350B2 crashed when conducting dust liming (1 injured).
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From n-tv.de (Google translation)
"With the crash of a helicopter of the Germans rescue in the proximity of Weilheim/Teck (Baden-Wuerttemberg) on Wednesday all four passengers died. According to police data three crew members - the pilot, an emergency surgeon and a rescue medic - as well as a 28 years old female patient died. The woman had been fetched from a hospital in Gerlingen and should to Munich to the clinical center Grosshadern for subsequent treatment be flown, like the spokeswoman of the Germans is awake, Petra Hentschel, said. "so far I white, gave it the last funkkontakt with the pilot at 11.03 to o'clock, as the machine flew off." "after eye-witness reports the helicopter touched several treetops, fell then, smashed and in fire guessed/advised", said Fritz flour of the Esslinger police. The cause of accident was first unclear. The machine of the type UC 117 fell against 11.15 o'clock in a hard-to-travel area at the edge of the Swabian Alb. At the misfortune place a fire broke out. Rescue forces hurried to the crash place and deleted the fire. The helicopter with the radio name "Christoph 51" is inserted use the air rescue according to standard, said Hentschel. It is stationed in the range of the emergency rescue and for the transport of patients between hospitals in use and to Stuttgart airport."
My condolences to the family and friends of the people involved.
BM
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"With the crash of a helicopter of the Germans rescue in the proximity of Weilheim/Teck (Baden-Wuerttemberg) on Wednesday all four passengers died. According to police data three crew members - the pilot, an emergency surgeon and a rescue medic - as well as a 28 years old female patient died. The woman had been fetched from a hospital in Gerlingen and should to Munich to the clinical center Grosshadern for subsequent treatment be flown, like the spokeswoman of the Germans is awake, Petra Hentschel, said. "so far I white, gave it the last funkkontakt with the pilot at 11.03 to o'clock, as the machine flew off." "after eye-witness reports the helicopter touched several treetops, fell then, smashed and in fire guessed/advised", said Fritz flour of the Esslinger police. The cause of accident was first unclear. The machine of the type UC 117 fell against 11.15 o'clock in a hard-to-travel area at the edge of the Swabian Alb. At the misfortune place a fire broke out. Rescue forces hurried to the crash place and deleted the fire. The helicopter with the radio name "Christoph 51" is inserted use the air rescue according to standard, said Hentschel. It is stationed in the range of the emergency rescue and for the transport of patients between hospitals in use and to Stuttgart airport."
My condolences to the family and friends of the people involved.
BM
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Final Report public
The final report on the BK 117 accident in Weilheim a.d. Teck is public.
http://www.bfu-web.de/cln_009/nn_415...o%C3%9Fler.pdf
...shocking...
Experienced chief pilot obviously was stealing
drugs from the safe in the station since years
and was flying partly incapacitated.
Seen falling asleep on auto-pilot flights before,
was woken up by medical staff in the right seat.
This time the medical staff was busy with
the patient an nobody could wake him up on time...
CFIT
http://www.bfu-web.de/cln_009/nn_415...o%C3%9Fler.pdf
...shocking...
Experienced chief pilot obviously was stealing
drugs from the safe in the station since years
and was flying partly incapacitated.
Seen falling asleep on auto-pilot flights before,
was woken up by medical staff in the right seat.
This time the medical staff was busy with
the patient an nobody could wake him up on time...
CFIT
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The man was conspicuous since years but the other crewmembers reported nothing. They feared problems in reporting bad news about a disciplinarian. That´s the real CRM.
But he was also a human, one of us helicopterpilots, total overloaded with company work additionally to the daily rescue jobs and attempted to escape in drugs. 47 years, not an age to be burned out. It´s a fuc... business.
RIP
But he was also a human, one of us helicopterpilots, total overloaded with company work additionally to the daily rescue jobs and attempted to escape in drugs. 47 years, not an age to be burned out. It´s a fuc... business.
RIP
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He was the cheif pilot at his station,
also on the flight safety committee...
How can you complain on somebody like this,
and to whom... ???
Certainly an organization issue.
Also mentioned in the recommendations in the report.
RIP to the pilot and the three innocent he killed.
also on the flight safety committee...
How can you complain on somebody like this,
and to whom... ???
Certainly an organization issue.
Also mentioned in the recommendations in the report.
RIP to the pilot and the three innocent he killed.
