Oddest Forced Landing Site?
This must surely rate as the oddest forced landing site ever for a helicopter - unless you know better....?
On 21 February 1950, whilst flying in Ireland, Royal Navy Sikorsky Hoverfly FT837 suffered a "seized tail rotor". A forced landing was carried out in an open grave in St. Mary's Collegiate churchyard, Youghal, County Cork. Although the helicopter was a write-off it was not the pilot's final resting place as he and his crew were uninjured!
A photo of the crashed aircraft was taken by Mikey Roche at the time and was shown in his photo exhibition in Youghal last year but I have not been able to locate this photo online anywhere.