DOVES wrote:
I am going to put them on my file "Superb Airmanship"!
Stilton wrote:
Great job by the crew.
Can you please enlighten me why it is great and/or superb to collide at FL120 in severe CAVOK conditions with a slow moving helicopter?
And special flying skills are not really necessary to bring home an aircraft with half the vertical stabilizer as long as both engines are running.
I guess the pilots were quite amazed by the extension of the damage after they had landed!
BTW - I doubt the fin has been clipped by the rotor blades. The Mil Mi 17 is quite massive, so it would have collided with the Airbusī wing before sending its rotor blades into the fin. I guess the vertical stabilizer was rather colliding with the fuselage of the chopper.