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Sun 24 Oct 10 17:30

Helicopter crash - Zero

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11615219

The chopper is based at Redhill. I hope helicopter is not involved, he will certainly know the pilot.

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Sun 24 Oct 10 17:36

Helicopter crash - R.P.

Not checked the link you provided but it seems it was an Augusta - quite a large one for a "private" aircraft.

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Sun 24 Oct 10 17:49

Helicopter crash - R.P.

Sorry Z that information was in the page - recently updated

Some more info here.

registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=2NR

Last edited by: Pugugly on Sun 24 Oct 10 at 17:51

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Sun 24 Oct 10 19:01

Helicopter crash - Bromptonaut

Jeez my old plane spotter's antennae must be failing. It was only Z's post mentioning Redhill that made me twig the company repto works for.

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Sun 24 Oct 10 20:16

Helicopter crash - R.P.

Zero,
You have mail.

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Sun 24 Oct 10 22:12

Helicopter crash - R.P.

Looks like a particularly catastrophic crash - not much left of the aircraft.

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Mon 25 Oct 10 06:40

Helicopter crash - helicopter

Well thank you for your concerns all but you do not get rid of me that easily.....

I am posting this from my Head Office in the Middle East where I have been offline for the last few days.,,,I have flown from Redhill but do not know the particular helicopter or pilot. I will check with our other pilots here .

I had not seen this report so I was not aware of the crash until I read about it here but any incident of this nature is very sad .....my condolences to the families of all those lost..

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Mon 25 Oct 10 09:14

Helicopter crash - R.P.

Thank goodness for that - you had us worried. Sad loss to people concerned all the same. Flying like motorcycling carries disproportional risk and you always think that "it" will happen to somebody else...

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Mon 25 Oct 10 09:37

Helicopter crash - Zero

I recently flew into, and landed in the bottom of the southern section of the Grand Canyon in this.

www.flickr.com/photos/mpatston/4652905805/

N151GC, A Eurocopter EC130 B4.

Whilst huge fun, Helicopters are basically scary things. I don't buy all this crap about "Oh engine failure is no issue, we can auto rotate to a safe landing" Somehow the pilots never really look convinced when they trot that one out.

Birds have wings, nature never made an animal with a rotary wing.

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Mon 25 Oct 10 10:37

Helicopter crash - Old Navy

>> Birds have wings, nature never made an animal with a rotary wing.
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My condolences to the families of those lost.

I tend to agree, I always felt more comfortable with a military trained pilot. Probably just me, most of my helicopter use has been with them even in civil helicopters. (A mechanical failure doesn't care who is driving). I did the Grand Canyon helicopter thing but found this more comfortable, and interesting having driven through Monument valley.

www.grandcanyonairlines.com/gca/show_package.aspx?package_id=328&lang=en-US

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Mon 25 Oct 10 10:58

Helicopter crash - Focusless

>> I recently flew into, and landed in the bottom of the southern section of the
>> Grand Canyon in this.

SWMBO wanted to do the Grand Canyon in a chopper during our States holiday earlier this year, but they scare me and I was glad when it turned out to be too expensive. Instead we had a very nice walk along the rim.

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Mon 25 Oct 10 11:04

Helicopter crash - R.P.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcXm-M_oo6c

Mrs P and I were the sole passengers on a return flight daylight from Gozo in 2001 - sounded like a tinful of spanners but I'm sure perfectly safe and reliable !

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Mon 25 Oct 10 11:09

Helicopter crash - Fursty Ferret

Flying the other day with an ex-military helicopter pilot; his opinion was that helicopters have so many unpleasant "gotchas" that they're worth staying well away from unless a very experienced pilot is at the controls.

And this complaint about "gotchas" is from someone who now flies an Airbus...

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Mon 25 Oct 10 11:12

Helicopter crash - Old Navy

When we did this one it was in a smaller helicopter than this one, I am convinced it had a motorbike engine. Turbulence over the canyon as well, scary.

www.kingscanyonresort.com.au/play/helicopterTours-en.html

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