Fukushima Prefectural Police Helicopter Landing Accident Investigation by the National Transportation Safety Commission begins on February 2 at 11:57
In Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture, a police helicopter carrying organs for transplant surgery was accidentally landed, and seven people were seriously injured. We are dispatched to the site to investigate the situation of the accident in detail.
At 8:00 am on the 1st, a helicopter at the Fukushima Police Headquarters, Azuma, in Mihoda-cho, Koriyama City, landed on a rice paddy and rolled over. In addition to serious injuries, three people including police officers injured lightly.
The helicopter was carrying a heart extracted from a man determined to have brain death at a hospital in Aizuwakamatsu City for a transplant operation scheduled at the University of Tokyo Hospital, but the transplant operation was canceled in this accident Was.
At around 9 am on the 2nd, three aviation accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Commission arrived. Investigators look into the cockpit and see how the aircraft has broken down to investigate the situation of the accident in detail.
According to police, a 38-year-old policeman who was piloting a helicopter, a veteran with more than 10 years of experience, said, "We were hit by the wind and the aircraft became unstable temporarily. We picked rice fields and managed to pick up where there was no house. ".
The site was a rice field about 15 km southwest of JR Koriyama Station, and there were houses nearby, but the buildings and residents were not damaged.