Helicopter Emergency Landing Pilot Police `` Aerial due to the wind makes the aircraft unstable '' February 1 18:21
A police helicopter carrying organs for transplant surgery accidentally landed and rolled over in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture on the morning of the 1st, and a police officer operating said, `` The aircraft became unstable due to the wind. " In the accident, seven people in a helicopter were seriously or slightly injured, and the planned heart transplant in Tokyo was canceled.
At 8:00 am on the 1st, a helicopter “Azuma” from the Fleet of Fukushima Police Headquarters landed in Mihoda-cho, Koriyama-shi, and landed.
Four people, including a 59-year-old chief of the Prefectural Police Headquarters Regional Planning Division and a doctor, were seriously injured in the chest and arms among the seven people who were on a helicopter in this accident.
The other police officers and police officers are light injuries.
Helicopter blades were scattered around the site, but there were no damage to nearby houses or residents.
According to police, a 38-year-old policeman who was piloting the helicopter said that the aircraft had become unstable due to the wind. ”.
The National Transportation Safety Commission will dispatch two aviation accident investigators to the site to investigate the cause of the accident in detail.
According to the Japan Organ Transplant Network, this helicopter was carrying a heart provided by a man in his 50s who was determined to have brain death, and was delivered to the University of Tokyo Hospital after the accident, but the hospitals etc. Surgery was discontinued because heart function could not be guaranteed.
This is the first time that transplant surgery has been discontinued due to an accident during the transfer of an organ.