ヘリ運航会社を捜索　業務上過失致死傷容疑、３人死亡事故―海保・壱岐沖

　長崎県・壱岐島沖で起きた患者搬送ヘリコプター３人死亡事故で、唐津海上保安部は９日、業務上過失致死傷容疑などで、ヘリを運航していたエス・ジー・シー佐賀航空（佐賀市）を家宅捜索した。ヘリの点検記録などを押収し、事故原因を調べる。
　同日午前、同社の委託を受けたサルベージ会社が事故機の引き上げ作業を開始。海保は機体についても捜査を進める。
　海保などによると、ヘリは６日午後１時半に対馬空港を離陸し、同２時１５分に福岡市の病院に到着予定だったが、離陸の約１０分後には運航会社が機体の位置を把握できなくなったという。機体は壱岐島沖で見つかり、搭乗していた６人のうち女性患者（８６）や男性医師（３４）ら３人が死亡した。（2025/04/09-10:55）

The Japan Coast Guard on Wednesday raided SGC Saga Aviation Co., the operator of an ambulance helicopter that crashed off Iki Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Sunday, killing three people.
   The raid on the aircraft operator based in Saga Prefecture, also in southwestern Japan, was conducted by the Karatsu Coast Guard Office in the same prefecture on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death and injury, to seize the helicopter's inspection records and investigate the cause of the accident.
   A marine salvage company commissioned by SGC Saga Aviation began work Wednesday morning to lift the crashed aircraft out of the sea. The JCG is set to investigate the helicopter body as well.
   According to the JCG and others, the helicopter departed Tsushima Airport in Nagasaki at 1:30 p.m. Sunday and was scheduled to arrive at a hospital in the southwestern prefecture of Fukuoka at 2:15 p.m. that day. However, the helicopter operator lost track of the aircraft's location about 10 minutes after departure.
   The helicopter was later found off the coast of Iki Island, and three of the six people onboard died, including an 86-year-old female patient and a 34-year-old male doctor.