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Date: | Tuesday 10 June 1986 |
Time: | |
Type: | Bell 205A-1 |
Owner/operator: | Frontier Helicopters |
Registration: | C-GXNE |
MSN: | 30127 |
Year of manufacture: | 1973 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Spences Bridge, BC -
Canada
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Phase: | |
Nature: | Fire fighting |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Following water pick-up from a river, a wire struck the windshield and dragged up into the rotor blades.
The helicopter descended into the river.
Sources:
ICAO Adrep Summary 1988-2
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