An Oklahoma City rancher spotted a calf trapped on a frozen pond yesterday and alerted his local news station. He knew that an animal trapped on the ice had been saved by helicopter before and that’s exactly what happened this time. The pilot, Mason Dunn, showed up on scene in the 1999 Bell 407 and [...]
Around 12:30 p.m. today an AirMed (407?) responded to a roll-over accident where the driver had fallen asleep. While landing at the scene the helicopter’s tail rotor made contact with a road sign. The pilot managed to remain in control and put it down without causing any injuries. Witnesses stated that after it made contact [...]
An air evac crew operating in Arizona got a surprise visit from a vulture smashing through the windshield on Tuesday. The bird took out most of the windshield and slammed into the pilot’s chest. They made an emergency landing at the Nogales airport and nobody suffered any serious injuries, except the vulture, which didn’t make [...]
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 [...]
