3 are currently missing after an Airbus H125 (AS350B3) crashed in Southeast Alaska. One teen was rescued the coast guard reported the individual rescued showed signs of mid hyperthermia.
The AStar was brand new flying from the factory in Texas. It was being tracked by the family when they noticed it stopped tracking. The pilot has forty years of combined fixed and rotor wing time.
The coast guard is still searching for 3 at this time.
If you donât were a survival suit itâs very unlikely to survive in the cold water. Letâs hope for the best though. If one guy made it thereâs hope for the other passengers as well. Take care up there! Canât be easy for you as well, working for a helicopter company in Alaska too.
Canât open the link as itâs not available in Switzerland/Europe.
NTSB Update: Helicopter was in âfree fallâ before fatal Southeast crash
(Crash site: Released by NTSB)
The pilot in a Southeast Alaska helicopter crash which left himself and one of his two sons missing, with another man subsequently found dead, had cut the helicopterâs power shortly before the crash according to federal investigators.
âIn a post-accident interview, [Aiden Pepperd] stated that the pilot âreached down and rolled the throttle off,ââ NTSB officials wrote. âHe added that the pilot left the collective up and the helicopter entered a free fall from about 500 [feet above ground level], then about 30 [feet above ground level] he increased the throttle again. He felt (the) helicopter impact the water and noticed water splash in the cabin, then went unconscious.â
The NTSB report doesnât say why Josh Pepperd would have cut the Airbusâs engine power.
