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| Date: | Wednesday 18 February 2009 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Aerospatiale AS 350B3 Ecureuil |
| Owner/operator: | Mont Blanc Hélicoptères |
| Registration: | F-GMBH |
| MSN: | 3125 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1998 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Annemasse Airport -
 France
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Annemasse Airfield (QNJ/LFLI) |
| Annemasse Airfield (QNJ/LFLI) | |
| Investigating agency: | BEA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Tail boom struck the ground and the helicopter landed hard during a fuel control failure exercise, during instruction.
Cause: unintentional power control lockout by the pilot.
Contributing factor: Difficulty in language understanding between those on board, performance of an inappropriate failure drill under inappropriate conditions.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://bea.aero/en/investigation-reports/notified-events/detail/heurt-de-la-poutre-de-queue-avec-le-sol-et-atterriss-dur-lors-dun-exercice-de-panne-de-regulation-de-carburant-en-instruction
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 9 February 2003 | F-GMBH | Mont-Blanc Hélicoptères | 0 | Samoëns, Haute-Savoie department, Rhône-Alpes region | |
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| Heavy landing | ||||||
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 02-Oct-2022 12:47 | harro | Added |
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