Special helicopter service

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HSD Luftrettung non-profit GmbH
legal form GmbH & Co.
founding 1985
resolution 2015
Reason for dissolution Merger with parent company
Seat Goettingen , Germany
management Executive Director:
  • Hans Jörg Eyrich
  • Steffen Lutz
Website www.drf-luftrettung.de

The HSD air rescue profit company , shortly HSD air rescue (founded HSD Helicopter Service Special Flight Operations GmbH & Co .; Head Office: Bovenden-Harste) was a German aerospace company based from 2003 in Goettingen . HSD Luftrettung has been a partner in the air rescue alliance of Team DRF since 2000 and a subsidiary of DRF Luftrettung since 2008 . On January 1, 2015, the HSD Luftrettung non-profit GmbH was merged with the DRF Stiftung Luftrettung non-profit AG .

tasks

With intensive care transport helicopters (ITH), the HSD air ambulance involved in the German air rescue and air rescue operation three centers on the Dortmund-Wickede Airport , the airport Hannover-Langenhagen and the airport Halle-Oppin . The former HSD helicopters at the Halle (radio call name of the helicopter "Christoph Sachsen-Anhalt") and Hanover ("Christoph Niedersachsen") are ready for use 24 hours, the ones in Dortmund ("Christoph Dortmund") from 8:00 am to sunset. The non-flying medical crew members deployed on the helicopters are emergency doctors and paramedics; they are provided by the clinics and aid organizations at the respective location.

Companies

The MBB BK 117B-2 D-HDRF at Dortmund Airport

The HSD Luftrettung non-profit GmbH is no longer an independent subsidiary of the DRF Stiftung Luftrettung non-profit company. With the entry in the commercial register of the Stuttgart District Court , the merger into the DRF Foundation Luftrettung non-profit AG is legally completed with retroactive effect from January 1, 2015.

The HSD operated a quality management system for which it was the first helicopter company to be certified in accordance with DIN EN ISO 9002 in 1999 . In 2003 the QM was adapted to the changed standard DIN EN ISO 9001–2000.

fleet

HSD Luftrettung used helicopters of the types EC 145 and MBB / Kawasaki BK 117 for the rescue service and intensive care transport . With three stations, HSD Luftrettung was a smaller provider in rescue flight operations with helicopters in Germany.

Incidents

In the course of the flight operations development of the HSD, there were three flight accidents.

  • The Bell 222, which portrayed the Airwolf helicopter in the TV series of the same name, was taken over by HSD after its dismantling and flew under the registration number D-HHSD. However, it crashed on June 6, 1992 after a rescue mission on the return flight to Berlin during a storm, killing three people.
  • On December 8, 1995 a Bell 222 crashed on a flight to the stationing location Schönhagen near Ahrensdorf; the three inmates were killed.
  • The most recent accident occurred in Hanover on March 11, 2005, when the McDonnell Douglas MD900 deployed there got out of control during takeoff and overturned.

See also

Other operators of intensive care transport helicopters in Germany are (as of 07/2015):

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the aviation companies approved by the Federal Aviation Office. (PDF; 17 kB) (No longer available online.) Luftfahrt-Bundesamt, May 5, 2010, p. 5 , archived from the original on June 11, 2011 ; accessed on June 2, 2010 (as of March 2010).
  2. ↑ Göttingen Commercial Register, HRA 3378, Register portal https://www.handelsregister.de
  3. ↑ Christoph Sachsen-Anhalt & Christoph Halle, Station Halle , website of DRF Luftrettung, accessed on July 9, 2015
  4. ↑ Christoph Niedersachsen, Station Hannover , website of DRF Luftrettung, accessed on July 9, 2015
  5. ↑ Christoph Dortmund, Dortmund Station , DRF Luftrettung website, accessed on July 9, 2015
  6. ↑ Subsidiary HSD Luftrettung non-profit GmbH integrated into DRF Foundation Luftrettung non-profit AG , website of DRF Luftrettung, accessed on July 9, 2015
  7. ↑ Casualties. helionline.net, accessed on June 2, 2010 (entry 1992).
  8. ↑ Helicopter crashed: three dead. Berliner Zeitung, December 11, 1995, accessed on June 2, 2010 .
  9. ↑ Germany- wide innovations through the HSD. (PDF) Federal Aircraft Accident Investigation Office, May 10, 2005, p. 19 , accessed on June 2, 2010 (see page 8).

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