R44 heavy landing Jandakot, Australia

[huey]

Men escape serious injury after tricky landing at airport in Perth - 9news.com.au


Today. No injuries.

[onetrack]

Heavy landing is a bit of an understatement. If you land and knock off a large chunk of tailboom, isn't that more correctly called a crash?

Perth Now - Helicopter crash at Jandakot airport

[skadi]

Originally Posted by onetrack

Heavy landing is a bit of an understatement. If you land and knock off a large chunk of tailboom, isn't that more correctly called a crash?

Perth Now - Helicopter crash at Jandakot airport

The impact caused the rear tail to snap causing a fuel leak.

Didn't know that there is fuel in the tailboom...

skadi

[chopjock]

onetrack

If you land and knock off a large chunk of tailboom, isn't that more correctly called a crash?

I think you are absolutely right, it isn't more correctly called a crash.

[Brian Abraham]

Definitions used are at times interesting. One I love in official reports is the categorisation of damage being "substantial", when the largest piece left you could put in your pocket. The following is an "incident" as filed on the NTSB report by the owner.

[gulliBell]

Suspect nothing much to learn from this prang....maybe the instructor will be invited to coffee with the CFI.

[Hughes500]

Gulli

Do you not mean an interview WITHOUT coffee

[gulliBell]

Yes, of course...one of those invitations for coffee, but without the coffee. I suspect.

[krypton_john]

Sitting upright on skids but broken... hard landing.

Otherwise it's a crash!

[gulliBell]

Can't imagine the ATSB being too interested in this one...