Originally Posted by
capngrog
That explanation makes a lot of sense. It is quite possible that the gator, being in heat, mistook a pontoon for a scaly, saurian lust object, misjudged his approach, entered "whirl mode" and wound up getting shot at for his efforts. The errant shot went wide and struck some sort of vital tail rotor drive bit, and things went down hill from that point on.
Other than the gator's wounded pride at his misdirected lust, there were no reported injuries.
Cheers,
Grogt
,...or maybe upon seeing the gator making love to his pontoon freaked the pilot out, causing him to jerk the throttle wide open, which led to an overspeed,...then "bang", tail falls off!
