Talking about accidents one of the worst I had seen in a training helo was Kelvin Stark and a student in a Bell 47 that had an engine failure over some of the buildings where Marine Helicopters old offices used to be at Ardmore. They landed in a heap about where NZ Warbirds hangar is now. How anyone got out of that mangled wreck amazed me. Unfortunately the Austrian or Swiss student was banged up pretty bad but at least he survived and Kelvin recovered and went on to fly for many more years before being lost at Sea in the PAC 750 that ditched off Hawaii (RIP Kelvin)
Had that been a 300 or R22 I would doubt they would have survived at all. Just testament to the design of the 47.
Last edited by Ned-Air2Air; 5th Mar 2010 at 18:08.