ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 24671
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| Date: | Sunday 9 February 2003 |
| Time: | 11:00 LT |
| Type: |  Eurocopter AS 350B3 Ecureuil |
| Owner/operator: | Mont-Blanc Hélicoptères |
| Registration: | F-GMBH |
| MSN: | 3125 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1998 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Samoëns, Haute-Savoie department, Rhône-Alpes region -
 France
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Annemasse Airport (LFLI) |
| Annemasse Airport (LFLI) | |
| Investigating agency: | BEA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot, belonging to the Mexican police, and the instructor make the last flight of three planned for this course keeping skills. They are accompanied by the course organizer who served as interpreter because of language difficulties understanding between the two pilots.
After a workout autorotation, the instructor offers to perform exercises with the helicopter out of fuel regulation. He passes control to regulate the "automatic" position to the "Manual" (AUTO-MAN switch to MAN), the red GOV light together with the sound signal and of the ring of the friction control is generally not loose. The pilot made a few exercises translation on the airfield.
After landing, the instructor decides perform a complete circuit track down regulation. The pilot off the track 30 and manages power using the throttle grip. It explains that a height of about 150 feet, he finds that the regime engine is slightly higher and lower performance. The plane becomes too low for this phase of flight and the instructor takes on the handle rotating it fails to operate.
He decided to make a U- turn to the left to an emergency landing in the grounds of the airport to avoid the buildings adjoining industrial area on the platform. He began a flare too low in which the tail boom struck the ground and the helicopter landed hard. Contacts are cut and occupants evacuate the helicopter. During the intervention of the instructor, there was no verbal exchange between people on board the helicopter. Examination of the power control system revealed no abnormality
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-bh090218/pdf/f-bh090218.pdf
2. http://www.airbushelicopters.com/site/docs_wsw/RUB_963/Potential.pdf
3. http://jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6258515
4. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1131535/
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 18 February 2009 | F-GMBH | Mont Blanc Hélicoptères | 0 | Annemasse Airport | |
sub |
Media:
AS 350B3 F-GMBH at Grenoble-Saint Geoirs (LFLS) December 29 2007
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 13-Jul-2014 00:25 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Damage, Narrative] |
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