| Date: | Thursday 13 June 1991 |
| Time: | 11:33 |
| Type: | Aérospatiale AS 350B1 Ecureuil |
| Owner/operator: | Los Angeles Police |
| Registration: | N214LA |
| MSN: | 2134 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Los Angeles, CA -
United States of America
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Survey |
| Departure airport: | Los Angeles, CA |
| Destination airport: | Los Angeles, CA |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:On June 13, 1991, Officers Gary Alan Howe and Charles Randall Champe were killed when they experienced an in-flight engine failure which caused their helicopter to crash into a parking lot.
Sources:
1. FAA:
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?omni=Home-N-Number&nNumberTxt=214LA 2.
http://planecrashmap.com/plane/ca/N214LA/ 3.
http://www.odmp.org/officer/227-police-officer-gary-alan-howe 4.
http://www.odmp.org/officer/226-police-officer-charles-randall-champe 5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAPD_Air_Support_Division#Accidents_and_incidents 6.
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20001212X17333&key=1 7.
http://www.griffin-helicopters.co.uk/accidentdetails.aspx?accidentkey=11544 8.
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-06-21/local/me-1005_1_police-officers 9.
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-06-28/local/me-1347_1_helicopter-crash Media:
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
| 24-Oct-2008 10:30 |
ASN archive |
Added |
| 01-Jul-2014 20:56 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative, ] |
| 01-Jul-2014 20:57 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, ] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:24 |
ASN Update Bot |
Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency, ] |
| 16-Oct-2021 00:04 |
Captain Adam |
Updated [Location, Narrative, ] |
| 31-May-2023 05:25 |
Ron Averes |
Updated |
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