ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 230245
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| Date: | Friday 10 February 1995 |
| Time: | 11:55 |
| Type: |  MBB Bo 105CB-2 |
| Owner/operator: | Bundesministerium des Innern (BMI) Luftrettung |
| Registration: | D-HDPB |
| MSN: | S-553 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Balderschwang -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Ambulance |
| Departure airport: | Kempten-Durach |
| Balderschwang | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
"Christoph 17" flew towards the east, the sun and snow blinded them, no one saw the cable of the material that spanned the valley. Pilot Rainer Bott tried to pull the machine up, but the landing gear got caught in the rope. According to later reconstruction attempts, the helicopter was abruptly braked by the rope in its forward flight at 70 knots (approx. 130 km/h, editor's note) and literally bent. The tail rotor was torn off and later found almost 100 meters away, then the cable broke, the machine fell around 100 meters deep into a ravine and drilled itself two meters deep, pulpit first, into the boggy ground with a very high layer of snow. Pilot Rainer Bott (38) was killed and two other occupants seriously injured.
Sources:
Christoph 17
https://www.all-in.de/allgaeu/absturz-von-christoph-17-ueberlebende-erinnern-an-katastrophe_arid-240811
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Oct-2019 18:28 | TB | Added |
| 22-Mar-2024 06:30 | jsm | Updated [Photo] |
| 22-Mar-2024 16:05 | jsm | Updated [Location, Country, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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