On June 16, 2018, a helicopter of Yunnan Fengxiang General Aviation Company, carrying out a rescue flight mission from the First People's Hospital of Kunming City (Ganmei Hospital) to the People's Hospital of Anning City, crashed in the pass of the old Qingshan Mountain in the Biji Street Office of Bijie Street Office, Xishan District, Kunming City, and all three crew members were killed.
Kunming City and the Civil Aviation Yunnan Supervision Bureau, provincial safety supervision, public security, health and other departments and other joint efforts to grasp the accident investigation and aftermath and other related work.
Earlier, a helicopter went missing in Kunming, Yunnan province, on Saturday, sources from the authorities said.
The helicopter was on a rescue mission, according to the Yunnan provincial government. No other details were immediately available. A search is underway.
The outstanding features of the helicopter are that it can do maneuvering flight at low altitude (several meters above the ground), low speed (from hover) and constant nose direction, and especially can take off and land vertically in a small field. Because of these characteristics make it has a broad use and development prospects. In civil use, it is used in short-distance transportation, medical rescue, disaster relief, emergency rescue, lifting equipment, geological exploration, forest protection and fire fighting, aerial photography, etc. The transportation of personnel and materials between oil wells and bases at sea is an important aspect of civilian use.