Crashing in Russia
I was in a helicopter crash on the Kola peninsular some years ago, eventually got back to flying after 7 months off sick.
It seemed to me, with a grand total of 2 hours flying helos, that we had a vortex ring encounter at about 100 ft on the approach in a MN2
The Russian investigator said ring vortex was not a Russian problem and the official account published in Flight Int had no similarity to our crash
On the pluss side the helo was very solidly built and survived cartwheeling down the strip intact which saved us all
Last edited by Tinribs; 17th Oct 2012 at 09:19.