Families of military members killed in 2020 Cyclone helicopter crash sue manufacturer
The lawsuit alleges that the company analyzed the flight data from the crash and found the system would take control of the helicopter when pilots were making “significant pedal and cyclic inputs” while in autopilot mode, as they were on April 29, 2020.
A flight safety investigation report by the Airworthiness Investigative Authority for the Forces dubbed the software issue a “command model attitude bias phenomenon,” which “develops under a very specific and narrow set of circumstances.”The Air Force’s director of flight safety at the time, Brig.-Gen. John Alexander, was quoted saying that the phenomenon “was unknown to the manufacturer, airworthiness authorities and aircrew” prior to the accident.
“Sikorsky’s testing of its under the incident flight’s conditions repeatedly and consistently resulted in a fatal crash. At the time of the incident, Sikorsky’s was performing exactly as Sikorsky had designed it.”
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