Both lose when cow moose collides with helicopter

[alaskaflyer]

Doh!

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/v-printer/story/8686042p-8583085c.html

A routine flight to tag a cow moose took a bizarre turn this weekend when the tranquilized animal charged the tail section of a hovering helicopter, collided with the rear rotor and brought down the aircraft.

 

[JasonCT]

Neither the pilot nor biologist Kevin White, who was aboard the helicopter, was injured. But Larsen said the moose was hurt badly enough -- its snout collided with the chopper's tail rotor -- that it had to be put down by White. Biologists typically use a lethal injection to euthanize moose, Larsen said.

"It was really beyond help at that point," Larsen said. "When it hit its nose, it basically chopped off the end of its nose. It was really severely injured."



OMG What a sight that must have been!

 

[gkainz]

My grand dad used to tell stories of the north woods in MN where the bull moose in the rut would get on the railroad tracks and take on a locomotive head on. The moose would not survive, but the trains were usually damaged as well.

 

[Dave Krall CFII]

It sounds like about 10 feet of altitude control between a safe, routine flight compared to the scenario of pilot error downing both a 369D Huges and the moose.

 

[N50909]

<shakes head>

What a way to go. Some jackhole slices of your nose with his chopper blades, then another jackhole jabs a needle into you and kills you.

Talk about a bad day.