Date:	Saturday 27 April 1996
Time:	16:05 LT
Type:	Aérospatiale AS 350B
Owner/operator:	TV Shinshu
Registration:	JA9792
MSN:	2162
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Other fatalities:	2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Honshu -   Japan
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Survey
Departure airport:	Matsumoto Airport (MMJ/RJAF)
Destination airport:
Investigating agency:	JTSB
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
Two helicopters collided in midair while filming a firefighting helicopter in action. The two helicopters were AS 355F1 JA9633 and JA9792, a AS 350B both crashed, killing all one board (4 on JA9792, and 2 on JA9633).

Filming in the vicinity of a forest fire, at that moment low-flying to take pictures of a firefighting helicopter filling its bucket from a river. It overran and collided with one of 12 media and fire fighting helicopters in the area and both aircraft lost control and crashed

1. https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1997/1997
2. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://coptercrazy.brinkster.net/search/se350show.asp?start=1051&count=50]
3. https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1996/1996
4. http://jtsb.mlit.go.jp/jtsb/aircraft/detail.php?id=909

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
20-Mar-2011 13:47	harro	Added
04-Jul-2014 16:56	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
04-Jul-2014 17:13	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Registration, Cn, Narrative, ]
04-Jul-2014 17:16	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Source, ]
04-Jul-2014 17:17	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Source, ]
12-Oct-2021 19:02	harro	Updated [Accident report, ]