"Any reference to a loss of 500 feet in altitude is incorrect."Air force commander Lt.-Gen. Al Meinzinger said a team of airworthiness experts is working closely to develop a plan to safely and methodically return the helicopters to active service.He called it a "cousin fleet" to the S-92.In a statement, the Department of National Defence (DND) said that it uses such terminology when "a cause may not be immediately clear.""During this final complex manoeuvring turn to close with the ship, the aircraft did not respond as the crew would have anticipated," said the report.It points to possible flight control problems that could be either mechanical or computer-related.It is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. Air force flight safety investigators say they are looking at "aircraft system and human factors" in their probe of a CH-148 Cyclone helicopter crash off the coast of Greece at the end of April. Following the explosion, a black cloud of smoke is seen rising into the air. The aircraft dropped about 500 feet before the pilot was able to recover and reset the system, according to a source familiar with the incident.Investigators filed a preliminary flight safety report at the end of May and released a vague public statement today."It's not only a militarized version of the S-92 of the helicopter. Among other assignments, he spent a total of 15 months on the ground covering the Afghan war for The Canadian Press. On 20 January 1992, the aircraft operating the flight, an Airbus A320, crashed in the Vosges Mountains, France, near Mont Sainte-Odile, while circling to land at Strasbourg Airport.
The moment of the deadly An-148 passenger plane crash in Moscow region, in which 71 people lost their lives on Sunday, was captured by a surveillance camera installed on a private house near the crash site. Air force flight safety investigators say they are looking at "aircraft system and human factors" in their probe of a CH-148 Cyclone helicopter crash off the coast of Greece at the end of April.The reference to the aircraft not responding the way the crew "would have anticipated" is significant for two reasons.The report released Monday also formally lays out the sequence of events, which inevitably will lead to more public questions about how forthright both the military and the Liberal government were in their initial response to the crash.Murray Brewster is senior defence writer for CBC News, based in Ottawa. Air Inter Flight 148 was a scheduled passenger flight from Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport to Strasbourg Airport in France.
One crewmember is dead and five are missing in the crash of a Royal Canadian Air Force Sikorsky CH-148 … Stuart Anderson; stuart.anderson@archant.co.uk; PUBLISHED: 15:41 29 July 2020 | UPDATED: 08:58 30 July 2020. A 26-year-old Gatineau woman died after her vehicle crashed on Highway 148 near Quyon early Tuesday.
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Radio contact with flight 730 to Orsk was lost when it vanished from radar several minutes later. This one concludes by saying "the investigation is focusing on aircraft systems and human factors.""This is critical work and we will take the time to do it right," he said in a statement.Coyle said there would have been very few people in Canadian regulatory agencies at the time "who would have done certification of [a] fly-by-wire flight control system on a helicopter."To make the technological leap to fly-by-wire, where computers replace standard hydraulics and cables, is "expensive and took a lot of time to get right," said Coyle, who was also an accident investigator for Transport Canada and the author of several books."The pilots described this occurrence as similar to 'hitting a speed bump' and stated that it was difficult to distinguish from turbulence," said Lt.-Col. Steve Neta in a statement. Canadian CH-148 Cyclone Debris Field Found, Aircraft Went Down in Fair Weather.