U.S. helicopter maker settles with families of 6 Canadian military members killed in crash

U.S. helicopter maker settles with families of 6 Canadian military members killed in crash

An American helicopter manufacturer has reached a confidential settlement with the families of six Canadian military members killed in a helicopter crash off the coast of Greece five years ago.

Sikorsky Settles Suit Over Military Helicopter Crash

Sikorsky has settled a lawsuit brought by the families of six Canadian Armed Forces members who died when the CH-148 Cyclone helicopter (based on the S-92) they were in dove into the Ionian Sea off Greece in 2020. The crash occurred when the helicopter’s flight control system overrode pilot inputs and pushed the aircraft into an unrecoverable dive at low altitude. The families claimed that the company was grossly negligent in the design of the h…