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https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/268336Date: 04-OCT-2021
Time: c. 13:30
Type: Kaman K-1200 K-Max
Owner/operator: Black Tusk Helicopter Inc
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.6200051
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.62000511 dead after logging helicopter crashes on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast
Helicopter went down near Killam Bay, around 40 km north of Sechelt
CBC News · Posted: Oct 05, 2021 8:02 AM PT | Last Updated: October 6
One person has died after a helicopter crashed into the ocean
Monday on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast,
according to the RCMP.
Officials confirmed the helicopter went down around 2 p.m. PT in the area near Killam Bay,
at the entrance to Jervis Inlet,
around 40 kilometres north of Sechelt, B.C.
"Witnesses in the area were the first on scene and some debris of the helicopter was located,
but the lone occupant and pilot was not,"
read a statement from RCMP on Tuesday.
"A search was conducted in the area without success."
The aircraft was being used for heli-logging,
according to the Transportation Safety Board (TSB).
The TSB sent an investigator to Nanaimo, B.C.,
on Tuesday to gather information and assess what happened.
Spokesperson Chris Krepski said the helicopter was a Kaman K-MAX aircraft,
which is designed to lift more than half its own weight
and has been used commercially for logging since the 1990s.
Helicopter appeared to have sunk quickly, witness says
On Monday, Jarvis Gray, a driver with with High Tide Tours & Water Taxi in Egmont,
said he heard a call come in on his radio
saying that a helicopter had gone down in the area.
Gray said he was about five minutes away from the scene at the time,
so he jumped in his boat to see if he could help.
He was the first one to discover the wreckage.
The only thing he saw when he arrived
were three pieces of rotor blade sticking out of the water.
"I imagine everything else had sunk by that point.
And really, there wasn't anything left to see," Gray told CBC.
The B.C. Coroners Service is also investigating the pilot's death.
https://www.ohscanada.com/pilot-killed- ... ine-coast/
Police say in a news release that witnesses in the area
were first on the scene and while some of the debris was located,
the pilot was not.
The Transportation Safety Board says the pilot,
who was the lone occupant on the Kaman KMax helicopter,
was conducting heli-logging operations when the chopper crashed into the inlet.
The coast guard and the coroners service are also investigating
and an attempt will be made to recover the helicopter,
though police say that may take some time as the water in the area
is believed to be more than 150 metres deep.