Heli crash Mt Buller
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Heli crash Mt Buller
No word on type of heli or operator as yet...
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FOUR people have escaped unharmed after a helicopter crash at Mount Buller.
Victoria Police are on scene and said one passenger was being treated for minor injuries.
Emergency services were called to the scene on Summit Rd at 2.26pm after the helicopter crashed into the side of a hill.
Investigators from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau are en route.
A Victoria Ambulance spokesperson said the helicopter was upside down.
He said all the passengers had escaped the wreckage before paramedics were on the scene.
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FOUR people have escaped unharmed after a helicopter crash at Mount Buller.
Victoria Police are on scene and said one passenger was being treated for minor injuries.
Emergency services were called to the scene on Summit Rd at 2.26pm after the helicopter crashed into the side of a hill.
Investigators from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau are en route.
A Victoria Ambulance spokesperson said the helicopter was upside down.
He said all the passengers had escaped the wreckage before paramedics were on the scene.
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The news said that the 4 were on a joy flight from Tasmania... some joy flight! (in terms of distance)
A very warm day today in Melbourne, pushing over 30 degrees. Quite a high spot the old Mt. Buller..... just sayin'....
A very warm day today in Melbourne, pushing over 30 degrees. Quite a high spot the old Mt. Buller..... just sayin'....
Squeaks, you are spot on in my opinion. "Short of the helipad"....now let's see
The ATSB wouldn't have to leave their office to wrap this one up!
I am not sure who deserves the Darwin Award more, the pilot or the dumbos who got on board.
The ATSB wouldn't have to leave their office to wrap this one up!
I am not sure who deserves the Darwin Award more, the pilot or the dumbos who got on board.
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Mr Garwood said he was mystified about what caused the crash. The helicopter passed its annual flight review on Tuesday.
"There was no wind, I really don't know what happened," said the excavator and earthmoving contractor.
"There was no wind, I really don't know what happened," said the excavator and earthmoving contractor.
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I liked this one better:
...and where exactly do they teach this particular crash-landing procedure where you roll down a bank onto the right side? Ah, the media... 
He rolled the helicopter down a bank on its right side in a spectacular crash-landing procedure designed to protect passengers.
The Explanation could be pulled from the thin air.....if he thought about it!
The reporter missed the bit about "the hero pilot wrestled with the controls as it plummeted towards a school, but he guided it away and crashed in a safer place."
Targa driver's escape injury in chopper crash
Tasmanian Targa driver survives chopper crash but 'running out of lives'
Photo: Greg Garwood (l) says everyone was lucky to walk away from the crash. (ABC News)
A Tasmanian Targa driver who walked away from a helicopter crash in Victoria says he feels like he is "running out of lives."
A helicopter carrying four people struck trouble on its way to Mount Buller to compete in the Targa High Country competition.
Well-known Tasmanian Targa driver Greg Garwood was at the controls when it crashed and slid down a hill while landing.
His wife Luana, another Tasmanian driver and a Queensland mechanic were all uninjured.
Mr Garwood says he does not know what happened.
"Anyone who can walk away from a helicopter crash is very lucky," he said.
"We were just coming in for a final landing where we had probably landed 20 times before last year and I don't know if we got wind shear or whatever.
"We put it on the ground and it just wouldn't sit there and I just rolled it to the right which is the appropriate thing to do in those circumstances and it just slid down the bank and we got out of her which was great."
Mr Garwood is yet to decide if he will take part in the Victorian competition which starts tomorrow.
"It's a reality check that sometimes we live dangerously and motorsports certainly a dangerous sport, I'm nearly running out of lives I reckon."
"I've just got to sit back and have a bit of a think about things I think."
Photo: Greg Garwood (l) says everyone was lucky to walk away from the crash. (ABC News) A Tasmanian Targa driver who walked away from a helicopter crash in Victoria says he feels like he is "running out of lives."
A helicopter carrying four people struck trouble on its way to Mount Buller to compete in the Targa High Country competition.
Well-known Tasmanian Targa driver Greg Garwood was at the controls when it crashed and slid down a hill while landing.
His wife Luana, another Tasmanian driver and a Queensland mechanic were all uninjured.
Mr Garwood says he does not know what happened.
"Anyone who can walk away from a helicopter crash is very lucky," he said.
"We were just coming in for a final landing where we had probably landed 20 times before last year and I don't know if we got wind shear or whatever.
"We put it on the ground and it just wouldn't sit there and I just rolled it to the right which is the appropriate thing to do in those circumstances and it just slid down the bank and we got out of her which was great."
Mr Garwood is yet to decide if he will take part in the Victorian competition which starts tomorrow.
"It's a reality check that sometimes we live dangerously and motorsports certainly a dangerous sport, I'm nearly running out of lives I reckon."
"I've just got to sit back and have a bit of a think about things I think."
On tonights news Greg Garwood today crashed out of the High Country Targa in his 1976 Holden Torana, looked to be down a bank as well.
Not a good week for him
Fly Safe R W
Not a good week for him
Fly Safe R W