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Westmeath: Helicopter crashed during ‘training manoeuvre’

The helicopter, a Bell 505 Jet Ranger X, with the student and instructor on board, departed Weston Airport (EIWT) at around 14:00 local time for a training flight.

It was to be part of a number of flights to prepare the student for a type of rating skills test on the Bell 505 helicopter type.

The helicopter proceeded generally westwards, and five manoeuvres, which appear to have been practice autorotations, were carried out.

At approximately 14:25, while operating in the vicinity of Killucan, and during what appears to have been a sixth practice autorotation, the helicopter “impacted with the surface of an agricultural field”, the report stated.

It then travelled forwards at a height sufficient to clear a boundary fence and impacted with a “gable wall of an agricultural building”.

The helicopter came to rest, in a “nose-down orientation”, in the wall and the roof of the building.

Both occupants were fatally injured.


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