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Originally Posted by BlakeJones
Turns out one of the passengers in the chopper pulled the emergency fuel shut off valve when he was extending to take selfies off the side of the heli. Chopper ran out of fuel, lost altitude, pilot goes to turn off the fuel to avoid a fireball, realizes it had already been pulled, too little too late
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/n...interview.html |
The amazing thing is the NTSB has known about this problem for 10 years, even put it into a report in 2008, yet apparently did nothing to address it.
"After one of the helicopters crashed in Alaska in 2008, killing four people, investigators determined that a passenger had likely bumped the aircraft's fuel flow control lever with either his foot or backpack. It noted that Canadian officials had blamed a non-fatal accident in 1994 on a similar accidental movement of the fuel control lever by a passenger.
"The NTSB is concerned that the FFCLs on Eurocopter AS350-series helicopters can be easily and inadvertently moved out of their detents by objects or persons, including the pilot and passengers, in flight or on the ground," the NTSB wrote in its report on the 2008 crash."
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