Helicopter Accidents

Helicopter Accident Attorney - New York (NY)

New York (NY) Lawyer Helping Helicopter Victims

Each year men and woman in our military are killed in helicopter crashes. Although the majority of these crashes occur during combat, some have occurred due to mechanical defects.

Because helicopters are very complex machines, they require the highest level of operational and mechanical skill. When these skills are compromised, accidents happen.

Helicopters are also used to transport those critically injured from remote accident scenes, used for law enforcement, sightseeing, and recreation.

Some high profile helicopter crashes include:

• July 12,1993: NASCAR driver Davey Allison was critically injured in a crash while trying to land his Hughes 369HS helicopter at Talladega Super Speedway. He died the next day. The official cause of the crash was the pilot's poor decision to land downwind in a confined area, surrounded by high obstructions, and his failure to properly compensate for the tailwind condition, coupled with the pilot's lack of experience in the airframe.
  
• August 27, 1990: Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed in a helicopter crash near East Troy, Wisconsin. The helicopter in question, a Bell BHT-206-B Helicopter, remained at a lower altitude and crashed into terrain soon after taking off into fog. Failure of the pilot to reach adequate altitude before flying over rising terrain resulted in the deaths of all five aboard.
  
• July 23, 1982: Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors (Myca Dinh Le and Rene Chen) were killed when a Bell UH-1B Huey helicopter landed on them during the filming of the movie Twilight Zone. The helicopter was sent out of control when its tail rotor was hit by an explosive charge from the special effects during the filming of a scene.

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