Aegir, if you are able to find it, very well, otherwise yours are only spam messages...:hmm:

And, if it exists a tape on HK accident, we have carefully to analyze it, without alledging uncontrolled point of views.

Outwest, Sultan,

besides confirming that Weststar accident has been caused by an hard landing as consequence of a take off with a helo weight > MTOW,

the failure mode of AW139 blades are well known so far -

what we are unable to check right now if this failure mode is a consequence of a previous event - high vibrations due to an impact? Hydraulic failure? etc.

CVDR will support the root cause investigation.

Cairns EMQ helicopter grounded - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Does anybody know if there is already some company equipped with aw139 resuming flying after tail rotor blades change?

I believe CHC in Australia have a couple of machines flying EMS. They were grounded for a short while but now flying again.

I hear there are quite a few CHC 139's flying again, but still many waiting for new blades. Even some military style blades (low viz paint) have been delivered to civilian customers to get them flying as quickly as possible!

In Brasil just the helicopters that fly to Petrobrás contracts are grounded. OMNI has contracts with REPSOL and is flying, Aeróleo has contracts with OGX and is flying too. Last week i was in Vergiatte - Italy doing the Flight simulator and i saw a lot of AW's flying normally.

aw139 accident Brasil
 

Helo Parnaiocas,

You was recently in Italy ?? Regarding the AW139 bonded tail and T/R, what are the Agusta engineers comments ?

Are them concerned about that parts bonded method? What they think about Agusta composite production process?

My question is due they have certificated that T/R blades for 6 thousand hours but will have to inspect that at each 300 hours ?? Doesn't make sense !:ugh:

Regarding the TR blade issue, I got the information that blades had been made using an interlaced fixture though, AW has been improving/modifying this fixture to fix the issue.

Anybody else got the same information?

ARAMCO is getting some of its 139s back in the air as TR blades are trickling in. I think four are back in the air so far.

Did they recover the helicopter?

In the hope of only gathering information, and not increasing speculation.

Is there one that can state with certainty, the status of the PCM's hydraulic levels, after the Sky Shuttle incident. I find no reference to this.

:cool: Let's be serious... even here...
Who is going to confirm that?! :E

ERA
 

From a buddy that used to work at ERA, he said their 139's are back in the air...

:ok:

Whose aircraft was it?
 

ADA had one 139 leased to Brazil at the time. That same aircraft had a hydraulics lock up in Abu Dhabi that was never reported to DGCA. The collective would not go up or down for :10. Coincidence?

Final Accident Report Released
 

http://sistema.cenipa.aer.mil.br/cen...15_PR-SEK_.pdf

Still looking for an English version. If I find it I'll update this post.

CENIPA page has a bad link. I can't post the url (not enough posts) but if you replace the last part of the link above with the text below, you'll get it:

relatorios/rf/en/RF_A-546CENIPA2015_PR-SEK_-_English_Final.pdf

Here's the English Link http://sistema.cenipa.aer.mil.br/cen...lish_Final.pdf

I was not aware until reading this that the No 2 TRSOV failed leading to total loss of hydraulics. Such a tragedy after seeing great skill by the pilot - he recovered from a 120 degree left bank, to a stablised, wings level, zero yaw autorotation, up until the point he lost control when the TRSOV opened and dumped the No 2 hydraulic fluid!