Alfa-Helicopter Bell 427 crashes

Alfa Helicopter has released the news of the crash of one of its air ambulance helicopters. On the afternoon of 5 February 2010, during a secondary mission involving a flight from Hosín to Jihlava, Czech Repblic, an accident took place involving an Alfa-Helicopter Bell 427 helicopter, registration number OK-AHB. The incident occurred in an area east of the village of Horní Olesná. None of the members of the crew were injured.
During the flight, after a deterioration in the weather conditions, the pilot decided to return to base. Upon reducing speed and height, the helicopter came into contact with the terrain, leading to a separation of the undercarriage and, after rotor contact with the ground, causing the helicopter to turn over onto its left side.
At 16:20 hrs, a replacement helicopter from our Alfa-Helicopter’s partner company, DSA, was ready in Hradec Kralove, an EC135. At 17:15 hrs, at the Alfa-Helicopter base in Olomouc, another replacement helicopter, a Bell 206 L4T, was made ready. However, neither of these helicopters was able to undertake the flight, due to poor weather conditions. On 6 February 2010 at 08:00 hrs, the weather conditions allowed for a flight from Olomouc to Jihlava, and at 13:00 hrs on the same day, there were conditions to fly from Jihlava to Hosín. The Bell 206 L4T helicopter arrived at the base in Hosín at 13:40 hrs.