ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 24689
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| Date: | Saturday 4 September 1999 |
| Time: | 17:14 |
| Type: |  Agusta-Bell AB 206B JetRanger III |
| Owner/operator: | Loxxia Lease SA |
| Registration: | F-GFMX |
| MSN: | 8305 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1971 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Vichères, Eure-et-Loire -
 France
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Le Ferte Alais (LFAS) |
| Vernouillet Airport, Brou, Eure-et-Loire | |
| Investigating agency: | BEA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Saturday, September 4, 1999, the pilot of the helicopter Agusta-Bell 206 B registered F-GFMX off at 07:00 am at La Ferte-Alais (91) with four passengers and 52 US gallons of fuel to Brou (28). Flights from day consist of several stages with stops in helipads with different owners have authorized the use. To each stop passengers disembarked to make room for others. All Fuel supplements are made with the transported kerosene in barrels per vehicle chartered by the company owner of the device.
The activity of this day is described in the table "Activity of the day consumption and fuel management". It was at the end of the ninth rotation, being on a final approach helipad, the engine stops.
Judging that it would fail to achieve a safe auto-rotation landing, the helicopter is too low, the pilot made the decision to try to land at the location originally planned. He pushes the cyclic pitch control to forward. The unit immediately loses altitude and struck the ground violently at Vichères, Eure-et-Loire (at approximate co-ordinates: 48°16′10″N, 0°54′49″E)
Slightly injured, the driver managed to free himself from the wreckage. The three injured passengers remain in the unit. They will be freed by rescue immediately alerted by a witness
Registration F-GFMX cancelled by the relevant authorities on 29 December 2011
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. http://www.griffin-helicopters.co.uk/accidentdetails.aspx?accidentkey=23430
2. http://www.bea.aero/docspa/1999/f-mx990904/pdf/f-mx990904.pdf
3. http://web.archive.org/web/20120928112413/http://www.immat.aviation-civile.gouv.fr:80/immat/servlet/aeronef_liste.html;jsessionid=39731D90E40133F1003D2D65DE61C2B8
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 12-Apr-2015 14:33 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 12-Apr-2015 14:34 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Narrative] |
| 12-Apr-2015 14:35 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Total occupants, Location] |
| 12-Apr-2015 14:35 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location] |
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