Yet another AW139 tail incident at Gulf helis
 

this morning, 02/05/11 - tail rotor gearbox comes off a AW139 on the apron pre-flight
:eek:

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Would someone 'in the know' be able to indicate how many tail-rotor related AW139 incidents have occurred to-date and whether these have any commonality?

I would be most grateful.

Sav

Really? Do you have any photos?
It's the second Gulf helicopter that has problems with the tail, and the second AW139 that loose the tail rotor gearbox (the other accidents was in Honk Kong).

Was it another tail boom failure while taxiing, or a tail-rotor failure with the resulting T/R gearbox ripping out? Agusta will announce that "a bird could have flown into it" any time now.

That is unecessary:=

The AB139 is a major leap forward in safety and has yet to be involved in a fatal accident (at least with a pilot at the controls;))

:ooh: this can be only second one, no more....

ok, probably (and I underline Probably!) in the one's come down in June 2008 in Abu Dhabi had no pilot at the controls (it seems that Sheikh Nasser Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the brother of the Emirates president, was the pilot when the accident occurs), but what about the SASEMAR accident in January 2010?

SAFETY?
 

SHELL MANAGEMENT,
Don't confuse the absence of an accident with safe operations.
It's in your own SMS documents.

The only thing that fell off the Spanish aircraft was the crewman I believe.
I hope he is recovering well from that tragic ordeal :ok:

another AW139 incident DOHA
 

Any Pictures or Further Information on GH tail failure this morning?
 

Does anyone have any pictures of the tailrotor gearbox failure of the heli?

Again they were very lucky the tailboom failed during taxi.

Aircraft hadn't moved.....:hmm:

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What about all incidents involving everything aft of the exhausts?

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/un...ken%20boom.JPG
A7-GHC: Gulf Helicopters - 25th August 2009 Doha, Qatar.

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/newsim...33543heli1.jpg
B-MHJ: Sky Shuttle Helicopters - 3rd July 2010, Hong Kong

Is is just these two incidents?

Sav

From what I've read and the pictures I've seen about this new incident, seems to be something totally different from the previous incidents, the tailboom is in place!.
The helicopter wasn't even taxiing!

Good luck and bad luck at the same moment for Gulf...

I hope to be able to share the pictures.

Best regards
Aser

AW139 Tail rotor & TGB detachment
 

to add on this one the tailboom is the upgrated type!!!!!!???????????:*

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...z/IMG_2958.jpg

one picture...

Aser

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Aser thanks for this image. Seems as if Gulf Helicopters now have a 'procedure' in place for concealing the aircraft registration and company name as soon as 'something' happens!

The tailfin seems burnt!

Still an 'aft of exhaust' incident.

Sav

Let's just hang in until some cool info is posted.:ok:

Aftermath
 

You want pics ?


http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1..._3911957_n.jpg

BS
Its not that they don't believe you :E