Snaggletooth
I remember filming a similar incident some years for a popular TV series here in the UK called "999 rescue" which has remarkable simmularities to the one just reported, it also involved a seaking which had just lowered a doctor down onto a outcrop to a injured climber when it then made blade contact with the adjacent cliff wall, with rock fragments hitting the pilot and cutting his forehead, and to compound thier problems even more as the pilot (now restleing with a badly vibrating helicopter) rolled and dived the a/c away from the cliff face, the doctor on the winch bacame entangled around the tail wheel of the a/c. and as the crew had nowhere to go but into a clearing below and with only seconds to spare it was decided to pickle off the doctor in what would have been a high flare just prior to landing and then "land" just beyond! all this cool thinking whilst flying what must have been something feeling like a pneumatic breaker in a caravan. Thankfully thier (and the medics) luck began to change for the better, and as the crew began the flare the wire untangled from the tail wheel and the medic was winched onboard before the a/c landed.
The crew and a/c were after repaires and I suspect a few whiskies returned to service and I hope are still doing a great job
