Safety Alert
Large Container Lifted by Helicopter Downdraft
Large Container Lifted by Helicopter Downdraft
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 10-04
- Helicopter and AviationLifting Operations
- Dropped objects
- Helicopter operations
- Helicopter
- Positive retention and reliable securing
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Summary
A helicopter landing generated downdraft that lifted an unsecured container weighing around 200 kilograms over handrails. It fell around 10 metres to the deck below and was damaged. Stored on wooden battens beside the helipad, it had survived previous landings. No injuries occurred, but serious injury potential was reported.
Classifications: Dropped objects; falling objects; DROPS.
Classifications: Helicopter operations; offshore aviation; rotary-wing operations.
Classifications: Helicopter; rotorcraft.
Classifications: Positive retention and reliable securing.
IADC Alert 10-04. Themes: helicopter and aviation, lifting operations.