A Bell 407 operated by law enforcement made contact with a light pole in Olinda, Brazil on Sunday. It was summoned to the area to serve in an HEMS role to medevac a woman suffering a heart attack. The helicopter circled the area for 20 minutes before locating the victim. Once the patient was loaded [...]
Shin-Nihon Helicopter Corporation took delivery of serial number 54000, the 1,000th Bell 407 to come off the assembly line recently. The aircraft will join a fleet of 12 other Bell products that the company uses for a variety of mission types. The relationship between the two companies goes back 50 years to when they were [...]
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 [...]
UTAH – According to a recent FAA preliminary report, a University of Utah Airmed helicopter had a bird strike over the weekend. N407UH, a 1999 Bell 407 made contact with a bird that hit the windscreen while taking off. There were three on board so likely no patient and nobody was injured. Damage was listed [...]
A Bell 407 helicopter operated by AEL (Air Evac Lifeteam) had a hard landing incident in Decatur, Texas yesterday. The aircraft, operating in an HEMS role, was taking off from the Wise Regional Hospital when at an altitude of about 50 feet, it lost power. There have been reports that it was smoking at that [...]
Where were you born? An Arizona boy gets the pleasure of answering “I was in a helicopter flying over Arizona.” Just after 6am this morning, a DPS Air Rescue helicopter was called in to take a woman in labor to a hospital 130 miles from her location. She was in a clinic at the bottom [...]
