ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 34331
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| Date: | Saturday 27 September 2008 |
| Time: | afternoon |
| Type: |  Robinson R22 |
| Owner/operator: | Copenhagen Helicopters A/S |
| Registration: | OY-HFC |
| MSN: | 1251 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1990 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Kirke Såby, Central Zealand, midway between Roskilde and Holbæk -
 Denmark
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Survey |
| Departure airport: | Roskilde Airport (EKRK) |
| Roskilde Airport (EKRK) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
The helicopter crashed at a sports field. The pilot, a 36 year old man, died. The passenger, a 41 year old photographer survived, but his condition is still uncertain. Photos show helicopter upright, but significant vertical forces have collapsed the skids and the fuselage contacted the ground. Fire on impact. According to a rough translation from Danish into English of a contemporary press report (see link #4):
"Games of football shortly before the helicopter crash
It was a miracle that no one on the ground was hurt in helicopter crash. Just minutes before the crash was the sports ground filled with people.
The tragic accident in Kirke Saby yesterday afternoon in which a helicopter pilot died and DR-host Søren Benthin was badly injured, could have ended much worse. Just minutes before the accident was namely played football on the playing field, the helicopter crashed. it tells the neighbors to the sports field that saw the violent crash at close range.
The many residents of the city that evening through flocked to the scene, was also all deeply shocked and very touched by the tragedy. Rikke Jensen, who lives right next to the sports field tells bt.dk: -"We had just been to a football match. Kirke Saby had won a local showdown, so we were so happy, and so it happens here. It's awful.
She and her boyfriend Kenneth Frederiksen as both the low flying helicopter that circled around their house before it suddenly disappeared behind the trees toward the ground nose first. "The helicopter circled over our house. I could see the pilot. Then they made it like a couple of pirouettes, and went down behind the trees tip first", she says. "We thought at first that it was just an exercise. But when we saw that it disappeared behind the trees on the way, we were aware that it was not."
Sources:
1. http://www.bt.dk/article/20080928/nyheder/80928010/
2. Pictures of the crashed helicopter can be found at https://www.beredskabsinfo.dk/content/view/1507/2/
3. http://helihub.com/2008/09/27/27-sep-08-oy-hfc-robinson-r22-kirke-saby-denmark-1f/
4. https://www.bt.dk/nyheder/spillede-fodbold-kort-foer-helikopterstyrt
5. https://www.beredskabsinfo.dk/content/view/1507/2
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Sep-2008 23:24 | RobertMB | Added |
| 29-Sep-2008 03:54 | Petero | Updated |
| 30-Sep-2008 23:55 | HEB | Updated |
| 08-Sep-2014 13:28 | Aerossurance | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 31-Oct-2016 14:55 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 31-Oct-2016 15:02 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 25-Aug-2018 22:15 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Operator, Narrative] |
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