Salty
Touchdown! Greaser!
keep your head down.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wf...ksville-tampa-bay-regional-airport/1696302135
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wf...ksville-tampa-bay-regional-airport/1696302135
Always. And always enter/depart the rotor disc 45 to 90 degrees from centerline.keep your head down.
But there definitely is more to this than reported. Pics of the rotor blade damage are beyond what was reported. These blades are rather stout and can probably cut trees similar to stories mentioned in another thread.
An ATP with several type ratings, a CFI ... gotta wonder if perhaps someone in the cockpit messed with something.Deceased person was pilot. Got out to unplug cart.
That's what I heard and was also driving tug/cart out from rotor disc straight out from nose. I hope that is not true.Blades also hit cart.
Pilot side forward of chinbubble.Where does the cart plug into the helicopter
Doubtful. Aircraft is rather heavy and plug would have ripped out of aircraft first. It's my understanding the cart/tug was parked perpendicular to aircraft in front and outside rotor disc before event.Power cable still connected? Pulling straight forward tilted the whole bird?