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Air Traffic Monitoring => Listener Forum => Topic started by: bigguy_132 on June 16, 2010, 11:48:11 AM
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Bird strike at KFAR Monday morning. I guess it was a medical chopper the bird went through the windshield. No audio at the moment.
http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/281994/group/homepage/
ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating whether a bird strike shattered a windshield on a medical helicopter that was flying from Aberdeen to Fargo.
The Careflight helicopter from Avera St. Luke's Hospital made a safe emergency landing early Monday at Hector International Airport in Fargo. The pilot was treated for minor injuries. A paramedic, nurse and patient also were onboard.
In September 2002, four people were killed in a Careflight helicopter crash south of Doland. An official cause has never been released.
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A few more details can be found in the following article, including the only decent photo I could find of N509MT, the Careflight Bell 407 helicopter involved:
http://www.aberdeennews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100616/FRONTPAGE/6160329/0/NEWS10
For those of you more techno-savvy than myself that care to edit this clip, this incident can be found in the archives:
Fargo Tower (KFAR), 14 June 2010, ~05:50Z (12:50AM CDT) to ~06:15Z (1:15AM CDT):
Initial check in was about ~05:50Z when N509MT was northbound approaching Fargo. Next transmission was Fargo Tower confirming N509MT's destination hospital ~06:05Z, followed ~90 seconds later by the initial report of the birdstrilke. Last relative communications ended after a safe landing at Hector (KFAR) ~06:15Z.