Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT), Helicopter Safety
The NTSB cites a pilot’s failure to maintain altitude in a Huey’s CFIT crash in New Mexico.
The 6,400-hour commercial pilot told rescuers it was “all my fault” that the Bell UH-1H Iroquois struck the ground on a dark-night flight shortly after takeoff from Raton, New Mexico, U.S., killing four of his five passengers and seriously injuring the fifth. The pilot died soon afterward, en route to a hospital.
The warning follows the July 4 crash of an R44 in Broome, Western Australia.
The U.S. NTSB is recommending that all turbine helicopters should be equipped with crash-resistant flight…
In the culmination of an extensive collaborative effort involving dozens of companies in the oil…
