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• Jury: Engine flaw led to crash - 3/28/2012

  A faulty engine — not overloading — caused the deadly 2008 helicopter crash that killed...

  
• Helicopter crash families attend NTSB safety forum - 11/30/2011

  Representatives of four southwest Oregon families who lost loved ones in the 2008 crash of a...

• Carson Helicopters breaks silence about NTSB accident report - 1/13/2011

  Charging the National Transportation Safety Board with trying to make his company a scapegoat for...

• Helicopter co-pilot calls crash report inaccurate - 12/10/2010

  The Sikorsky helicopter co-pilot in the 2008 crash that killed nine people rejects the National...

• Fatal Mistakes: Report points to causes of 2008 helicopter crash - 12/8/2010

  Carson Helicopters' deliberate understatement of the weight of its Sikorsky aircraft and lapses in...

  
• Families call for improved safety measures - 12/8/2010

  A statement released by family members of the men killed or injured in the deadly Iron 44...

• Families of firefighters reportedly settle suits over crash - 6/5/2010

  PORTLAND — The families of seven firefighters killed and three injured in the crash of a...

• Helicopter crash probe raises doubts - 12/8/2009

  Members of Congress are questioning the thoroughness of a National Transportation Safety Board's...

• Parts missing from Sikorsky copter crash - 10/2/2009

  Federal investigators have determined that several parts have disappeared from a helicopter that...

• Firefighters to be honored at national service - 10/2/2009

  Seven wildland firefighters from Jackson and Josephine counties who died in a helicopter crash in...

• Report finds discrepancies in helicopter's reported weight - 9/17/2009

  A report issued Wednesday on a 2008 helicopter crash that killed seven Southern Oregon firefighters...