To all the naysayers.....It is 100% true....I saw the results with my own eyes....the aircraft is in Heliflites maintenance hangar....the aircraft has been inspected and the result is either back to Franks for major heart surgery OR written off (probably the latter!) The pilots were a newbe instructor and owner on board...and yes, it was flown back to base from the incident site.
Evod, just to put YOU straight - with a blade strike, the blades very seldom are stopped (as in this case evidently) but the damage was significant as one could well imagine. The boom over 50% severed, severe buckling about the boom attachment point and the rear firewall seriously dsitorted!
I personally wouldn't have started it up again let alone fly it home over the back suburbs of Sydney! and sorry; I don't have any pics but no doubt the team at Heliflite does!