ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 347307
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| Date: | Friday 18 March 2022 |
| Time: | 15:50 |
| Type: |  Guimbal Cabri G2 |
| Owner/operator: | HeliCentre Helicopter Services |
| Registration: | PH-HCJ |
| MSN: | 1288 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2021 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Serious incident |
| Location: | Lelystad Airport (LEY/EHLE) -
 Netherlands
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Lelystad Airport (LEY/EHLE) |
| Lelystad Airport (LEY/EHLE) | |
| Investigating agency: | Dutch Safety Board |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
During a solo training flight a student pilot lost control and the helicopter spun around its axis, lost altitude rapidly in an uncontrolled spiralling descent. He regained control at 200 feet AGL.
The student pilot made his third solo flight in a Cabri G2 helicopter from Lelystad Airport. The flight proceeded without any particular issues until his return to the airport. While approaching the circuit at an altitude of approximately 1,000 feet, the pilot became distracted by an incorrect instruction from air traffic control (ATC). The pilot realized that the instruction was not correct and requested a repetition of the instruction from the tower controller, who then repeated the incorrect instruction.
Due to the distraction, the pilot allowed the airspeed to drop to zero knots, while the helicopter climbed about 600 feet, without the pilot noticing. The student pilot’s helicopter entered a dangerous flight situation, specifically a rapid left rotation around its yaw axis and started an uncontrolled, steep left spiraling descent. Because the student pilot responded appropriately and applied what he had learned in flight school, and partly because of the extra altitude the helicopter had inadvertently gained, he managed to regain control of the helicopter and land at the airport.
An instructor in another helicopter who happened to be flying behind the student pilot, received the same incorrect instruction from ATC. The instructor immediately asked for confirmation of the ATC instruction. As a result, the air traffic controller recognized the mistake he had made and corrected it.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://bea.aero/en/investigation-reports/notified-events/detail/serious-incident-to-the-guimbal-cabri-g2-registered-ph-hcj-on-18-03-2022-at-lelystad/
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Oct-2023 09:41 | harro | Added |
| 27-Oct-2023 09:41 | harro | Updated |
| 08-Feb-2024 12:30 | ASN | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Narrative, Accident report] |
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