Helicopter Accidents Boeing-Vertol 107-ii

Boeing-Vertol 107-ii accidents

List of helicopter accidents

Year	Version	C/N
1961	107-ii	1	N6671D : BV-107/II-1 prototype, c/n 1, reg N6671D, ff 24Oct60; retained by Boeing Vertol for civilian FAA certification trials; 219 total flight hours when suffered hard landing and burned, 11Nov61; w/o 27Nov61; airframe presumed scrapped.
1963	107-ii	3	N6673D : NYA d/d01jun62; w/o 14oct63 New York Airways Flight 600 crashed shortly after takeoff from Idlewild Airport (now JFK) en route to Newark via Wall Street due to lubricant oil contamination leading to component fatigue; 3 crew and 3 passenger fatalities
1965	107-ii	201	JA9501 : BV-107/II-2, c/n 201, disassembled and supplied as sub-assemblies to Kawasaki as KV-107/II-2, c/n 4010, 1962; delivered to Kawasaki Heavy Industries for certification trials as JA9501, 01Apr64; w/o 04Sep65 with 287 total flight hours.
1965	ch-113a	4011	10417 : BV-107II-28, c/n 4011, ff?; del Cdn Army as CH-113A Voyageur 10417, May65; Struck off, after Category A crash near CJATC, Rivers, Manitoba, 27Sep65.
1966	ch-113a	4003	10409 : asg 1 Transport Helicopter Platoon (1 THP), Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, Canadian Joint Air Training Centre, Rivers Manitoba. Crashed north of the town of Rivers
1967	107-ii	105	JA9503 : BV-107II-2 c/n 105; supplied in kit form to Kawasaki in 1962, built as KV-107II-2, c/n 4004, del KHI-Air Lift Inc as JA9503, 20May63; used in filming James Bond 007 movie "You Only Live Twice"; w/o 05Aug67 with 1872 total flight hours.
1968	107-ii	103	JA9502 : BV-107II-2 c/n 103, orig reg N4625G; supplied in kit form to Kawasaki in 1962, built as KV-107II-2, c/n 4002, to Kawasaki Helicopter Systems as JA9502; served with Tokyo Airlines, unk; served with Kanki Airlines, unk; w/o in Japan 16Apr68.
1968	hkp4b	502	04062 : del to Swedish Marinen as Hkp4B #04062, 1964; w/o 06Sep68; crashed in the sea south of Huvudskär due to rear rotor mech failure. Four crew and 6 (of 8) passenger fatalities.
1974	ch-113a	4007	11313 : 11313 crashed near NAMAO, ALBERTA during night maneuvers on March 19, 1974 (Not in BC as noted). The crew of three, Capt. Ronald Raymond Fleming (36), Captain Ronald George Davidson (31) and MCpl Malcom Ross Caton (29) all perished in the crash. An investigation revealed the mishap resulted from internal rotor blade spar erosion and cracking resulting in about three metres of one of the forward blades detaching in flight. This resulted in a catastrophic mid-air breakup of the aircraft.
1982	107-ii	6	N6676D : sold to Columbia Helicopters as N6676D, Jan72; broke up in flight while maneuvering during logging operations near Cascade, ID on 14Oct82. Suffered rotor synchronization shaft failure and crashed to ground, 2 crew fatalities.
1992	ch-113a	4005	11311 : xfer CAF, reserialled as 11311, 1968; conv SARCUP std unk; Serving with No. 442 Squadron at CFB Comox, BC, when crashed on 30Apr92. Was hoisting stranded hikers when engine failed at high altitude causing crash at 5,000 ft level in mountains near Bella Coola, Vancouver Island. One fatality.
1996	hkp4a	407	N196CH : BV-107II-14, c/n 407, ff ?, reg N4636G; del to Swedish Air Force as Hkp4A #04457; sold Oct 1991 to Columbia Helicopters as N196CH. Written off October 04, 1996 in Canby, OR due to faulty maintenance procedures on flight control system, 3 fatalities.
1998	ch-113	305	11305 : xfer CAF, reserialled 11305, 1968; conv to SARCUP std, unk; suffered in-flight engine fire and crashed near Marsoui, Que, 02Oct98.
2001	107-ii	106	P2-CHA : lsd CHI-PNG as P2-CHA, unk; rtnd CHI as N186CH, unk.
2005	hkp4a	402	C-GHFT : lsd Helifor as C-GHFT, unk; broke up in flight while maneuvering during logging operations near Bella Bella, Canada, 03Nov05, 2 fatalities.

15 C/N found.