Helicopter Main Rotor Blade Failure Investigation Report

A 2022 investigation report details a main rotor blade failure on an unregistered amateur-built helicopter in Lefebvre, Quebec. The document is a single safety investigation report (A22Q0142) produced by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. It was published following the incident on 29 November 2022.

Use Cases

• Analyze narrative text for common failure modes in amateur-built helicopters like the RotorWay Exec.
• Extract entities such as location (Lefebvre, Quebec), aircraft type, and date (29 November 2022) for incident cataloging.
• Study the described sequence of events ('main rotor blade failure in flight') for causal factor modeling in safety systems.

Strengths

• Report provides a detailed, official account from a national transportation safety authority (Transportation Safety Board of Canada).
• Includes specific temporal (29 November 2022) and geographic (Lefebvre, Quebec) context for the incident.

Limitations

• Dataset consists of a single investigation report, offering no statistical sample size for analysis.
• Data is presented in an HTML narrative format, requiring text processing to structure information for quantitative use.

Provenance

Source

Transportation Safety Board of Canada

Collection Method

Official safety investigation following an aviation incident.

Time Range

Incident date: 29 November 2022.

Freshness

Report metadata was last updated on 8 March 2026.

Geography

Lefebvre, Quebec, Canada.