Rotorcraft
Former Carson VP Faces Jail for Crash Record Fraud
Federal government charged that Carson executive falsified helicopter performance charts to obtain more than $50 million in Forest Service contracts.

A former Carson Helicopters vice president is facing a federal prison sentence for his role in falsifying helicopter performance charts. The fraud was discovered during a National Transportation Safety Board investigation of the crash of a company Sikorsky S-61N that killed nine and injured four in 2008, while on a firefighting mission in California.