ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 32282
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| Date: | Saturday 27 April 1996 |
| Time: | 16:05 LT |
| Type: |  Aérospatiale AS 355F-2 Ecureuil |
| Owner/operator: | Nagano Broadcasting System |
| Registration: | JA9633 |
| MSN: | 5315 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1986 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Honshu -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Survey |
| Departure airport: | Matsumoto Airport (MMJ/RJAF) |
| Investigating agency: | JTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Filming in the vicinity of a forest fire, at that moment low-flying to take pictures of a firefighting helicopter filling its bucket from a river. AS 350 JA9633 overran and collided with one of 12 media and firefighting helicopters in the area and both aircraft lost control and crashed. According to a rough translation of the official accident report, from the original Japanese text into English:
"...the air contact in the Chikuma River left bank of the river bed over Nagano Shinonoiyokota, with both aircraft crashed into the river bed. The aircraft JA9633 was wrecked, fire broke out, pilot and photographer killed"
JA9633 was the Nagano Broadcasting System AS355F1 which collided with another helicopter (JA9792) when it flew into JA9792 from behind, when they were both carrying TV crews filming the same event.
Six persons were killed in the incident: all 4 on board JA9792 and both persons on board JA9633
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1997/1997
2. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://coptercrazy.brinkster.net/search/se350show.asp?start=1151&count=50]
3. http://www.rotorspot.nl/historic/ja.php
4. http://jtsb.mlit.go.jp/jtsb/aircraft/detail.php?id=909
5. http://web.archive.org/web/20080503065506/http://www.eonet.ne.jp:80/~accident/960427.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 04-Jul-2014 17:07 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 04-Jul-2014 17:10 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Date] |
| 04-Jul-2014 17:29 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Source, Narrative] |
| 31-Jan-2022 09:03 | BEAVERSPOTTER | Updated [Aircraft type, Country] |
| 31-Jan-2022 09:03 | harro | Updated [Country] |
| 31-Jan-2022 09:04 | harro | Updated [Accident report] |
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