At around 4:30 a.m. this morning, a 1978 Bell 206 operated by Air Evac Lifeteam crashed around 80 miles north of Little Rock, Arkansas. The crew were flying to pick up a patient that was injured in a traffic accident when something went wrong. They were flying VFR at the time and were equipped with [...]
Canadian Forces are reporting that they are involved in a search for a Bell 206L that went missing on Monday. It is believed that only the pilot was on board the helicopter operated by Universal Helicopters Newfoundland Ltd. The pilot was on his way from Clyde river to Pond Inlet, which is on the northern [...]
A pilot of a 206 JetRanger was lucky to escape with minor injuries when he lost tail rotor effectiveness at the Big Bear Airport in California. He was hovering and waiting for a plane to pass when the problem occurred. He crashed on airport property with part of the rotor breaking the window of a [...]
Remember that crazy heist in Sweden involving a stolen 206B as the getaway vehicle? Well they released the security footage. VTOLblog covered the original story here: <Stolen Helicopter Used In Daring Robbery> This reminds me, I haven’t watched Heat in awhile.
Around 1 p.m. yesterday deputies received a call that a woman was trapped on a ledge above Angel Lake in Nevada. The Elko Fire Department was contacted and three firefighters were flown to the scene in a 206 owned by El Aero Services. It sounds like they dropped off one of the firefighters on the [...]
A veteran pilot, with 42 years of experience, escaped serious injury today when he crashed the 206 he was flying over the Susquehanna river around 7:50 a.m. He was spraying for black flies when the crash occurred as he hit a power line, losing control of the helicopter. As you can see in the pictures, [...]
