The fatal Virginia State Police helicopter crash immediately following the violent Aug. 12, 2017 Unite the Right rally was probably caused by a dangerous flight condition called vortex ring state and ...

Jim Clayton, founder of Clayton Homes, was at fault in a helicopter crash that killed his brother in August 2020, according to a final report by the National Transportation Safety Board. The exact ...

Flight training should not result in unrecoverable flight conditions or catastrophic structural failures, yet two recently released National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) accident reports have ...

Everybody ages differently, and there's no golden rule for when a person should give up tasks they handled easily when they were younger. But when it comes to flying helicopters, 86 years old is "well ...

A vortex ring state study undertaken by EASA will focus on recovery methods for various helicopter types. A vortex ring state study undertaken by EASA will focus on recovery methods for various ...

European regulators are hopeful that newly commissioned research into vortex ring state (VRS) will deliver a significant safety boost for helicopter operators, and potentially lead to change in ...

Canada's helicopter training manual distinguishes between vortex ring and other situations. Vortex ring state. (Photo: By U.S. Dept. of Transportation, FAA, Flight Standards Service - Helicopter ...

The behavior of the trim string is directly indicative of the airflow condition over the nose. Photo Credit: Vuichard Recovery Aviation Safety Foundation Helicopters are particularly vulnerable to ...

A conversation between a Virginia State Police helicopter pilot and his trooper co-pilot before a crash that killed both of them referred to an aerodynamic phenomenon that a National Transportation ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A final report ...