Omni EC225 incident - Macae 6th June 2012
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Omni EC225 incident - Macae 6th June 2012
A model helicopter EC 225 tipped over late on Wednesday at the airport in Macae during takeoff. According to information from the Union of Oil North Fluminense (Sindipetro / NF), the aircraft taxied to the airport, was with two crew, the copilot and the pilot had minor injuries, he was unharmed. No information about the causes of the accident. In August last year, four people died in a helicopter crash in the Campos Basin. According to a spokesperson for the Sindipetro / NF, the aircraft belonged to the company Omni and was taking off for testing to go through approval to operate in Petrobras. Minutes after the event, the directors Sindipetro / NF were at the scene. The advisory also said that initial reports are that the aircraft was new. On 19 August last year an Augusta AW139 helicopter model, the company's Senior Taxi Aereo, crashed in the Campos basin. The aircraft requested permission for emergency landing at the airport in Macae, but disappeared. After almost ten days of searching, the wreckage of the helicopter were taken from the sea, in Macae. The two crew and two passengers die, planning assistant coach Ricardo Leal de Oliveira, the technical inspection, Joćo Carlos Pereira da Silva, the pilot and copilot Rommel Garcia Oliveira Pinto Haytzann Lauro.
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Rolled over during taxy.
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Not that difficult to roll a super puma / 225. Full right pedal with cyclic slightly left of neutral with high vertical CofG (no pax, low fuel) will do it.
Just like many other possibilities for crashing a helicopter, if you put the controls in the wrong place you will crash! That is why we have training!
Just like many other possibilities for crashing a helicopter, if you put the controls in the wrong place you will crash! That is why we have training!
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Not that difficult to roll a super puma / 225. Full right pedal with cyclic slightly left of neutral with high vertical CofG (no pax, low fuel) will do it.
Last edited by Soave_Pilot; 9th June 2012 at 14:41.
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Looking at the photo again I notice it seems to have rolled over to the right. That implies excessive left pedal (non-power pedal) and lots of right cyclic. The "rollover zone" is much smaller to the right, so they must have been trying quite hard!
