Date:	Thursday 5 May 2011
Time:	11:32
Type:	Eurocopter AS 350B2 Ecureuil
Owner/operator:	Korea Forest Service
Registration:	HL9182
MSN:	2687
Year of manufacture:	1992
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	Near the Sogeum River in the country's northern province of Gangwon -   South Korea
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Gangneung Aviation Management Center
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
A South Korean Ecureuil (HL9182/FP902) crashed on the east coast of the country on Thursday May 5 2011, according to local media.

The helicopter, belonging to the Korea Forest Service, crashed at around 11:32 a.m. local time near the Sogeum River in the country's northern province of Gangwon. There were two pilots aboard when the accident took place, Seoul's Yonhap News Agency quoted local police as saying.

The bodies of two workers from the Korea Forest Service were found May 6, 2011 after their helicopter crashed in Gangneung the day before.

KFS officials said the cause of the crash will be difficult to determine, as the helicopter did not have a flight data recorder, or black box, installed. Nor do eight other helicopters in the service’s 47-chopper fleet.

The helicopter that crashed Thursday was on a routine mission to prevent forest fires and the KFS lost communication with it at 10:43 a.m.

After the accident, the KFS sent roughly 1,000 Army soldiers to look for the chopper and possible survivors, a difficult mission because of heavy fog and mountainous terrain. The bodies and charred pieces of the helicopter were found at 7:37 a.m. May 6, 2011.

http://english.sina.com/world/2011/0504/371900.html
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2935831
http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/society/2011/05/05/0701000000AKR20110505051100062.HTML?template=2087
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2935869

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
05-May-2011 03:24	gerard57	Added
05-May-2011 10:53	Anon.	Updated [Aircraft type, Source]
08-May-2011 03:38	RobertMB	Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport, Source, Damage]
08-May-2011 06:50	gerard57	Updated [Source, Damage, Narrative]
08-May-2011 07:53	gerard57	Updated [Narrative]
11-Jun-2011 04:15	RobertMB	Updated [Registration, Cn, Other fatalities, Narrative]