Helicopter Crash Auckland

[speaker]

News just breaking of a helicopter down in Mechanics Bay:

Helicopter crash at Mechanics Bay - Story - NZ News - 3 News (http://www.3news.co.nz/Helicopter-crash-at-Mechanics-Bay/tabid/423/articleID/296831/Default.aspx?ref=breaking)

[James 1077]

Nobody hurt.

Two rescued from helicopter in water - National - NZ Herald News (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10882050)

[tartare]

Bugger.
Prototype of the KC518.
All composite Eurocopter look-alike - domestically designed and built.
Lost power.

[NZScion]

Video of crash now on Stuff.co.nz (http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8641791/Pair-unscathed-after-Auckland-helicopter-crash)...

[Weheka]

Thank Christ the "props" broke off......jesus wept ! :ugh:

[Senior Pilot]

There's a long-running thread on the KC-518 (http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/462151-composite-helicopters-kc518-adventourer.html) on Rotorheads.

Looks like a good bit of kit, stuff happens with engines in development machines :hmm: