Twelve passengers and two crew were on board when instruments that guide the pilots through clouds stopped working and two of the four tail rotor blades were lost.
Two Helijet pilots safely descended through 3000-feet of cloud without instruments Tuesday morning after their Sikorsky helicopter was struck by lightning over Haro Strait.
The helicopter, with 12 passengers and two crew, was on its scheduled flight between Vancouver and Victoria. Although the instruments went black, the pilots were still able to communicate with the control tower. They sent out an urgent Pan-Pan-Pan signal to let the control tower know they needed clear lines of communication while they assessed the situation, Sitnam explained.
Further investigation of the aircraft revealed that the helicopter lost two of four tail rotor blades when it was struck by lightning, he said.
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