This is the first article to point at a possible cause for the accident.
The photo of the pilot smiling hopefully wasn't reflective on the tragic loss of life for his passengers. Given the number of water landings in NYC it seems like tourist helicopters should probably be equipped with some water flotation skids that might have bought the passengers valuable time to unbuckle their belts before going upside down making it virtually impossible to do so.
This isn't the first time the AS350 has had fuel switch problems. There was another accident where investigators couldn't understand how the engines ran out of fuel so hopefully some safety improvements can be made. The recent Grand Canyon crash was over fuel tanks that should have been recalled, but this article doesn't make mention of it.
I had no clue that helicopter crashes were... a thing. This is the first I've really read (or even heard about) these types of catastrophes.
So interesting what kind of stuff turns up on this site! reallyread.it is almost at the size now (which is very exciting for me personally) where I don't have to go out finding articles to read anymore. I just go to the reallyread.it homepage, start at the top, and read downward. Even though the page doesn't fully refresh every single day, it still always contains plenty of new stuff on a daily basis. At any rate, it's plenty more than I have time to really read
This is the first article to point at a possible cause for the accident.
The photo of the pilot smiling hopefully wasn't reflective on the tragic loss of life for his passengers. Given the number of water landings in NYC it seems like tourist helicopters should probably be equipped with some water flotation skids that might have bought the passengers valuable time to unbuckle their belts before going upside down making it virtually impossible to do so.
This isn't the first time the AS350 has had fuel switch problems. There was another accident where investigators couldn't understand how the engines ran out of fuel so hopefully some safety improvements can be made. The recent Grand Canyon crash was over fuel tanks that should have been recalled, but this article doesn't make mention of it.
I had no clue that helicopter crashes were... a thing. This is the first I've really read (or even heard about) these types of catastrophes.
So interesting what kind of stuff turns up on this site! reallyread.it is almost at the size now (which is very exciting for me personally) where I don't have to go out finding articles to read anymore. I just go to the reallyread.it homepage, start at the top, and read downward. Even though the page doesn't fully refresh every single day, it still always contains plenty of new stuff on a daily basis. At any rate, it's plenty more than I have time to really read