R44 down in Courchevel March 2008

[No Foehn]

A British registered R44 crashed on take-off at Courchevel on Saturday afternoon, according to the local rag. 4 British POB uninjured, except for one passenger taken to hospital for shock. The report says the helicopter caught on protection netting at the side of a ski piste close to the altiport. No skiers hurt. Photos show the blue and white machine, reg starting G-W... on its side and seriously bent.

[Practice Auto 3,2,1]

Any links?

Glad to read everyone is ok though!

[Bravo73]

A British registered R44 <snip> Photos show the blue and white machine, reg starting G-W...


There are 14 R44s with G-W*** registered on G-INFO:

http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=summary&regmark=w***&aircrafttype=r44

Of the 9 aircraft with photos attached, 3 have got blue and white paint schemes: G-WAFU, G-WEGO and G-WMWM. (Of the 5 aircraft without photos, only 1 is still flying: G-WALI.)


HTH

[muffin]

B73

You must have had a long time with nothing else to do at work.

[Bravo73]

:8

It didn't actually take that long...

[No Foehn]

http://www.ledauphine.com/file/ftp/unes/2008/03/16/U73_1-102517671.T-x.0315214418.pdf

The best I can do is this link to the front page.

[g-mady]

any links to page 5?

MADY

[No Foehn]

No links to the main article without a subscription.

Apart from a slightly different photo, there's nothing substantive in the article that isn't summarised in the first post, except a note of the existence of a controversial project to build a four star hotel on the crash site, and speculation as to whether this will be reviewed as a result of the incident.

Come to think of it, that could be the most significant aspect of the whole event.

[Wee Willy Winky]

One thinks this might have been from Aeromega, Cambridge, possibly with DB at the controls.

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[IanHud]

One thinks this might have been from Aeromega, Cambridge, possibly with DB at the controls.

I hope not.

It's the wrong shade of blue for WMWM, well it looks like it anyway.

[kneedwondean]

I'm sure thet DB was planning a trip out to the alps in a R44 around then, school trip to learn about Mountain Flying. I wrote to him and he replied 27th March but did not mention anything.

[cyclic flare]

Is that DB from GB who knows CB??

[hole747]

I was ski-ing in Courchevel at that time and saw G-WMWM from the restaurant at the Altiport on March 14th.