jetranger crash nsw. photos

[imabell]

a few photos of the jetranger that crashed on approach to an island on the clarence river near yamba, northern nsw.

the main rotor blades don't appear to have been rotating very fast and the vertical impact seems to have broken it nearly in two.


http://www.bluetonguehelicopters.com.au/pprune/rrr1.jpg


http://www.bluetonguehelicopters.com.au/pprune/rrr2.jpg


http://www.bluetonguehelicopters.com.au/pprune/rrr3.jpg

[22clipper]

Visceral things aren't they, pictures of crashed helicopters. Somehow shots like this, were its still recognisable as a chopper, are worse than the ones that resemble a pile of parts that could have been anything.

Sunday Telegraph newspaper made a big thing of a teenage local who clambered in to isolate the electrics. Not a bad effort, if its true, for the uninitiated to find the master in a 206 amongst all those dials & switches?

Any more news on the occupant with the head injuries?

[topendtorque]

Most unusual.
Off side chin panel perspex still seems intact,
cross tubes hardly splayed,
skids wiped off,
perhaps a forward to the left and downard left (nearside) chin / co-pilots door bottom impact???????????

Top (longitudinal) line nearly straight, floor pan twisted clockwise.

perhaps a simple overpitch falling and starting to spin as T'R lost effect.

or:-

Nothing else left out of the photograph that it might have hit??????????????????????? around centre section.

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[David_sammy]

My family is good friends with the passenger that was in the helicopter. He has been improving greatly since the accident but has also suffered many injuries from it. He has broken his lower back and his heel while suffering head injuries aswell but he is on the road to recovery.
thanks for posting the photo's on here!!!

[wallysworld]

Does anybody know what caused this? The word is a bird strike on the tail rotor