Truck crashing into main rotor
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Truck crashing into main rotor
Not as spectacular as it could be - the main rotor was standing still.
Happened yesterday in Austria (Carinthia) when a truck driver, delivering gas bottles, reversed. RK1 [BK 117-C1] needs a new blade now. According to the following news article the damage is 300000-800000 Eur. Could buy a couple of Robinsons instead
Lkw rammte Rettungshubschrauber - kaernten.ORF.at
Happened yesterday in Austria (Carinthia) when a truck driver, delivering gas bottles, reversed. RK1 [BK 117-C1] needs a new blade now. According to the following news article the damage is 300000-800000 Eur. Could buy a couple of Robinsons instead
Lkw rammte Rettungshubschrauber - kaernten.ORF.at
My organisation here in the sandpit had a semi run in its main rotor whilst it was running on the scene of an EMS primary.....still unserviceable a couple of years down the track
NEVER leave a helicopter on a road without someone standing there and watching it.....
46°44'27.11"N 13°39'54.51"E
Last edited by GoodGrief; 16th Feb 2013 at 11:29.
This incident could also have been a lot worse.
A fixed wing taxying into a stationary R44 at Wolverhampton Airport at the fuelling bay a few months ago.
Apparently taxying with misted up windscreen and did not see Helicopter.
A fixed wing taxying into a stationary R44 at Wolverhampton Airport at the fuelling bay a few months ago.
Apparently taxying with misted up windscreen and did not see Helicopter.
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And a similar incident from 2009:
Same type, same company, same cause but this time in Germany on a parking lot. Seems to be much more common than I would have thought...
Polizei Freiburg: Unfall: Lastwagen rammt Helikopter - badische-zeitung.de
Same type, same company, same cause but this time in Germany on a parking lot. Seems to be much more common than I would have thought...
Polizei Freiburg: Unfall: Lastwagen rammt Helikopter - badische-zeitung.de