Helicon Helicopter Services Robinson Helicopter Company R44 incident
Robinson Helicopter Company R44 · Incident: loss of engine power (partial) en route
From Oosterschelde to Kruiningen
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN13WA102
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Incident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Robinson Helicopter Company R44
- Aircraft type
- Robinson R44
- Category
- Helicopter · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- PH-WMW
- Operator
- Helicon Helicopter Services
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From OosterscheldeTo Kruiningen
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- En route · cruise
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of engine power (partial)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- None
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Aircraft power plant
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On January 21, 2012, at 1430 universal coordinated time, a Robinson Helicopter Company model R44, Dutch registration PH-WMW, made an uneventful forced landing after experiencing a partial loss of engine power near Oosterschelde, The Netherlands. The pilot and two passengers were not injured. The helicopter was registered to and operated by Helicon Helicopter Services, located in Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands. Day visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the flight that departed Kruiningen, The Netherlands, at an unspecified time.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Dutch Government. Further information may be obtained from:
The Dutch Safety Board P.O. Box 95404 2509 CK The Hague The Netherlands
Phone: (+31) 70 333 7000 Fax: (+31) 70 333 7077 E-mail: info@onderzoeksraad.nl Webpage: http://www.onderzoeksraad.nl/en/index.php
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by or obtained from The Dutch Safety Board.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN13WA102
- Event ID
- 20121214X95319
- Case number
- CEN13WA102
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: damage. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 7447ec987664eb2809f6194cc1647628b1bec055b44aef51f7fa4431e6974e84; retrieved 2026-09-15T20:35:54.483Z.