At least three cars were damaged yesterday by a $100,000 infrared camera that fell off a Ohio police helicopter. The incident occurred around noon on Wednesday at 1600 Watermark Drive in Columbus. A witness said they saw the camera “flopping” around before it came off, heavily damaging one car and doing minor damage to the [...]
Around 10:30 p.m. Thursday night the 2004 EC120B operated by the Fresno Police had to make a precautionary landing. It isn’t clear what the problem was beyond a light going off inside. Chip light maybe? Anyways, they landed in a grassy field at Williams Elementary without further complications. Mechanics came out to inspect the helicopter [...]
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department SH-3H made an emergency landing shortly after 12:40 p.m. today. The Sikorsky Sea King had two pilots and two mechanics on board when they had mechanical problems with one of the engines. They notified the Fire Department of their situation and dumped fuel on an RV park, hitting one [...]
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 [...]
While performing the pre-flight inspection on one of the two Oklahoma PD helicopters Saturday, a bullet hole was found. It is believed that while it was patrolling on Friday night it was hit with a round of unknown caliber near the rear rotor assembly. The pilots at the time didn’t notice it and there was [...]
Two officers were injured on Sunday in what is being described as a training accident in one of their Jet Rangers. The sequence of events released so far are that the aircraft was at approximately 500 feet when something went wrong. It came down hard enough that the main rotor severed the tail boom of [...]
