A pilot and passenger, a fairly well known member of a country music duo, Montgomery Gentry are killed in the crash of a Hughes 300 or Schweizer 300. The odd thing is that they declared an emergency with some kind of malfunction and said they were hovering awaiting the arrival of emergency services. Emergency services did arrive just as the machine went down off the end of a runway in the eastern US.
Looking for comments on what kind of malfunction would it have been where the landing was so much worse than hovering that a pilot would choose to wait for emergency crews in a hover.
It seems that eventually it went in right side up, flipped over, and that was it. It looks like there is no rotational damage on the main rotor blades.
Story here, other video on YouTube.