According to U.S. military training documents, the Bell 212 was developed for the Canadian military in the late 1960s and first used by Canada and the U.S. in 1971.

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Six others also died. The aircraft was identified as a 40-year-old U.S.-built Bell 212 model, according to Reuters. Iran media said the cause was a technical failure, the New York Times reported.

Following the crash, the Financial Times, quoting a study by Cirium, said the 1960s-era Bell 212 might have been acquired by the Iranian Air Force in 1994, based on its serial number C-9207. It is ...

The Bell 212 family includes four variants—the Pratt & Whitney PT6T-3B Twin-Pac powered Bell 212, 212 IAF, 212HP, and the single-engine 212S that is powered by a Honeywell T53-17 A/B.

Transport Canada says the failed pin had only accumulated 20h of service. Inspection of another Bell 212, it says, found another main rotor strap pin to be “deformed” after just 29h.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday issued an emergency directive requiring main rotor inspections for some Bell model 212, 204 and 205 helicopters after a fatal crash in ...