Columbia Helicopters, which is based in the US but has offices in Peru and Papua New Guinea, confirmed that one of its Model 234 Chinooks crashed on Monday minutes after takeoff from Pucallpa, about 485 miles (780 kilometres) east of Lima, on a flight to Tarapoto in northern Peru.
The heavy-lift helicopter was doing a "ferry flight" for Canada's Talisman Energy at the time, transporting "various types of rigging equipment" in a cargo skid below the aircraft, Todd Petersen, vice president of marketing for Columbia, told Upstream.
