In an accident in which a helicopter crashed in a rice field in Aoki Village, Nagano Prefecture, and six people were seriously injured, police moved the aircraft from the accident site to the police station.
In the future, we plan to start full-scale investigation of the cause of the accident.
On the 23rd, a helicopter heading for Matsukawa Village from Tokyo crashed into a rice field in Aoki Village, and six people on board were seriously injured.
From the 24th following the accident, three accident investigators of the Japan Transport Safety Board have begun investigating the cause of the accident jointly with the police.
On the 25th, police moved the crashed aircraft to the Ueda police station in order to investigate the aircraft in more detail.
At the accident site, from around 2:00 pm, the aircraft with the main rotor removed was slowly lifted by a crane and placed on the bed of a tow truck.
After that, the aircraft was carefully transported to the Ueda police station, which is about 11 kilometers away, for about 30 minutes and dropped onto the premises of the police station.
According to an accident investigator of the Japan Transport Safety Board, multiple fine granular metal pieces have been found inside the engine of the aircraft, and damage to the engine blades and muffler has been confirmed. That is.
However, it is unknown at this time whether the damage occurred before or after the crash and whether it led to the accident.
The police and the Japan Transport Safety Board are planning to investigate the aircraft in detail and listen to the pilots and the management company of the aircraft to investigate the cause of the accident in earnest.