Poor weather conditions in Salt Lake City look to be the cause of an AirMed Bell 407 landing in a Costco parking lot. The helicopter involved is N407UH which is the same aircraft from a bird strike story I covered here. No patients were on board at the time. From the picture it looks pretty [...]
Three crew members walked away from a crash during a training exercise in Northern California just before 11 a.m. today. The incident took place at the Arcata-Eureka airport causing private plane traffic to be shut down. Commercial traffic is allowed to land though and United Express customers were told to expect delays of two hours [...]
The Bristow Academy based at the Space Coast Regional Airport is about to get bigger. A $2M grant has been approved by the U.S. Economic Development Administration to allow the school to grow in the hopes of generating up to 97 new jobs. The formal announcement of approval is expected today. Last month it was [...]
According to a new faa preliminary report, N220LN, which is a Bell 222U operated by Mercy Air, made contact with trees on Friday. The report states that the rotorblades hit some trees during the landing phase and did minor damage to the aircraft. No injuries were reported and since there were only three on board, [...]
One of three UH-1 iroquois helicopters crashed while en route to an Anzac Day memorial service today. Anzac Day is the national day of remembrance commemorating those who lost their lives in military service for both Australia and New Zealand. The crash occurred around 6:45 a.m. in conditions a witness reported as being “extremely misty.” [...]
