Blue Mountains NSW crash Oct 9 2010 9am

[Nigel Osborn]

I find this accident report very strange. I can't see a 206 having the stick pulled back to climb at 85 kts, would have the rear of the skids dig into the water so hard that the 206 tumbled over. Now maybe if the tail rotor had gone hard into the water, that would cause a problem. I wonder where they got the speed & height facts from, the pax?

[Ascend Charlie]

From speaking to the kid involved, and flying him back to the scene of the accident, I gathered that the kid had been flying at the time, but changed the story. Byron went out through the front window, the cyclic tore out his boy-bits and bleeding badly was one reason he didn't survive.
yes, the water was glassy, yes, they were too low. Suspect that the "rotate to climb away" was horsefeathers.

[helispotter]

This thread doesn't seem to have ever listed or discussed the ATSB report into this accident, which was completed in December 2011. I can't post a web link directly on the forum, but that accident investigation was A0-2010-076 and related to the Collision with terrain of Eurocopter AS350B VH-ROU 67km west of Sydney Airport on 10 October 2010 (as opposed to 9 October 2010 heading used to start this thread by WG99).

https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications...r/ao-2010-076/

As I am not a pilot, let alone a helicopter pilot, I should probably remain quiet other than to encourage line pilots read this report.

[Ascend Charlie]

Yeah, the report calls it collision with terrain, but doesn't really include the title "pilot flew into IMC and lost control and (then) collided with terrain." One of 3 incidents from this operator in a short span of time, one of them in similar circumstances which was fatal.