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| Date: | Saturday 7 June 2025 |
| Time: | 12:53 |
| Type: |  AgustaWestland AW119Ke Koala II |
| Owner/operator: | Kestrel Aviation |
| Registration: | VT-RNK |
| MSN: | 14841 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2015 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 4013 hours |
| Engine model: | PWC PT6B-37A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Guptkashi, Rudraprayag -
 India
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Bharasu-Kestrel Aviation Helipad |
| Kedarnath | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB India |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
An AgustaWestland AW119 Koala made a hard forced landing on Kedarnath Road, causing the tail boom to break upon hitting a car. The main rotor struck and damaged the room of a roadside building.
After take-off the helicopter made a counter-clockwise turn and initiated flight towards Kedarnath. Soon after liftoff, the helicopter began to lose altitude. While the main fuselage cleared the edge of the elevated helipad, the tail rotor
guard and tail rotor blades hit the edge of the helipad, causing significant damage to the tail rotor blades tips and leaving visible grooves on the concrete edge of the helipad.
Following the tail rotor strike, the helicopter kept losing height and crash-landed on the national highway situated immediately below the helipad at approx. 40 to 50 feet.
During the crash landing, the helicopter impacted a commercial shop structure on one side of the road and a parked vehicle on the opposite side, causing damage to both. The helicopter sustained substantial structural damage, including separation of the tail boom and collapse of the landing gear. The aircraft came to rest in a perpendicular position to the road effectively blocking the entire roadway
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://palpalnewshub.com/helicopter-makes-emergency-landing-on-kedarnath-highway-all-passengers-safe/
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 23 April 2023 | VT-RNK | Kestrel Aviation Pty Ltd | 0 | Kedarnath Helipad, Uttarakhand | |
min |
| Ramp, ground handling | ||||||
Location
Media:
`रुद्रप्रयाग में क्रेस्टेल एविएशन प्राइवेट लिमिटेड के हेलीकॉप्टर ने जब हाईवे पर इमरजेंसी लैंडिंग की तो कैसे एक वाहन क्षतिग्रस्त हुआ, इस वीडियो में देखिए।#copteremergencylqnding #Kedarnath #rudraprayag #emergencylanding pic.twitter.com/U8N9CsV8tr
— Ajit Singh Rathi (@AjitSinghRathi) June 7, 2025
Emergency landing of helicopter on road in rudraprayag pic.twitter.com/3Xk16P22Vp
— Rahul Kumar (@Raulkkashyap) June 7, 2025
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 07-Jun-2025 09:21 | ASN | Added |
| 07-Jun-2025 09:22 | ASN | Updated [Source, Embed code, ] |
| 07-Jun-2025 09:29 | gerard57 | Updated [Phase, Nature, Narrative, ] |
| 07-Jun-2025 11:55 | Aerossurance | Updated [Location, Nature, Narrative, ] |
| 07-Jun-2025 14:23 | ASN | Updated [Total occupants, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative, ] |
| 07-Jun-2025 14:28 | ASN | Updated [Departure airport, Embed code, Narrative, Category, ] |
| 07-Jun-2025 21:54 | vasilf | Updated [Embed code, ] |
| 15-Jun-2025 07:26 | ASN | Updated [Plane category, ] |
| 11-Sep-2025 05:42 | ASN | Updated [Time, Narrative, Accident report, ] |
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