- Date
- December 2, 2025, 11:00 local (11:00 UTC)
- Place
- Chillagoe, Australia
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- VH-HFQRobinson R22
- Defining event
- Enroute: Emergency descent initiated
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 202096
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Emergency descent initiatedAll aircraft: 42 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- VH-HFQ
- Reported as
- Robinson R22
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engine
- Lycoming, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- Unknown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Unknown
- Equipment
- Unknown