Crash in Carlingford, Ireland March 2017
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Crash in Carlingford, Ireland March 2017
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakin...ed-781308.html
Two men were being treated in hospital last night after the helicopter that they were flying crash-landed in a garden not far from their home, writes Noel Baker.
The incident occurred at around 5.15pm when the three-seater Enstron light helicopter crashed into a copse of trees in a garden near the bottom of Top Hill in Carlingford in Co Louth.
It is understood that Donie Marron, a noted pilot from the area, was on board, as well as his son, Dustin.
It is believed Donie is a brother of Kevin, a well-known journalist who was among the nine men who died in the Beaujolais plane crash of November 1984 near Eastbourne in England.
Units from the fire brigade and the ambulance service attended the scene and one of the men was airlifted to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, while the other was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.
Gardaí said the man airlifted to Beaumont was in a serious condition, and that one of the injured men was in his 70s and the other aged in his 40s.
Jurgen Whyte, chief inspector of air accidents with the Air Accident Investigation Unit, attended the scene with an AAIU team and said: “I don’t know how anybody got out of it. This is a crash-landing.”
Mr Whyte said there appeared to be few witnesses and it would need to be determined whether the helicopter had just taken off or was due to land.
The area of trees into which it crashed is not far from Mr Marron’s property, which is understood to feature the helicopter’s regular take-off and landing area.
The incident occurred at around 5.15pm when the three-seater Enstron light helicopter crashed into a copse of trees in a garden near the bottom of Top Hill in Carlingford in Co Louth.
It is understood that Donie Marron, a noted pilot from the area, was on board, as well as his son, Dustin.
It is believed Donie is a brother of Kevin, a well-known journalist who was among the nine men who died in the Beaujolais plane crash of November 1984 near Eastbourne in England.
Units from the fire brigade and the ambulance service attended the scene and one of the men was airlifted to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, while the other was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.
Gardaí said the man airlifted to Beaumont was in a serious condition, and that one of the injured men was in his 70s and the other aged in his 40s.
Jurgen Whyte, chief inspector of air accidents with the Air Accident Investigation Unit, attended the scene with an AAIU team and said: “I don’t know how anybody got out of it. This is a crash-landing.”
Mr Whyte said there appeared to be few witnesses and it would need to be determined whether the helicopter had just taken off or was due to land.
The area of trees into which it crashed is not far from Mr Marron’s property, which is understood to feature the helicopter’s regular take-off and landing area.
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Don't take it personally and remember on here fiction before fact.
Regards CO.
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Not questioning FSX’s credentials, but let’s get an answer to his post. Did you previously, prior to this unfortunate accident wreck an Enstrom?
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Oh deary me...
Someone has decided that he does not want to answer the difficult questions and has scarpered.
He'd have been well advised to have left sleeping dogs to lie - No one had posted on this threadf for two years until he had his little tantrum - now we're all talking about it again.
I just hope he's learned from these two accidents - He may not have the opportunity to learn from his next one!
Someone has decided that he does not want to answer the difficult questions and has scarpered.
He'd have been well advised to have left sleeping dogs to lie - No one had posted on this threadf for two years until he had his little tantrum - now we're all talking about it again.
I just hope he's learned from these two accidents - He may not have the opportunity to learn from his next one!
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Here is the AAIU accident report for that one, interesting that the pilot didn't appear to be properly licensed....
http://www.aaiu.ie/sites/default/fil...2016-011_0.pdf
http://www.aaiu.ie/sites/default/fil...2016-011_0.pdf
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