Papillon Grand Canyon Helicopter tar av fra Grand Canyon airport oktober 2011 - Foto: Per Gram (Red.)
7 hurt as Grand Canyon
tour helicopter makes hard landing
This image provided by Boulder City communications manager Lisa LaPlante shows a Grand Canyon tour helicopter after a Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022, crash described as a "hard landing" at Boulder City, Nev., Municipal Airport. Officials say the pilot and six passengers were taken to Las Vegas-area hospitals with injuries that were not life-threatening. (Lisa LaPlante/Boulder City via AP) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Wed, December 28, 2022 at 7:29 PM GMT+1·1 min read
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Grand Canyon tour helicopter
made a hard landing at a Las Vegas-area airport, injuring seven people,
officials said Wednesday. Authorities are investigating the cause.
Local responders and the National Transportation
Safety Board characterized it as a “hard landing” around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at
Boulder City Municipal Airport, while the Federal Aviation Administration
called it a crash while landing.
A photo posted on Facebook showed the red
helicopter upright in a flat desert area. There were no reports of a fire.
The pilot and six passengers were taken to
hospitals in Las Vegas and suburban Henderson for treatment of injuries that
Boulder City spokesperson Lisa LaPlante called not life-threatening.
The FAA said it is investigating, and the NTSB
identified the operator of the Airbus Helicopters EC130 T2 as Las Vegas-based
Papillon Grand Canyon Helicopter air tours.
Papillon representatives did not immediately
respond Wednesday to a telephone message.
FlightAware, an air traffic database, reported
that the 25-minute flight originated at the Grand Canyon near Kingman, Arizona,
and was headed for the Boulder City airport. Boulder City is a 30-minute drive
from downtown Las Vegas.
NTSB spokesperson Peter Knudson said a preliminary
report should be available within about three weeks.
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