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 United States Marines UH-1 made an emergency landing earlier today in North Carolina. Details are limited but so far there have been no injuries reported. One of the engines caught fire and forced the pilots to land in a field in Onslow County. The flight originated at the New River Air Station. Update: There [...]
An OH-58A Kiowa operated by the Australian Army made a precautionary landing in a field yesterday. Preliminary reports say there was a possible problem with the engine but it isn’t clear if it was an actual failure or a warning light. There were two crew members and a passenger on board, nobody was injured. Another [...]
An $80 million dollar lawsuit has been filed against Bell helicopters, Rolls-Royce NA, Goodrich Pumps and Engine Control Systems, Unison and Honeywell by family members of US Army pilots killed last year in Iraq. Marcus Alford and Billie J Grinder died when their OH-58D Kiowa crashed on February 21st, 2010, while attempting to land about [...]
According to an article by the Associated Press, some new information has been released regarding a crash I covered here: Apache Crashes in Colorado. The result of an investigation by the Army has faulted the two pilots as well as the training program. They don’t specify exactly what the pilots did wrong but they do [...]
A US Army Blackhawk helicopter made a surprise visit to a school in Hawaii yesterday with 12 soldiers on board. They were headed to the Pohakuloa training area on the big island when a warning light came on. Per Army regulations, the crew elected to make a precautionary landing and chose a field at the [...]
