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While performing low altitude flybys during a commercial shoot, a Bell 206B-3 helicopter's main rotor blade struck the satellite dish atop a news truck. 0 1 "The pilot's failure to maintain clearance with ground obstacles, which resulted in a blade strike. A contributing factor was the low altitude selected by the pilot." [26] 2006-07-12
19 May - A Bell 212 helicopter crashed near Varzaqan, Iran, resulting in the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Malek Rahmati, and Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem who were passengers on board. [15] 31 August - A Mil Mi-8T helicopter crashed over Kamchatka, Russia. All 22 occupants onboard were killed. [16]
The crash late Sunday afternoon in the desert about 85 miles (137 kilometers) east of Los Angeles involved a huge Sikorsky S-64E and a smaller Bell 407. The larger Sikorsky landed safely.
1987 Bell Helicopter strike, 3-week strike by Bell Helicopter workers in the United States. [17] 1987 Canada Post strike, strike by Canada Post workers against rollbacks of working conditions and contracting out of services. [18] [19] 1987 de Havilland Canada strike, 10-week strike by De Havilland Canada workers. [20] 1987–1988 International ...
Flames could be seen where a military helicopter made an emergency landing at Camp Pendleton on Friday, causing police to warn drivers of potential traffic delays along Interstate 5. All four crew ...
The helicopter crashed and caught fire east of Raton, New Mexico. The pilot, pilot rated passenger, and three of the four passengers on board were killed, including Zimbabwean politician Roy Bennett and British world record holder Charles Burnett III. [1] Burnett had set the record for a steam-powered car in 2009.
The helicopter broke up in flight [2] while traveling about 229 mph (199 kn) at an altitude of about 2,000 feet (610 m); [3] the main rotor contacted and severed the tail boom due to severe vertical oscillations. The crew were performing one engine inoperative (OEI) recovery testing; the test induced a scissors-mode vibration in the main rotor ...
The Bell Aircraft Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer, a builder of several types of fighter aircraft for World War II but most famous for the Bell X-1, the first supersonic aircraft, and for the development and production of many important civilian and military helicopters.