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| Date: | Monday 16 November 2020 |
| Time: | 10:39 LT |
| Type: |  Airbus Helicopters H145 |
| Owner/operator: | Eliance Helicopters |
| Registration: | EC-MJK |
| MSN: | 20055 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2015 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Piera, Barcelona -
 Spain
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Ambulance |
| Departure airport: | Taulí Hospital, Sabadell, Barcelona |
| Piera, Barcelona | |
| Investigating agency: | CIAIAC |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The aircraft left the Taulí Hospital in Sabadell to provide an emergency medical service to a resident of the town of Piera, in Barcelona. Along with the pilot in the aircraft was a technical crew member and a medical team composed of a doctor and a nurse.
While performing the landing maneuver on a sloping terrain, the rotor blades hit the upper cable cutter of the helicopter, tearing it off.
The occupants were unharmed and the helicopter showed damage to the cable cutter itself which detached from the aircraft, taking away part of the helicopter's lining, and the breakage of one of the windshield panes. One of the aircraft's blades was damaged.
Cause: Landing contrary to the procedures, in a confined area with a slope that exceeded the established limits.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.mitma.gob.es/organos-colegiados/ciaiac/investigacion/2020/in-045-2020
Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes e Incidentes de Aviación Civil
http://aerossurance.com/helicopters/h145-hems-slope-recce-accident
Location
Media:
A #hems pilot was requested to land closer to a casualty. Having skipped a low recce, crew attention was on obstacles not the slope and landed after a Mast Moment warning.https://t.co/CmyaXSnng8#helicopter #airambulance #accident #flightsafety #aviationsaferty #humanfactors pic.twitter.com/a1AXzKeMsO
— Aerossurance (@Aerossurance) July 31, 2021
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 19-Nov-2020 20:05 | harro | Added |
| 19-Nov-2020 20:06 | harro | Updated [Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 27-Feb-2021 18:15 | rudy | Updated [Source] |
| 25-Jul-2021 14:38 | harro | Updated [Narrative, Accident report] |
| 31-Jul-2021 10:26 | Aerossurance | Updated [Time, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source] |
| 31-Jul-2021 10:42 | Aerossurance | Updated [Embed code] |
| 31-Jul-2021 10:43 | Aerossurance | Updated [Location, Embed code] |
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