Steve
En-Route
As one observer put it....crap...
http://www.livevideo.com/video/Fair...1C46CB1292B/helicopter-flies-into-hangar.aspx
http://www.livevideo.com/video/Fair...1C46CB1292B/helicopter-flies-into-hangar.aspx
As one observer put it....crap...
http://www.livevideo.com/video/Fair...1C46CB1292B/helicopter-flies-into-hangar.aspx
Waste of a perfectly good R44. The whole video can be found at:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CDnB66kGfhE
The main rotor blade chopped the tail boom off...
Isn't that the one of the guy who had an ASEL, and was on his first lesson in the helo, was told by the instructor not to touch ANYTHING, and then decided to take off on his own?
Isn't that the one of the guy who had an ASEL, and was on his first lesson in the helo, was told by the instructor not to touch ANYTHING, and then decided to take off on his own?
Nupe, this one is of a family going on a heli ride, and stupid Chief Pilot Charlie didn't make sure he had clearance from the hangar. Charlie claims the kid beside him nudged the cyclic and he couldn't fix the drift before they hit the hangar.
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20040825X01288&key=1
There's the NTSB report.
Isn't that the one of the guy who had an ASEL, and was on his first lesson in the helo, was told by the instructor not to touch ANYTHING, and then decided to take off on his own?