Cockpit voice recorder transcript shows copilot pleaded in vain for chopper to flySeptember 16th, 2009 Transcript: Copilot pleaded for chopper to flyWASHINGTON — The copilot of a helicopter ferrying firefighters implored "Fly darlin', fly darlin', fly darlin', fly darlin ...'" as the chopper lost power and fell out of the air in a rugged area of Northern California last year, according to a cockpit voice recording transcript released Wednesday. Nine of 13 people aboard were killed.
Airport officials questioned over YSR copter crashSeptember 11th, 2009 HYDERABAD - A team of the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), probing the Sep 2 helicopter crash that killed Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and four others Friday quizzed officials at the Begumpet Airport here.
CBI to begin YSR chopper crash probe FridaySeptember 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team will begin Friday its probe into the helicopter crash that killed Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and four others last week, an official said Thursday.
Haryana chief minister's chopper makes unscheduled landingSeptember 9th, 2009 HISAR - A helicopter carrying Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda made an unscheduled landing here Wednesday due to bad weather ahead. District administration officials said that the helicopter carrying Hooda, who was flying from New Delhi to Muktsar in Punjab, landed in this Haryana city, 300 km from state capital Chandigarh, Wednesday afternoon.
YSR chopper voice recorder partly damagedSeptember 9th, 2009 Hyderabad, Sept 9 (IBNS) The Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) of the Bell-430 helicopter of Andhra Pradesh government, which crashed killing chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and four others, was found to be in a “partly damaged” condition. Indian representatives of the Bell helicopter company were asked to decode the CVR, but since it was damaged, decoding proved difficult, the state government's Crisis Management Committee informed home minister P Sabita Indra Reddy late Tuesday night.
DGCA probe team visits YSR chopper crash siteSeptember 9th, 2009 HYDERABAD - An investigation team of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), probing the Sep 2 helicopter crash that killed Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and four others, Wednesday visited the crash site in Kurnool district.
Week later, mystery of YSR chopper crash unsolvedSeptember 9th, 2009 HYDERABAD - A week after the helicopter crash that killed Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and four others, there is still no light on the circumstances that led to the accident.
YSR's chopper exploded after hitting hillockSeptember 3rd, 2009 HYDERABAD - The helicopter carrying Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and four others appeared to have exploded after hitting a hillock, said a senior official Thursday.
Congress Working Committee to meet as PMO confirms death of Andhra CM, four others (Lead:-YSR)September 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD - The Working Committee of the Congress Party will meet in the national capital on Thursday to decide on the leadership issue in Andhra Pradesh after the Prime Minister's Office confirmed that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy had died in a helicopter crash on Wednesday. The PMO said that five bodies had been found at the site where Reddy's chopper wreckage was discovered atop a hill about 40 nautical miles from Andhra Pradesh's Kurnoool district.
DGCA to probe YSR's chopper crashSeptember 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Thursday began a probe into the chopper crash that killed Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and four others Wednesday.
Government sets up panel to probe YSR chopper crashSeptember 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Thursday night constituted a four-member team to probe the chopper crash that killed Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and four others.
Andhra CM's chopper not airworthySeptember 2nd, 2009 HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI - A controversial twist was introduced into the case of missing Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajshekhar Reddy on Wednesday, when a private television channel revealed that the seven-seater Bell chopper that was carrying him to Chitoor, was not airworthy.
NY pilot who screamed radio warning: Plane that struck chopper 'looked like cruise missile'August 10th, 2009 NY pilot who radioed warning: Plane like missileNEW YORK —The pilot who radioed a desperate, last-minute warning says a plane that struck a helicopter over the Hudson River "looked like a cruise missile hitting a target."
Ben Lane warned fellow helicopter pilot Jeremy Clarke on Saturday that the plane was bearing down on him. Lane tells the Daily News that another pilot heard him scream "Watch out! Watch out!"
He doesn't remember screaming.
New cockpit voice recorder transcript shows Buffalo crash pilots discussed sickness, low payJuly 27th, 2009 Buffalo crash pilots discussed sickness, low payWASHINGTON — The co-pilot in February's airline crash in upstate New York complained to the flight's captain that she felt ill and would have skipped the flight but didn't want to pay for a hotel room, according to a new cockpit voice recorder transcript released Monday. The extended transcript, released by the National Transportation Safety Board, shows pilot Marvin Renslow commiserated with First Officer Rebecca Shaw, but didn't suggest she pull out of the flight.
Report blames deadly collision of Ariz. medical helicopters on both pilotsMay 9th, 2009 NTSB: Ariz. medical chopper crash pilots' faultFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The pilots of two medical helicopters that crashed in midair, killing seven people, are both to blame for failing to see and avoid each other near a hospital, federal investigators said Friday.
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