National Transportation Safety Board

摘要

On September 23, 2005, an Aerospatiale AS350BA helicopter, N355NT, operated by Heli-USA Airways, Inc., as a 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135 sightseeing air tour flight, encountered adverse weather and crashed into the Pacific Ocean several hundred feet off the coast of Kailiu Point, near Haena, Hawaii. Although three of the five passengers died of drowning or drowning-related circumstances, none of the passengers or the pilot received any serious injuries during the crash sequence. According to the pilot and the two surviving passengers, after the helicopter settled on the water, it rolled to the right and began to sink immediately.