MD600 Driver
I found this link on the MD600 accident on another discussion site, but it is already a dead link
http://www.sud.france3.fr/semiStatic...IL-325955.html
I then found another report in French, which I put through the mangle (
www.FreeTranslation.com) which produced this version, rather garbled, but notably the "rear part of the device" was 100m away from the fuselage.
A private helicopter crushed itself Friday afternoon between Castrate and Mazamet (Tarn), provoking the death of the three taking care of the device, one has learn with the firemen of the Tarn. L' device fell towards 15h45 in a field on the commune of Noailhac, in edge of a regional road, one has specified same source.Les helps rediscovered the rear party of the device to about one hundred meters. The vehicle could have fallen following the loss of the rear rotor, but the causes of the accident again were not known in fine afternoon, according to the prefecture of the Tarn. La turn check of Castrate mazamet did not dispose any flight plan indicating the identity and the destination of l' device. according to the first elements of the french police force investigation, the device, a small helicopter. The three persons that were located on board again definitely were not identified, pointed out someone Friday evening to the floor of Castres.Le floor of Castrate had to organize a press conference Saturday morning.
Finally, this particular MD600 had been in France for a few weeks, having visited the big helicopter event at Dax on 16th May - see photos of it there at
http://heliweb.net.free.fr/SV_MD600.htm