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Man dies in ultralight chopper crash
Wednesday Mar 29 17:54 AEDT
A father tried in vain to pull his son from the burning wreckage of a home-built helicopter after it crashed in Victoria.
The pilot, aged in his early 30s, was incinerated in the wreckage of his two-seater RotorWay kit helicopter shortly before 11am.
It had crashed upside down in a paddock at Tawonga South, near Mount Beauty, 350 km north-east of Melbourne.
The pilot's father was a member of a Country Fire Authority crew called to the crash site, and was first on the scene.
Senior Sergeant Doug Incoll of Bright police said the dead man could not yet be formally identified but was well known to locals.
"He's a local male from a family that has been well entrenched with the community for some time," Sen-Sgt Incoll told AAP.
"His father was first on the scene. He's shattered, obviously.
"He tried to drag him out but he couldn't because of the fire. He's just shattered.
"It's a small community. It will affect everyone and it will do for some time."
The machine plunged to earth and came to rest upside down in a blackberry thicket surrounded by trees beside the Kiewa River, about 1.5 km from the Mount Beauty airstrip.
"It looks like he may have been doing a manoeuvre called an auto-rotation, which is an unpowered decline," said Sen-Sgt Incoll.
"Some debris was seen falling from the helicopter but we're not able to identify the cause of the crash until it's investigated."
It's believed the man was the sole occupant of the helicopter, but because of the fire and wreckage, emergency crews could not be certain, he said.
CFA regional operations manager Graeme Armstrong said it was a difficult scene for Mount Beauty and Tawonga fire crews to confront.
"From my perspective I was very pleased with the fire fight and the scene preservation done by the fire brigades," Mr Armstrong said.
"They did a very good job keeping the disturbance of the scene to a minimum and really limiting the number of (their) people exposed to the scene."
RotorWay International claims to the world's oldest and largest kit helicopter manufacturer, with it origins in the 1960s.
The Arizona-based company is wholly owned by its employees and has sold helicopter kits in 50 countries.
The coroner was to visit the crash scene.
İAAP 2006
Very sad indeed. Condolences to the family. May he Rest In Peace.