Vienna - A helicopter belonging to an accident-prone Austrian firm seriously damaged a house Wednesday when timber it was carrying slung to a cable dropped around 80 metres.
The helicopter was transporting nearly a ton of timber in Tyrol province when the cable broke, Austrian media reported.
No one was injured when the timber tore a five-metre hole into the roof in the town of Imst.
'My wife and two daughter were in the house,' said Georg Scheiring, who lives in the building with his family. 'You start to tremble when you think what could have happened,' he told Austrian broadcaster ORF.
In 2005, a helicopter also owned by air transport entrepreneur Roy Knaus was involved in an accident that killed nine Germans, including six children.
On that occasion, the helicopter lost a concrete container which fell on two cable cars.
Two helicopters operated by Knaus's firm crashed in 2004, killing a woman who was being transported to a hospital and a pilot in separate accidents.
Company founder Johann Knaus died in his second helicopter crash in 1997.
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