R44 crashes and burns

[G-CPTN]

An inexperienced pilot used the wrong technique to land a helicopter, which crashed and burst into flames with two passengers on board, investigators say.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4715528.stm

[flash8]

An inexperienced pilot used the wrong technique to land a helicopter, which crashed and burst into flames with two passengers on board, investigators say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4715528.stm

and they all survived unhurt... damned lucky...

[Whirlybird]

The trouble is, a hotel can have a landing site, but that doesn't mean that landing there is easy, or even possible. I know of at least a couple of hotels that I wouldn't consider landing at.

Anyway, at least they were all OK.

[Hilico]

That would be this report from the AAIB, published February 2005:

http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/sites/aaib/publications/bulletins/february_2006/robinson_r44_raven_ii__g_cdey.cfm