ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 131561
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| Date: | Sunday 19 June 2011 |
| Time: | 14:30 |
| Type: |  Bell 407 |
| Owner/operator: | SAR Aviation Services |
| Registration: | VT-SWA |
| MSN: | 53806 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2007 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | In the Ladpur jungles near Raipur in Dehradun -
 India
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Jolly Grant Airport - VIDN |
| Sahastradhara helipad in Dehradun | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
A Bell 407 helicopter, hired along with two other choppers for the visit of Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Gadkari and his family, crashed at the Ladpur jungles in Dehradun on Sunday barely hours after the group had got down at the airport, leaving the pilot and an engineer seriously injured.
Dehradun SSP G.S. Martolia told PTI that the chopper of SAR Aviation was flying to Sahastradhara helipad in Dehradun from Jolly Grant Airport when it crashed. The other two choppers had reached the helipad safely.
Eyewitnesses said the chopper had broken into pieces as a result of the crash and its tail had got entangled in a tree.
Probable Cause of Accident:
Power loss due to failure of 2nd Stage Turbine disc of engine resulted in accident.
Sources:
http://www.dgca.nic.in/accident/reports/VT-SWA.pdf
http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/helicopter-crashes-on-outskirts-of-dehra-dun/article2117864.ece?service=mobile
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/private-chopper-crashes-near-dehradun-two-injured-458904
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 19-Jun-2011 06:22 | gerard57 | Added |
| 19-Jun-2011 06:23 | gerard57 | Updated [Narrative] |
| 19-Jun-2011 07:25 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Departure airport, Source] |
| 19-Jun-2011 07:38 | RobertMB | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Narrative] |
| 09-May-2013 19:10 | harro | Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
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