The families of the six Canadian Armed Forces members who were killed when a Cyclone helicopter crashed off the coast of Greece in April 2020 are suing the manufacturer.
The suit was filed in U.S. Federal Court on July 10 in Pennsylvania, where the Sikorsky CH-148 helicopters were made and tested.
“Reflecting a corporate indifference to safety that placed profits first, the Sikorsky defendants in the face of missed deadlines and financial penalties cut corners to rush the CH-148 into service,” the claim says. 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.” “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.”Sign up for the CHEK Now daily email newsletter to get breaking news and the day's top stories sent to your email.The document notes that under Canadian and U.S.
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