ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 238442
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| Date: | Monday 20 July 2020 |
| Time: | 15:45 |
| Type: |  Robinson R44 II |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | C-FPBL |
| MSN: | 13276 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2012 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Thorburn Lake, W of Clarenville, NL -
 Canada
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Springdale Airport, NL (CCD2) |
| Thorburn Lake, NL (CCW5) | |
| Investigating agency: | TSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A privately operated Robinson R44 helicopter, was on a multi leg cross-country pleasure flight. The helicopter departed Springdale Airport Newfoundland (CCD2) with the intent to refuel at an aircraft maintenance facility located on the north-east side of Thorburn Lake, Newfoundland (CCW5). Upon arrival at Thorburn Lake the helicopter completed a precautionary circuit over the planned landing site; a gravel parking lot surrounded by trees. The helicopter returned to the parking lot and carried out an approach to about tree top level. It then entered a hover and began to climb vertically. When the helicopter reached approximately 75 feet above tree top level it began small yaw and pitch movements which increase in amplitude over a short period of time. Control was lost and the main rotor blades made contact with and severed approximately four feet of the tail boom that included the tail rotor assembly. The helicopter and the tail rotor assembly fell vertically into a stand of trees and came to rest upright on the forest floor. The pilot and front seat passenger sustained multiple serious injuries and passenger in the RH rear seat was fatally injured. Witnesses close by provided first aid to the occupants and extinguished a small non-fuel fed fire in the area of the LH engine manifold. The helicopter was destroyed.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/helicopter-crash-thorburn-lake-1.5656538
Images:
Photo: TSB
Media:
TSB investigator examines helicopter wreckage following a crash near Thorburn Lake, NL #TSBAir pic.twitter.com/Yc3r0aaYaV
— TSB of Canada (@TSBCanada) July 23, 2020
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 21-Jul-2020 02:18 | Geno | Added |
| 21-Jul-2020 15:56 | gerard57 | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 21-Jul-2020 16:08 | Aerossurance | Updated [Location, Narrative] |
| 23-Jul-2020 19:21 | Aerossurance | Updated [Embed code] |
| 01-Aug-2020 06:34 | harro | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Damage, Narrative] |
| 11-Mar-2021 19:31 | harro | Updated [Source, Narrative, Category, Accident report, Photo] |
| 11-Mar-2021 19:33 | harro | Updated [Source, Category, Photo] |
| 11-Mar-2021 19:34 | harro | Updated [Source] |
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