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Old 13th June 2006 | 20:51
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cpt
 
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From: 1500' AMSL
I have had a good one....
On take off from an African seismic camp, at a few feet height, with 4 passengers, right engine of my AS 355 exploded....pieces of exploded turbine went through the firewall and killed the other engine.... The take-off path was towards a lake, near JETA fuel storage bladders and closed to other parked helicopters.
I just heard an unsual "pouf" and realised I was going down, I only tried to cushion the forced landing, but without engine at all, RPM decreasing quickly, I lost yaw efficiency, nose went right and pitched down....A tough landing resulted with a broken right skid. Before we could do anything ( rotor brake requiring the 2 FFCL fully back, to be pulled ) one of the panicking passenger, went out and ran upslope, just to be stopped by witnesses warnings, a few inches before the still spinning blades at his head level !
Because auto reignition a fire initiated trough torn engines and cowlings...!
Dramatic enough ?
Because we had others S355 available, all of us boarded another one, right away, not yet realising, as if nothing ever had happened.
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