Fukushima Prefecture AW139 crash land, no immediatefatalities
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Fukushima Prefecture AW139 crash land, no immediatefatalities
Koriyama, Fukushima Pref., Feb. 1 (Jiji Press)--A police helicopter crashed in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday morning, leaving two people on board seriously injured, police and fire officials said.
Five police officers, a doctor and a nurse were aboard the prefectural police helicopter Azuma at the time of the crash. The doctor in his 30s was among the two injured. All seven people remain conscious, the officials said.
The helicopter crashed into a rice field while transporting a heart for transplant, the officials said.
The crash came shortly after the helicopter departed from a hospital in the Fukushima city of Aizuwakamatsu at around 8 a.m. (11 p.m. Friday GMT), bound for Fukushima Airport, the officials said.
There have been no reports of injury to residents near the crash site.
Nippon News Heli Crash
Five police officers, a doctor and a nurse were aboard the prefectural police helicopter Azuma at the time of the crash. The doctor in his 30s was among the two injured. All seven people remain conscious, the officials said.
The helicopter crashed into a rice field while transporting a heart for transplant, the officials said.
The crash came shortly after the helicopter departed from a hospital in the Fukushima city of Aizuwakamatsu at around 8 a.m. (11 p.m. Friday GMT), bound for Fukushima Airport, the officials said.
There have been no reports of injury to residents near the crash site.
Nippon News Heli Crash
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Shimatta! Maybe a wire-strike from too busy looking inside trying to match some certification profile?
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Certification profiles only apply for certified (surveyed) sites. (Which wont have wires strung across them in the climb-out path). Wires can take anybody by surprise, and to suggest that the pilots were not looking out is unfair ( to say the least)
Sadly the heart went over its use-by date.
Shimatta! Maybe a wire-strike from too busy looking inside trying to match some certification profile?
Youtube
Youtube
Shimatta! Maybe a wire-strike from too busy looking inside trying to match some certification profile?
Youtube
Youtube
Well, I think we can discount wires - like I said it would have been en-route.
I'm thinking Sky Shuttle here. Hopefully not another Italian Friday blade. I'm seeing 3 stripe blades on this image, unsure if crash airframe.
https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/6/50280_1464422531.jpg
https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/6/50280_1464422531.jpg
Last edited by Sir Korsky; 2nd Feb 2020 at 13:56.
;Might I be the first to say this.....damn good flying!
Plainly some sort of Tail Rotor issue.
For everyone to walk-on/crawl away is worthy of praise
Plainly some sort of Tail Rotor issue.
For everyone to walk-on/crawl away is worthy of praise
was this right after coming out of a seemingly CatA Helipad departure profile?
better shot of T/R here. 3 stripes and possibly no drive on impact. Agree with SAS, brilliant outcome with no flames or deaths.
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2...al-police.html
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2...al-police.html
I make it at about 10 minutes after takeoff, zero airspeed, slow yaw right. Some heroics to get it on the ground with as little damage as they did from that point. How to get into that situation from cruise? Did they lose yaw thrust (and why), lowered the collective but never got the throttles off and didn’t keep or regain their 80 knots? Gear was down, how did they get time for that as it surely would have been up for cruise.
Have I got the planned routing about right? The yellow circle being the final resting place. Destination was the airport.
Have I got the planned routing about right? The yellow circle being the final resting place. Destination was the airport.
Last edited by malabo; 2nd Feb 2020 at 16:21.
Heroics? Dang....you mean there was a School within two hundred miles of the crash site....that they gallantly sacrificed themselves to avoid?