Twenty-two accidents and incidents involving helicopter external load operators have been reported to Flight Safety Foundation’s Basic Aviation Risk Standard (BARS) program office in a period of slightly more than four years, BARS data show.
Of the 22 events, three were fatal accidents with a total of four fatalities, the BARS program office said in its BARS Data Analysis Report: External Load Operations, released in November 2016.1 The three fatal accidents all involved operators that were not BARS member organizations; BARS operators were involved in three other non-fatal accidents (Figure 1). Eleven incidents involved non-BARS members, and data on four other incidents did not indicate the operators’ BARS status.
Figure 1 — Accidents and Incidents in BARS and Non-BARS Operations*
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