A video of the accident of a brand new Leonardo AW169 helicopter has been posted on the Internet (UH-169A), acquired by Italy for the needs of the Financial Guard.
incident occurred 27 March at Bolzano airport. As you can understand from the laid out frames, The crew of the rotorcraft was taxiing along the runway, gradually increasing engine speed. In this moment, apparently, the screws are misaligned, The equipment that never took off lost stability and crashed to the ground, throwing technical fragments over the airport territory.
At the same time, two technicians were present on the takeoff field. While one of them hastened to retreat, the second one took the fire extinguisher, waiting for the car to catch fire. but, how can you understand, there were no serious consequences. allegedly, damage, inflicted on the crew, limited himself to bruises.
This is already another incident, observed in global aviation over the past week. In three cases from a whole list of incidents, disasters occurred, resulting in human casualties. We are talking about the death of three crew members of the Russian Tu-22M3 bomber as a result of an abnormal activation of the catapult. Cessna light plane crashes in Mexico 401, clinging to power lines; six people were killed. Two Taiwanese Air Force F-5E fighters collided in the sky, Both pilots were killed.
