Originally Posted by
helonorth
The lesson you SHOULD have learned is at minimum you need to brief the passengers (I doubt you did or you would have mentioned it) and (if possible) have an escort or shut down. You should have learned not to trust passengers around a helicopter long before this. This one is on you.
I don’t read
gsa ’s post that it was his pax; he would seem to have landed to drop them off and others were going under the (fenestron) Gazelle which has a low tail boom to get to the ferry, before he had opened the door for the pax.
This thread has gone in circles from shock/horror that a mature age Rotorhead should make light of a fatality, through somewhat extreme interpretations of what may have happened, to discussions on helicopter modifications to prevent people being hurt. Interesting reading but the element of ‘I’m right and you’re wrong’ is disappointing in a forum which is expected to be populated by those with a degree of knowledge about helicopters.