View Full Version : ADAC helicopter incident Thuringia
muermel
14th Feb 2019, 14:12
ADAC EC 135 tilted backwards after accidentally landing on a Skating Rail yesterday. A piece of sheet metal was damaged at the tail rotor. A 2nd helicopter picked up the injured boy who was hit by a car and transported him to a hospital. The hellicopter is apparently still parked at the scene.
Only in German but some pictures.
https://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/zgt/leben/blaulicht/detail/-/specific/Achtjaehriger-im-Saale-Orla-Kreis-schwer-verletzt-Hubschrauber-bleibt-auf-Skate-513936634# (https://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/zgt/leben/blaulicht/detail/-/specific/Achtjaehriger-im-Saale-Orla-Kreis-schwer-verletzt-Hubschrauber-bleibt-auf-Skate-513936634)
skadi
14th Feb 2019, 15:52
A piece of sheet metal was damaged at the tail rotor.
https://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/zgt/leben/blaulicht/detail/-/specific/Achtjaehriger-im-Saale-Orla-Kreis-schwer-verletzt-Hubschrauber-bleibt-auf-Skate-513936634# (https://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/zgt/leben/blaulicht/detail/-/specific/Achtjaehriger-im-Saale-Orla-Kreis-schwer-verletzt-Hubschrauber-bleibt-auf-Skate-513936634)
Not quite right. As you can see on the pics, the bumper had contact to the ground, so just a bit of damaged composite material. Nothing to be worried about.
pics (https://www.otz.de/web/zgt/leben/detail/-/specific/Hubschrauber-bleibt-bei-Rettungseinsatz-in-Neustadt-Orla-an-Stange-haengen-1341377338)
skadi
ShyTorque
14th Feb 2019, 19:02
Haven't they got breakdown cover for that?
ADAC apparently do quite a good service.... :p
jimjim1
14th Feb 2019, 19:17
Oh dear!
From the photos and google translate it seems that the skids got tangled with a "grind rail" in a skate park. Perhaps it just landed on it and was not tangled.
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/632x244/grind_pole_380a28f296d6a8543081a6ad739fad78cf026e9e.jpg
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/632x245/grind_pole2_3cc02979fd30697321b3352a36159fd474ef8af1.jpg
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/237x383/grind_pole3_c8a9412906736b241380d192fdf06fa9e0a104b1.jpg
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&tab=wT&sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thueringer-allgemeine.de%2Fweb%2Fzgt%2Fleben%2Fblaulicht%2Fdetail%2F-%2Fspecific%2FHubschrauber-bleibt-bei-Rettungseinsatz-in-Neustadt-Orla-auf-Skate-Park-haengen-1337377218
Rigga
14th Feb 2019, 20:16
The "Grind Rail" is trapped under the Port Skid
hueyracer
15th Feb 2019, 13:18
That looks like a very "stupid" pilot mistake there....
Phoinix
15th Feb 2019, 17:45
Why stupid? Where you there? It's quite easy to miss a grey rail agains grey asphalt from the air. The smart thing was leaving it there and not pulling it into a rollover.
hueyracer
16th Feb 2019, 07:41
It is stupid because the pilot should have spotted it...or the medic sitting on the left hand seat.......if the pilot would have carried out a proper landing site inspection (high/low recce) before the landing, he would have spotted it....period.
Itīs a stupid mistake.....claiming that he did not flip it over is stupid, too..
Phoinix
16th Feb 2019, 07:48
It is stupid because the pilot should have spotted it...or the medic sitting on the left hand seat.......if the pilot would have carried out a proper landing site inspection (high/low recce) before the landing, he would have spotted it....period.
Itīs a stupid mistake.....claiming that he did not flip it over is stupid, too..
Takes one to know one... ever heard of human performance and limitations? You have a unique character known as macho. Go read...
DroneDog
16th Feb 2019, 15:10
That "Grind rail" would be very difficult to see given its identical in colour to the asphalt, put a few in a car park and open a body repair business nearby.
DOUBLE BOGEY
16th Feb 2019, 16:42
Hueyracer. I am not sure we are allowed to call each other "Stupid" anymore. It should be a "No blame culture".
Its better to call it an "Unfortunate" incident!
fadecdegraded
16th Feb 2019, 18:48
Would have been hard to see in bad lighting or at night , especially if distracted by another hazard close by that the photo didnt show.
If he was actually trying to use the grind rail I think putting the skids across the rail would have worked better.