Steve Kux's 500D prang in 97
Hello all,
I happened to come across "Destroyed in Seconds" on the Discovery Channel last night - which showed Steve Kux's H500D crash back in 1997.
You may have seen it, he's working on some sort of construction contract in Hawaii with a local named Tiny. Steve Kux is the pilot from Magnum PI, amongst other things.
He seems to get into some sort of control issue and comes into land - all caught on camera. Then suddenly about 5' off the ground, in what looks like a stable hover the aircraft rolls over and aft, ending up in a ditch. Tiny manages to lift the aircraft to help free Steve.
The show went onto say that the NTSB reported that "tiny flakes of metal" had interfered with the controls, but elsewhere on the Internet it's reported as "pilot error."
So I'm wondering if anyone knows the tail number or has a link to the NTSB report as I'd like to know what causes such an extreme movement from a hover.
Thanks in adv.
Mungs..