ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 200096
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| Date: | 01-OCT-2017 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Type: |  Robinson R66 Turbine |
| Owner/operator: | Square Air Limited |
| Registration: | S2-AGT |
| MSN: | 0412 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Chatmohar, Pabna -
 Bangladesh
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Dhaka-Shahjalal International Airport (DAC/VGHS) |
| Pabna | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIG-BD |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The helicopter took off from VGHS at 10:05 UTC with a pilot plus four passengers on board for Pabna. The helicopter couldn’t proceed to the destination due to bad weather and diverted from 15-20 nautical miles short of the destination to land at a nearby area for the weather to clear up. While landing hurriedly on a paved surface at Chatmohar, Pabna, the helicopter got into Dynamic Rollover and toppled. The helicopter was damaged beyond economic repair. Pilot and all passengers survived with no significant injury.
CAUSE:
The main cause of the accident was Dynamic Rollover during a hurried landing.
CONTRIBUTING FACTORS:
1 Bad weather
2 The uneven surface at the landing point.
3 Wrong landing procedure.
4 Corporate syndrome.
Sources:
www.dhakatribune.com
http://www.rotorspot.nl/current/s2-c.php
Accident investigation:
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Media:
#Bangladesh: A helicopter has crash-landed in Pabna's Chatmohar with four people on board, and all of them are safe, police say. pic.twitter.com/LT9ET6Urhz
— Mosrur Zunaid (@MosrurZunaid) October 1, 2017
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Oct-2017 19:30 | gerard57 | Added |
| 01-Oct-2017 19:32 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Source, Embed code] |
| 02-Oct-2017 20:57 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Embed code] |
| 19-Jan-2020 19:30 | harro | Updated [Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Embed code, Narrative, Accident report, ] |
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