R44 Accident Mexico
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R44 forced landing Mexico
Hi all,
Just hearing from a friend that a R44 went down a couple hours ago in Veracruz/ Mexico. No official release yet, it's said the pilot survived, at least for now. Does anyone else have any details??
Regards.
P.S.: title edited.
Just hearing from a friend that a R44 went down a couple hours ago in Veracruz/ Mexico. No official release yet, it's said the pilot survived, at least for now. Does anyone else have any details??
Regards.
P.S.: title edited.
Last edited by Modtro; 4th Jun 2014 at 14:40.
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Looks more like a forced landing than a crash. Looks like the pilot did a good job in getting down without loss of life, serious injury, and without destroying the airframe.
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I think the water will be doing a fine job of destroying the airframe in the meantime. Nice to hear everyone walked away. I think that qualifies it as a good landing. A brilliant one is where they get to use the aircraft again! ;-)
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Salt or fresh water?
How long immersed?
How treated immediately following?
Airframe will require some attention but I would not have expected an aircraft w/o. It will be interesting to hear more when news is available.
How long immersed?
How treated immediately following?
Airframe will require some attention but I would not have expected an aircraft w/o. It will be interesting to hear more when news is available.
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Thomas coupling how can you possibly say that ?! Robinson is the ultimate form of recycling ! Man extracts raw materials out of the ground, frank turns said material into a helicopter and then the pilot puts it back into the ground 
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Looks like a very good solution to avoiding a post accident fire. Maybe they could recommend that all R-44 accidents utilize the same fire suppression concept?
the Crapinson Flimsicopter
Good to see the removal of another robinson product from the planet though, one has to admit. With luck we will eventually run out of them.
