I had a look for the prang i mentioned in prior post...
http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/...200104092.aspx
Here's the wikipedia reference. As always, i don't trust wikicrap though it reads roughly what i remember:
"...Strachan was killed in a helicopter accident on 29 August 2001. He had been a fixed-wing pilot for many years and had been undergoing training for a helicopter pilot's licence, with a view to buying a helicopter and taking friends and family on surfing safaris. On a solo flight near Mount Archer, Queensland in clear weather and inexplicably off the course planned by his instructor, Strachan encountered mountain turbulence which caused the rotor of his Bell 47G to sever the tailboom, crashing the helicopter onto a mountain slope. The day Strachan died was, coincidentally, the day an ABC documentary episode on rock and roll in Australia, It's a long Way to the Top, that referenced the Skyhooks, aired on TV..."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_Strachan
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