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Key Safety Risk Areas for Aerial Work
Helicopter
The key risk areas for Aerial Work Helicopter have been taken from the top occurrence categories as provided
in Figure 29. The key risk areas are based on their overall ranking in terms of aggregated accidents and serious
incidents
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Low Altitude Operations (LALT)
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Loss of control – in flight (LOC‑I)
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System Component Failure (SCF)
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Fuel Related Occurrences (FUEL)
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Collisions during take‑off and landing (CTOL)
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Runway excursion/Loss of control - ground (ARC/LOC‑G)
: ARC is often a pre‑cursor to LOC‑G occur‑
rences, therefore for the purpose of considering safety issues they have been combined.
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Controlled flight into terrain (CFIT)
9 For a complete list of CICTT occurrence categories, refer to Appendix 1.