Upper Limit Aviation, based in Utah, is under fire after a student was injured in a hard landing yesterday. The R22 was being flown by both an instructor and student when the engine failed. They came down hard, spreading the skids and slicing the tail boom. The student suffered a minor head injury and, luckily, [...]
A 60-year-old pilot and his 46-year-old passenger are lucky to have walked away from a crash that did over $1.4M in damages. The only articles I’ve read are in German so I’m working with basic translation unfortunately. From what I understand they were on a “familiarization flight” and upon returning to the hanger they didn’t [...]
A Culpeper County man is lucky to have walked away uninjured after his Hiller UH-12E crashed in a field in Virginia last Friday. The pilot, Gene Kritter, said that a problem developed while he was flying from his home to a nearby farm to pick up fertilizer. It started when the aircraft’s engine began to [...]
A Fort Bragg based OH-58D Kiowa helicopter had a hard landing yesterday near Lindon in North Carolina. The incident took place around 2 p.m. and a mechanical failure is being blamed. Although engine failure hasn’t been specifically mentioned, this sure looks like a forced auto-rotation to me. One witness was quoted as saying the engine [...]
A student and instructor are both lucky to have walked away from a dynamic rollover that occurred last week. The student was practicing pick ups and sit downs when they rolled over. The instructor did what he could to minimize the problem but ultimately, once you get past that tipping point, there is no stopping [...]
A Sikorsky S58 crashed while lifting an air conditioning unit onto a roof on Sunday. The incident occurred at around 9:40 a.m. at the Ratheon building on El Segundo Boulevard. A witness stated that he thought the line got caught on something. The helicopter swayed a few times and then went down. There was a [...]
