ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 76273
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| Date: | Friday 3 August 2007 |
| Time: | 07:39 |
| Type: |  Bell 412EP |
| Owner/operator: | Bristow Helicopter (BHL) Nigeria |
| Registration: | 5N-BIQ |
| MSN: | 35385 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2005 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Eket, Akwa Ibom State -
 Nigeria
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Eket-Qua Ibom Terminal Airfield |
| Eket-Qua Ibom Terminal Airfield | |
| Investigating agency: | AIB Nigeria |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The Bristow line training captain boarded the aircraft 5N–BIQ Bell 412EP at 07:30hrs without the co-pilot. He started the aircraft engines rapidly, made a radio call at 07:32hrs for a "local flight", and lifted rapidly at 07:35hrs.
It was revealed that no such flight was scheduled or requested.
He made two fast fly passes over the airfield and on the third fly pass the aircraft descended steeply over the west of the airfield at a high speed impacting the ground at 07:39hrs.
The Pilot died of injuries shortly after being rescued from the wreckage.
The pilot had been distressed during the preceding 48 hours and had commented he had a problem and had "a bad leave" to some people. The pilot was stressed due to personal problems relating to the divorce settlements in his previous marriage and work related security concerns posed by possibility of being kidnapped by the militants. This precipitated his crisis.
Causal factor:
- The pilot flew aggressively and vigorously during which the aircraft impacted the ground.
Contributory factors:
- The organizational safety management system did not identify, intervene and mitigate stress and crisis that developed in the circumstances of the pilot, days before the accident.
- The pilot did not follow the company’s normal procedures, before proceeding to the flight line. He flew the aircraft without preflight and a co-pilot.
- The pilot did not respond to the EGPWS warnings as indicated in the FDR/CVR readout.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20070817X01199&key=1
https://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/286642-nigerian-fatality.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 13-Aug-2010 14:09 | Alpine Flight | Added |
| 07-Feb-2013 07:08 | TB | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Feb-2013 11:51 | harro | Updated [Time, Cn, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Apr-2018 14:00 | harro | Updated [Source] |
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