# NTSB GAA19WA598: Aerospatiale AS350, Kitzbühel, Austria, December 12, 2019

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Serious injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: December 12, 2019, 08:20 local (08:20 UTC)
- Place: Kitzbühel, Austria
- Coordinates: 47.44, 12.31 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=47.4400&lon=12.3100&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Maneuvering](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/450) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Maneuvering-hover: External load event (Rotorcraft)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/480)
- Highest injury: Serious injuries
- Injuries: 1 serious, 1 uninjured; on the ground: 1 serious
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office: General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 104256
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA19WA598
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/104256/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA19WA598

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Maneuvering-hover: External load event (Rotorcraft)](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/480) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 51 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/480/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: OE-XHE (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: AEROSPATIALE AS350 (B3)
- Category: Helicopter
- Damage: No damage
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: Wucher Helicopter
- Registered owner: Wucher Helicopter

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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