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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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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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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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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Looks like a particularly catastrophic crash - not much left of the aircraft.
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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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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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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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>> 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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>> 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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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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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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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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Helicopter crash - R.P.
