ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 43686
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| Date: | Saturday 8 September 2007 |
| Time: | 14:10 UTC |
| Type: |  Robinson R22 Beta |
| Owner/operator: | Jerome Soine |
| Registration: | D-HZAK |
| MSN: | 2862 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1998 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | A5 Highay near Bühl, S of Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg -
 Germany
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden (Baden-Airpark) (EDSB) |
| Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden (Baden-Airpark) (EDSB) | |
| Investigating agency: | BFU |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On September 8, 2007, at 14:10 UTC, a Robinson R-22 Beta, German registration D-HZAK, while in cruise flight executing a level right turn, sustained tail boom and stabilizer failure, departed controlled flight, and impacted onto a highway near Buhl Germany. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The two persons on board the helicopter were fatally injured. The local, personal flight originated at the Karlsruhe-Baden airport.
According to a rough translation into English of a contemporary press report (see link #5 for original German text)
"Devastating Accident: Helicopter crashed on Highway - 2 dead
Witnesses watched as part of helicopter dropped like a stone and then crashed onto the road - cars can the rubble barely dodge - Hour Long tailbacks
Date: Saturday, 08 September, 2007, around 17:00 hrs
Location: A5 Highway near Bühl, South of Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg
On Saturday afternoon is on the highway 5 in Buhl in Baden-Württemberg small helicopter crashed and caused two occupants killed. According to initial information, the two pilots were launched from Baden-Baden airport in Karlsruhe and then flew along the highway. Not far from a rest stop on the A5 in Buhl there came a short time later to the devastating accident. Witnesses reported to the police, as they had observed that a part was dropped from the helicopter and then the machine like a stone fell to the ground.
The helicopter crashed in the fast lane of the highway to the north and smashed into a thousand items. A rotor blade flew even several meters into the opposite lane, but met miraculously despite heavy traffic no other vehicle. Motorists who saw the helicopter crashing in front of him, were able to stop their vehicles, thus preventing an even greater disaster just in time. Fire and Rescue Service are in large-scale operation. For the two male occupants but came too late to help. They were killed by the impact on the spot.
An expert of the German Federal Aviation Office in Braunschweig, who happened to be near the accident site, started the investigation into the cause of the crash spot. Traffic was on the highway northbound for several hours to a standstill and also in the opposite lane, a kilometer long traffic jam formed by onlookers."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. NTSB Identification: DEN07WA159 at https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief2.aspx?_ev_id=20070919X01412&ntsbno=DEN07WA159&akey=1
2. https://www.bfu-web.de/DE/Home/homepage_node.htmlDE/Publikationen/Untersuchungsberichte/2007/Bericht_07_3X156_R22_A5.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
3. http://www.helionline.de/templates/sites/casualties.html
4. https://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/291294-robinson-crashes-german-highway.html
5. http://www.nonstopnews.de/index.php?page=meldung&newsnr=5674
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Oct-2008 00:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 29-Sep-2016 21:17 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Time, Cn, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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