•Wreckage of the crashed helicopter A Malaysian national and a Filipino were killed today when a helicopter crashed in a vacant lot about two hours southeast of Manila. The helicopter was carrying five people, including two Malaysians, when it went down in a grassy area of a residential district in Pililla, a small town in […]
•Late Herbert Wigwe, wife and son The United States National Transportation Safety Board has attributed the helicopter crash that killed former Access Holdings CEO, Herbert Wigwe, his wife, son, and three others to pilot error caused by spatial disorientation. The NTSB report, released today, further indicted the helicopter company, accusing i...
•Part of the wreckage as rescue crews search the waters of the Potomac River after a passenger plane on approach to Reagan National Airport crashed into the river after colliding with a US Army helicopter, near Washington, DC, today US officials said today there were likely no survivors after a passenger jet carrying 64 people […]
The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has said that it would recommence the collection of the controversial $300 landing fee on helicopter operators in the country soon. Speaking at the ongoing 53rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers’ Association (NATCA) yesterday in Kano, Mr. Tayo John, Director of A...
The black box, flight data recorder (FDR), or cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the Sikorsky SK76 helicopter have been recovered, the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) said today. On October 24, the ill-fated aircraft, operated by East Wind Aviation and hired by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, nosedived in River...
A week after the crash of Eastwind Aviation’s Sikorsky SK76 helicopter in the Atlantic Ocean in Port Harcourt, the debris and the black boxes are yet to be found. Joint efforts by the military and the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) to recover the debris and the remains of four out of eight persons onboard […]
An ill-fated helicopter in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, today, had personnel of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) onboard. NNPCL spokesman Olufemi Soneye, in a statement, confirmed that the helicopter operated by East Winds Aviation was engaged by NNPC Limited. The copter crashed at 11:22 a.m. along the waterw...
A helicopter carrying eight passengers, today, Thursday, crashed in Rivers State. According to the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development, eight persons were on board when the helicopter “ditched into the waters near Bonny Finima in the Atlantic Ocean,” reports Vanguard. According to a statement by Odutayo Oluseyi, Head, Press and Publ...
•Helicopter A helicopter crash has killed four passengers, including a child, in the southern US city of Houston, authorities said, with the accident also destroying a radio transmission tower. The private aircraft “either struck a cable or actually struck at the tower”, Houston police chief Noe Diaz told reporters. No one on the ground was [&...
•Helicopter crash A helicopter crashed in central Nepal today, killing all five people aboard including the pilot and four Chinese passengers. Nepal has a woeful track record on aviation safety and the Himalayan republic has seen a spate of deadly light plane and helicopter crashes over the decades, reports AFP. The Air Dynasty chopper was [&h...
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