The NTSB has reported on a July 4, 2019 fatal accident involving a private medical evacuation flight from the Bahamas to Fort Lauderdale in Florida. Lower Fuselage AW139 N32CC (Credit: NTSB).

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", Leonardo said that it "continues to work closely with the investigating authorities" and that "the company does not envisage the need to take any airworthiness actions as a result of the present investigation.

Rotorheads - AW139 Crash in Bahamas - 7 Killed - Originally Posted by atakacs Just wondering: who will be the lead agency investigating this one? The NTSB's recently released accident docket of the July 4, 2019, Leonardo AW139 crash in the Bahamas points to pilot performance and lack of situational awareness. This amount of collective was greater than any of the ten prior flights, though the time of disengagement of the FTR was about average. Bahamas AW139 Crash Kills Seven. The direction of the turn and crosswind direction showed no correlation…. Right tail rotor pedal was applied for all flights, to counter the yaw imparted by the main rotor, which varied from 45% to less than 20%.

About 15 hours later, local residents in the Bahamas found the aircraft inverted about 1.5 miles from the crash site in 16 feet of water. The CVR recorded numerous TAWS / EGPWS warnings during the short flight.

…was to demonstrate the functionality and pilot use of the relevant features of the Primus Epic Automatic Flight Control System (AFCS) on the AW139 helicopter flight deck. In the early morning of July 4, an AW139 helicopter carrying a pilot and six passengers took off from a private island in the northern Abacos. NTSB further explain that the PIC held a Commercial Pilots Licence (CPL) and the SIC held an Air Transport Pilot Licence (ATPL).

The helicopter was believed to be transporting Cline, his daughter Kameron, and several of her friends after Kameron Cline experienced a medical issue.

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Between 28 August and 12 October 2017 both had received AW139 type training from Leonardo’s training academies in Whippany, New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The flight director mode for the collective then transitioned to ALTA for all flights. …while the target vertical speed was 100 ft/min, as the helicopter transitioned from descending to ascending the helicopter’s actual vertical speed increased momentarily to nearly 1000 ft/min at 1:52:53. Initially nose up, the aircraft was pitched nose down starting at 01:52:35.

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During the initial climb out, the PIC was flying with both the collective and cyclic controls, as the FTR switches on both were depressed.

He also scored below average for Category A takeoffs and use of the flight director.

Additionally, the attitude of the accident helicopter was about 10° more nose down than any of the prior flights during each loss of altitude. The change in vertical acceleration at impact was about 2 g’s in two seconds. These conditions “typically occur over water or over dark, featureless terrain where the only visual stimuli are lights located on and/or near the airport or landing zone”.

The Bahamas Air Accident Investigation Division, Department of Civil Aviation, the Royal Bahamas Police, and the Defense Force are investigating, along with technical assistance from the FAA, Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB), and Leonardo. Ryanair Remains Committed to Boeing 737 Max Despite Traffic Collapse, FreeFlight Adds Digital-to-Analog Radar Alt Convertor, EASA Approves SkyWay Group's SkyStep for Citations, Corporate Angel Network Nets $275k in Virtual Auction, Embraer Steps Up Plans for New Regional Turboprop Airliner, Mitsubishi Suspends Development of M90 Airliner, Gulfstream Increases Ranges of G500, G600, Mid-Year Aerospace & Air Transport Report. Twenty-three seconds before impact, the PIC appears to recognize and momentarily recover from pitch down attitude, acknowledging, "Yeah, we were diving," before reinitiating it. The aircraft was losing altitude, gaining speed, and in a nose down attitude. The AW139 that crashed came off the assembly line more than a decade ago and between 2008 and 2017 was in the fleet of British Columbia-based London Air Services until being sold in September, 2017 to the Cline-owned Challenger Management LLC. Cline regularly visited via the AW139, his C208 floatplane or by vessel (the oddly named ‘Dirty Mines‘). UPDATE 24 August 2020: a topic discussed here: Can a fatal accident provide proof that CRM training does save lives? The helicopter’s retractable landing gear remained extended. The helicopter reached a maximum altitude of 212 ft at 01:53:12 while banking left 30°. a) Safety Culture and Leadership and b) Contracting Aviation Services: An Introduction to the Basics.

Photos of the wreckage show tail boom separation, the cabin section laying inverted on the seabed, and significant impact damage to the remaining fuselage. Wreckage of AW139 N32CC off Big Grand Cay, Bahamas (Credit: Police/AAID via NTSB), Salvage of Challenger Management AW139 N32CC off Big Grand Cay, Bahamas (Credit: AAID via NTSB). Investigators have departed for the crash site at Grand Cay, Abaco. The NTSB Human Performance Factual Report explains that Challenger Management at that time operated this AW139 and four fixed wing aircraft (an ERJ 190, EMB 550, EMB 505 and a Cessna 208), seemingly all for Chris Cline. At 1:53:22, when the helicopter impacted the water, the PI was 85%, the collective 75% (and increasing), and the longitudinal cylic was 73%. Cline, with family and friend had been on the island for a break to celebrate the US public holiday, his daughter and her friend’s college graduation and Cline’s 61st birthday (on 5 July).

Send Feedback | @SharkParsons, Wreckage of the AW139 that crashed in the Bahamas on July 4, killing seven passengers, is recovered from the Atlantic Ocean.

They employed five pilots at their base in West Palm Beach, Florida. At 01:53:09, as the helicopter climbed, the longitudinal cyclic began to again advance forward as collective reached its minimum of 46%.

Another witnesses reported seeing and hearing an accident. Instructor feedback during the training is recorded by NTSB and is worth examination for context, as are the instructor statements.

Officials from the Italian manufacturer are assisting with investigating the state of manufacture of the aircraft. The flight however departed from a private, unapproved helipad on Big Grand Clay in ‘black-hole‘ conditions. The PIC commented about an instrument display value of “300” shortly after the helicopter’s vertical speed passed 300 ft/min. Dark night visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan was filed for a flight from Walker’s Cay Airport (MYAW), Walker’s Cay, Bahamas, to Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport (FLL), Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Investigators were by then on-site documenting wreckage to determine if the complete craft was recovered. About 15 hours later, local residents in the Bahamas found the aircraft inverted about 1.5 miles from the crash site in 16 feet of water. | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Content Policy. At 1:52:49, as the helicopter was descending, the ALTA (altitude acquire) mode became active for the collective and the IAS (indicated airspeed) mode became active for pitch, and the collective FTR was briefly engaged.

A second pilot aboard, David Jude, 57, was employed by Cline. "The tailboom was separated from the aft fuselage and was recovered in multiple pieces," according to the report.

Ten of those flights were daylight, the other four could not be determined.

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