Indian JetRanger cartwheels
Theres a video elsewhere in the media with actual sound of the event, the engine tone and (just after it) decaying rotor notes are clearly audible..... Let the DGCA report be the final word on the cause though.
Reminds one that when it goes all egg shaped....it does so rapidly!
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Yes - what a world. A woman walks down a road in London and gets killed by a window frame while a Jet Ranger full of pax ploughs into the ground in Gujarat and they all walk out and go for a curry!
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Yes, if You watch the slow motion, zoomed in You will see the Main Rotor Blade slice neatly twice through the boom then depart the mast, intact, both blades attached via the head & start flinging towards the cameraman 
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and they all walk out and go for a curry
Very hard to tell with camera flicker speed etc, but is the RRPM a real problem, or lack of it I should say?
Funny how they fall and are totally uncontrollable when they run out of curry, honey
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was it an autorotation or just a bad landing
Not a heli driver, but the landing area was confined, and not a smooth surface, so the question I asl, is: was it an autorotation or was it a just a run on landing that should have been a hover to stationary landing.
They were very lucky...no fire, any fuel on board.???
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They were very lucky...no fire, any fuel on board.???
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As they say in India the pilots are ex Indian Air Force Wing Commanders who come from a very very good family which means it can't be pilot error!! Definitely they should be buying a lottery ticket!
