- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | July 14, 1994 |
Time: | 1536 |
Location: | Hanalei, Hawaii |
Operator: | Air Taxi - Papillion Helicopters Ltd. |
Flight #: | ? |
Route: | Lihue, HI - Lihue, HI |
AC Type: | Aerospatiale AS350D |
Registration: | N151BH |
cn / ln: | ? |
Aboard: | 7 (passengers:6 crew:1) |
Fatalities: | 3 (passengers:3 crew:0) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | The helicopter crashed into the water. All survived but were not equipped with life vests and 3 passengers drowned. Failure of the engine-driven fuel pump, which resulted in the loss of power, and the lack of aircraft flotation equipment. Factors related to the accident were: flight over water adjacent to terrain that afforded no suitable forced landing site, and the lack of a passenger briefing by the operator on the location and operation of life preservers |
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