Accident occurred Sunday, November 22, 2015 in New Taipei City, Taiwan
Aircraft: BELL 206, registration:
Injuries: 2 Fatal.
The foreign authority was the source of this information.
On November 22, 2015, about 0302 Coordinated Universal Time, a Bell 206 helicopter, Taiwan Island registration number B-31127, operated by Emerald Pacific Airlines, was destroyed following an impact with terrain about 7 nautical miles southwest of Taipei Songshan Airport, Taiwan. Both crew members received fatal injuries.
The AVIATION SAFETY COUNCIL, Taiwan is investigating the accident. As the state of manufacture of the helicopter engine, the NTSB has designated a U.S. Accredited Representative under the provisions of Annex 13 to the Convention on Civil Aviation to assist Aviation Safety Council (ASC) in their investigation.
All inquiries concerning this accident should be directed to ASC at:
Aviation Safety Council, Taiwan
11th Floor, 200, Section 3, Beixin Road, Xindian District
New Taipei City 231, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Tel: 886-1-89127388
Fax: 886-2-8912-7399
Taipei, Nov. 22 (CNA) A helicopter crashed in New Taipei's Taishan District on Sunday morning and the two people on board died.
The two victims are pilot Chen Hsiu-ming (陳秀明), 49, and electrical worker Yu Hui-hsien (余惠賢), 36. The chopper is a Bell 206 jet ranger.
The New Taipei Fire Department received a call at around 11 a.m.; firefighters on the scene said the chopper, which belonged to the Emerald Pacific Airlines (凌天航空), did not cause any fires or hit private buildings.
The Aviation Safety Council was sending its employees to the scene.
The helicopter, numbered B-31127, has been in service for 14 years.
Emerald Pacific Airlines, founded in 1994 and based in Taichung, is the only airline contracted to clean cap and pin insulators on high-voltage transmission lines.
The carrier, with five helicopters, said on its Facebook page earlier in the day that it had sent two helicopters to clean a buildup of soot on insulators in the Taoyuan area caused by air pollution.
The carrier said the two men have worked for more than five years in the company and have kept normal and stable operating records. The carrier was sending employees to the scene and tried to determine the cause of the accident.
Emerald Pacific Airlines also provides professional aerial photography services, as it helped photograph a 2013 documentary film "Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above" (看見臺灣), which won the best documentary award at the 50th Golden Horse Awards.
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