The team investigating this month’s deadly Apache helicopter crash submitted an interim report to the head of the Israeli Air Force yesterday, the army says.
The colonel-led commission found that, as initially suspected, the helicopter suffered a steering malfunction, which necessitated an emergency landing on an air force base.
As the attack helicopter came in for a landing, it crashed. The aircraft’s pilot Maj. (res.) David “Dudu” Zohar was killed, and the co-pilot, Lt. On, was seriously injured.
The interim report found no connection between the crash and a crack in a rear rotor blade that was discovered on an Apache helicopter in June and forced the air force to ground the entire fleet for three weeks, the army says.
In light of the report, IAF chief Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin decided to keep the Apache helicopter fleet grounded until the full investigation “is completed and all the actions required to return them to full fitness are carried out,” the army says.
— Judah Ari Gross
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