ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 121980
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| Date: | Wednesday 27 April 2011 |
| Time: | 11:40 LT |
| Type: |  Bell UH-1N Iroquois |
| Owner/operator: | US Air Force (USAF) |
| Registration: | 69-6603 |
| MSN: | 31009 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1971 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | S of Kirtland AFB, NM -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Kirtland AFB (KABQ), NM |
| Kirtland AFB (KABQ), NM | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Air Force investigators say an Air Force helicopter crashed at the south of Kirtland Air Force Base at about 11:40 a.m. Wednesday. They said the Bell UH-1N helicopter went down 20 miles southwest of the base near Rio Puerco and Highway 6 west of Los Lunas. Air force officials said two instructor pilots, a flight engineer and a student flight engineer were on-board when the chopper crashed.
The helicopter was flying over a remote training area that the air force uses to teach aerial operations like hovering and simulated hoisting for rescue and recovery operations.
A device on the hoist cable snagged an obstacle.
Sources:
http://story.albuquerqueexpress.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d867a54a6fc00b3b/id/44948259/
http://aerossurance.com/helicopters/usaf-hoist-training-accident
http://www.airforcemag.com/AircraftAccidentReports/Documents/2011/042711_UH-1N_Kirtland.pdf
Media:
#OTD 2011 Skipped steps in a procedure + an undetected drift = a snagging an object and flying the tethered #helicopter into the ground.https://t.co/rLxedtBy0G #military #accident #aviationsafety #flightsafety #sar #searchandrescue pic.twitter.com/FFpCS3UXKF
— Aerossurance (@Aerossurance) April 27, 2021
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Apr-2011 02:01 | gerard57 | Added |
| 28-Apr-2011 02:02 | gerard57 | Updated [Date] |
| 28-Apr-2011 02:28 | RobertMB | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 24-Aug-2013 13:46 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative] |
| 08-Nov-2013 09:52 | TB | Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Sep-2016 17:08 | Aerossurance | Updated [Time, Operator, Narrative] |
| 24-Apr-2019 21:31 | Aerossurance | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 25-Apr-2019 18:20 | Aerossurance | Updated [Source] |
| 27-Apr-2021 05:53 | Aerossurance | Updated [Embed code] |
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