ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 232693
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| Date: | Saturday 1 February 2020 |
| Time: | 08:10 LT |
| Type: |  AgustaWestland AW139 |
| Owner/operator: | Fukushima Prefectural Police Aviation Unit |
| Registration: | JA139F |
| MSN: | 41373 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Mihota machi, Koriyama city, Fukushima prefecture -
 Japan
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Ambulance |
| Departure airport: | Aidu Chuo Hospital, Aizuwakamatsu |
| Fukushima Airport (FKS/RJSF) | |
| Investigating agency: | JTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
An AgustaWestland AW139 crashed shortly after the helicopter departed from a hospital in the Fukushima city of Aizuwakamatsu at c0800. All seven occupants were injured, four seriously. The helicopter was transporting a heart for transplant surgery.
On 3rd February 2020, some parts of the helicopter were found fallen just below the trajectory and at 1.5 km north of the accident site.
On 25th February 2020, JTSB released a press release which indicates the cause of the accident was fracture of the tail rotor drive shaft by contact with a main rotor blade. The shapes of the dent on the tip of the contacted main rotor blade and a fractured segment of the tail rotor drive shaft found apart from the accident site matched each other.
On 21st January 2021 the JTSB issued a further update
METAR data at Fukushima Airport at 08:00LT:
RJSF 312300Z 30009KT 9999 FEW020 03/M04 Q1011
Sources:
https://japantoday.com/category/national/update1-police-helicopter-crash-lands-in-northeastern-japan-all-7-aboard-injured
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/02/3656b85da64f-breaking-news-police-helicopter-crashes-in-fukushima-prefecture-local-police.html
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/01/national/police-helicopter-crashes-fukushima/#.XjU0P2eg-Hs
https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2020020100425/japanese-police-helicopter-crashes-in-fukushima.html
https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/02/01/20/police-helicopter-crash-lands-in-northeastern-japan-all-7-aboard-injured
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20200201-00000043-mai-soci
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20200203-00000161-kyodonews-soci
https://mainichi.jp/articles/20200206/ddl/k07/040/094000c?fbclid=IwAR1JDySJDloTk06eCklCS3OOrsYT1FT-VSlx2jDqJloX7qBcmzpxuKpzbWI
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20200225-00000114-kyodonews-soci
http://www.mlit.go.jp/jtsb/houdou200225.pdf
http://aerossurance.com/helicopters/fukushima-police-aw139-ja139f/
https://www.mlit.go.jp/jtsb/aircraft/rep-acci/keika20210121-JA139F.pdf
Media:
#JTSB issued an update (in Japanese) on an accident that occurred on 1 February 2020 to Leonardo AW139 JA139F of the Fukushima Prefectural Police Aviation Unit. We've translated it: https://t.co/HYIaZpJ0tt #flightsafety #helicopter pic.twitter.com/S48kWeBqwe
— Aerossurance (@Aerossurance) February 28, 2020
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Feb-2020 08:09 | gerard57 | Added |
| 01-Feb-2020 08:12 | gerard57 | Updated [Registration, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Feb-2020 08:13 | gerard57 | Updated [Destination airport] |
| 01-Feb-2020 08:22 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Operator, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Feb-2020 08:24 | RobertMB | Updated [Narrative] |
| 01-Feb-2020 09:28 | isamuel | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Feb-2020 10:14 | isamuel | Updated [Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 02-Feb-2020 08:42 | Aerossurance | Updated [Embed code, Narrative] |
| 02-Feb-2020 16:58 | Aerossurance | Updated [Embed code] |
| 03-Feb-2020 14:35 | isamuel | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 13-Feb-2020 08:16 | Aerossurance | Updated [Source] |
| 25-Feb-2020 11:01 | isamuel | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Feb-2020 17:31 | Aerossurance | Updated [Source, Embed code] |
| 16-Jan-2021 11:08 | rotorspot | Updated [Country, Destination airport, Embed code] |
| 16-Jan-2021 11:09 | harro | Updated [Country] |
| 27-Jan-2021 20:34 | Aerossurance | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 22-Feb-2021 18:07 | harro | Updated [[Source, Narrative]] |
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