EULEX Super Puma crash, Kosovo
Pristina, Kosovo, PRN (BKPR)
Late afternoon, crash of EULEX mission helicopter, during training flight. So far info about just one person injured. Can be EI-SAO Starlite Super Puma AS-332C1 cn 2896 (non confirmed) http://www.epa.eu/thumb.php/51930252...K-57vg-wM40CHp http://www.epa.eu/thumb.php/51930252...K-57vg-wM40CHp |
Always a shame to lose a helicopter in training accident. Heavy burden on the training pilot.
And especially when it is the newest one you've got. HeliHub Airbus Helicopters? new AS332C1e is ready for duty |
AS332?
The helicopter in the picture (9Aplus post) does not look like a Super Puma. It's an old Puma, if you ask me..
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It's a 330 Puma. You can tell by the baby mainwheels.
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It's a 332C1e, a shortened utility version of the 332L
https://www.airbushelicopters.com/we...32-C1e_38.html P1 |
It's a 332C1e, a shortened utility version of the 332L Nope! This is a Sud Aviation SA330J, which was the first in the Puma family. Ie it started it's life that short. The AS332C1 was a SA330 fuselage being modified/upgraded into the AS332C1 and later stretched to the AS332L models and so on. The C1e is correctly the latest of the short version Superpuma, which is the fact with reg EI-SAO, but this is not the aircraft in question. This is likely to be EI-SAI, s/n 1545 Fareast, yep, and the ''snoopy-nose'' weather radar. |
Doh! I knew Starlight had ordered a C, my fault for assuming!
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Wheels, sponsons, rotor head all 330, not 332 of any kind.
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So for sure, it is not this one...
EI-SAO STARLITE Aviation Group Eurocopter AS-332C1 Super Puma - Planespotters.net Just Aviation EI registration is on tail section of crashed helicopter... |
Yes, you can be sure that the crashed helicopter is not Super Puma EI-SAO.
EI merely means that the aircraft is registered in Ireland, that's all. Look at the shape of the cabin windows, the sponsons, radar nose etc.. |
We had an Irish helicopter at Silverstone one year. I believe it's registration was EI-EIO. ;););)
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