Originally Posted by
Dave Gittins
A moot point if they had already clobbered a floodlighting pole ... but it doesn't look the safest or the best design for the door if it opens right into the rotor disc.
The standard doors on the AS350/355, EC130, EC120 will all do that IF disconnected from the gas spring while rotors turn in its normal path. This Gazelle’s rotor might not have done, after the impact with the pole.