Mi 26 T/R Strike

[sprocket]

Location: PNG
Cause: Heavy equipment being loaded too far aft.
Note: (a)Four ground crew running from the load ramp area and one crouching behind the forkliftr at RH side of picture.
(b) Piece of tail rotor blade going up (above main rotor.



Thanks to helidrvr for setting up.
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sprocket: .. No standards? Nooo problems!

[This message has been edited by sprocket (edited 03 April 2001).]

[PurplePitot]

Ooooh Errrrr......

[212man]

As Harry Enfield would say "now I don't believe you wanted to do that, you don't want to do it like that, you want to do it like this..."

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Another day in paradise

[Vfrpilotpb]

Whats a few ground crew to the Rooshians, brill picture, I would have taken that from 5 miles away using a electronic auto phocus Cannon oh with a sun filter !

[hoverbover]

As they say

"you can run but you can't hide"!!!!

hoverbover

[Lefthanddown]

Can't see the picture but sounds very interesting!

[sprocket]

Might be problems with the site. I'll check with helidrvr.

[CTD]

Looks good from here.....

[sprocket]

Still can't see the image,

HHmmmm, I’m wondering if the wascally Wussians are blocking the transmissions from helidrvr’s homestead site. “Iss not gut da?”

Hopefully normal transmission will resume soon.

Vfrpilot, I don’t think anybody was hurt in that incident (maybe afterwards in the bosses’ office).
I was told that the tailboom had to be replaced, because it hit the ground fairly hard. I’m not sure how the Mi 26 is constructed but it sounded feasible to me.


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sprocket: .. No standards? Nooo problems!

[Rotorbike]

Picture sure looks good to me.

Looks like you need to get a new internet service provider.

[The angry palm tree]

Sprocket

Do you mind if I use the picture on my fellow students? I have to give a lecture on importance of weight and balance (see weight and balance incidents)

Oh the joys of a university aviation course!

[sprocket]

The angry palm tree, you have mail.

[John Eacott]

Just talking about this incident to our Ch.Eng., who was there, and one of my pilots, who has just left PNG. Apparently it was 3 months before the repairs were completed, and the MGB had to be long lined in by Chinook, since there was no 8-9 tonne crane available to do the job