Helimarte Taxi Aereo Aerospatiale AS350B accident
Aerospatiale AS350B · Accident: loss of engine power (total) during initial climb
From Iporanga - Guarujá Heliport (SDIX) to Hospital Albert Einstein Helipad (SDHV)
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA15WA098
- 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
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Final · CENIPA final report
- API-reported fatalities
- 5 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- 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
Aerospatiale AS350B
- Aircraft type
- Aerospatiale AS350
- Category
- Helicopter
- 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
- PT-HNC
- Operator
- Helimarte Taxi Aereo
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Iporanga - Guarujá Heliport (SDIX), GuarujaTo Hospital Albert Einstein Helipad (SDHV), Heliponto Hospital Albert Einstein, São Paulo, SP
- 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
- Initial climb
- 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 (total)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On December 27, 2014, about 1240 UTC, an Aerospatiale AS350B, Brazil registration PT-HNC, collided with trees near Rio-Santos, Bertioga, Brazil. The pilot and 4 passengers were fatally injured, and the helicopter was destroyed. The helicopter was registered to and operated by Helimarte Taxi Aereo, under the provisions of a commercial air transport non-scheduled domestic passenger flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and flight plan information is unknown. The flight originated about 2 minutes earlier from Iporanga-Guaruja Helipport (SDIX), Guaruja-Sao Paulo, Bazil, and was destined for Imigrantes Heliport (SDEY), Diadema, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The helicopter crashed shortly after takeoff into a wooded area, and an explosion occurred upon contacting the ground. The helicopter was equipped with a Roll-Royce engine.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Government of Brazil. Any further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Aeronautical Accident Prevention And Investigation Center (CENIPA) Information Technology Division SHIS-QI 05-VI Comar Brasilia-DF, Brazil, 71.615.600 Phone: 55 61 3364 8819 Facsimile: 55 61 3365 1004 E-mail: dti@cenipa.aer.mil.br
This report is for informational purposes only, and contains information released by or obtained for the Government of Brazil.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA15WA098
- Event ID
- 20150113X15218
- Case number
- ERA15WA098
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (5)
- 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.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 40b44c7898a370542c52d77ce6f81674d3a4196d1755a6f984bff1512b67378f; retrieved 2026-09-14T17:30:55.730Z.
- Checked against the CENIPA (Centro de Investigação e Prevenção de Acidentes Aeronáuticos), Brazil final report on 2026-09-18. The report states the same date, fatalities, registration, operator, departure and damage. Taken from the report: ground fatalities and destination. Not checked: place, crash-site coordinates, flight number, aircraft type and type of operation.