ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 59469
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| Date: | Thursday 9 April 2009 |
| Time: | 11:10 |
| Type: |  Robinson R22 Beta |
| Owner/operator: | Mountain Flyers 80 Ltd/MR Flugbetriebs AG |
| Registration: | HB-ZGR |
| MSN: | 3861 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2005 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Bern-Belp Airport, Bern -
 Switzerland
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Bern-Belp Airport, Bern (LSZB) |
| Bern-Belp Airport, Bern (LSZB) | |
| Investigating agency: | BFU Switz. |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The helicopter, when re-registered in Switzerland as HB-ZGR on 30-08-2006 (to replace R22 HB-XZH) was substantially damaged during it's auto-rotational landing approach on the grass runway while on a training flight 09-04-2009 at the helicopters base airport of Bern/Belp. The flight instructor had suffered slight head injury and his student was thankfully not injured. The helicopter remained upright with damage to its landing skids, tail boom and main rotor blades.
The Bern airport fire brigade secured the accident site. According to the media, there was no danger of leaking fuel liquids. The information on the cause of the hard landing is not known at this time 10-04-2009. The incident is confirmed by the air accident authorities (AAA) to be investigated.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. http://www.sust.admin.ch/pdfs/AV-berichte/2137_e.pdf
2. http://www.htdi-int.com/detail-78029.html?l=en&m=553ebb214c89cad575b68666df137149
4. http://www.swissheli.com/history/hb-zgr.htm
Images:
Noted at it's base at Bern/ Belp on 12.10.2007 by Frank Vorwerk.
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 09-Apr-2009 11:57 | harro | Added |
| 10-Apr-2009 01:24 | Frank Vorwerk/ HTDI | Updated |
| 04-Sep-2010 09:53 | Alpine Flight | Updated [Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 01-Oct-2016 18:55 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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