Canadian authorities have ordered urgent replacement of rotor hub strap pins on certain Bell helicopters after premature failure of the component was found during investigation of a fatal Bell 212 ...

The AAIB found the seat’s safety pin was not fully installed and the previously disconnected harness chest strap caught on and inadvertently actuated the seat’s handle. The deceased instructor pilot, ...

A Bell UH-1H operated by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Source: CAL FIRE During the first full week of July, Transport Canada and the FAA issued emergency airworthiness ...

A helicopter crashed while fighting a wildfire about an hour west of Edmonton because a part that held the rotors onto the aircraft failed, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) revealed in ...

Learn how to DIY your knackered strap pin holes in your guitar’s body the proper way using household tools. Guitar strap pins are always coming loose. You tighten it up and after practice, it’s loose ...

Heath Coleman was a veteran pilot with more than 20 years of experience behind the controls. He died in a helicopter crash west of Edmonton June 28. (Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing/Facebook) A ...

The AAIB found the seat's safety pin was not fully installed and the previously disconnected harness chest strap caught on and inadvertently actuated the seat’s handle. An improperly inserted safety ...