The National Transportation Safety Board issued a preliminary report on the fatal UMMC helicopter crash that took place on March 10 in northern Madison County. Although the report does not state a reason for the crash, it provides a great deal of information.
The UMMC flight went down in the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area (by Turcotte Shooting Range). The flight nurse reported on the radio "we've got a major problem, we are having an emergency landing in an empty field right now, ops are not good, controls are giving us alot of trouble, coming in fast" before going silent.
An employee at the hatchery witnessed the crash. He said there was a loud "boom" and the helicopter began a swift descent until it crashed 15 seconds later. A pilot, paramedic, and flight nurse died.
The helicopter caught fire, burning the wreckage as seen in the picture above.
8 comments:
OMG !
Now I understand why the folks at the scene said "if it were not for rotor blade", we wouldn't have known it was even a helicopter.
Catastrophic hydraulic pump failure led to loss of flight controls.
@9:53 PM This model has dual hydraulic pumps. Regardless, the NTSB won't release the probable cause for close to a year from now.
High probability they hit a flock of birds over the refuge.
Some of the issue with figuring out what happened mechanically is that the craft has extensive burn damage. In airline crashes, besides the black box and CVR, there is huge amounts of aircraft intact to investigate. This case, the craft burnt completely up eliminating a lot of the equipment to analyze. That will make identification of the cause more difficult to identify.
Humans take a calculated risk every time we try to slip the bonds of gravity and soar like Icarus.
I have watched enough YouTubers dissect crashes and it is nearly always the simplest human error at fault.
If the maintenance regime is followed as regulated, the hardware rarely fails.
The reason combat veteran fighter pilots make the best commercial pilots is because they learn how to function during high-stress aerial situations.
Bocine scatology. With 60 years as a pilot/12,000+ hours, licensed in three countries, hardware frequently fails. They are machines.
"Regardless, the NTSB won't release the probable cause for close to a year from now."
Why do you suggest they won't release a report as soon as the conclusion receives the signature of the required 'review signatories'?
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