Little Rock PD Helicopter crash August 2018

[NRDK]

Outwest... true, and at one point on an ILS I get the centreline and guideslope as well... then like you said..it all goes to S#*t

[gulliBell]

It seems it was the leaf blower, reported here:

[Rotor George]

Originally Posted by gulliBell

It seems it was the leaf blower, reported here:

Max Brantley needs to find another job, fact finding and writing are not his strong suit.

[Rotor George]

Straight line winds. So now we know the cause.

[Ascend Charlie]

Yeah, that wind was so strong, it didn't ruffle the fur on the dog, didn't make a T-shirt flap, didn't swing the screen door. If it really was blowing a gale, the dude with Horatio Leafblower wouldn't have bothered being out there. Obviously that "reporter" didn't even look at the video before writing that trash.

[gulliBell]

"Straight-line wind" is Police speak for leaf blower, right? They obviously need a much bigger helicopter that is more resilient of leaf blowers, or hire a different guy to drive them.

[Old Boeing Driver]

The other person?

Originally Posted by Rotor George

Max Brantley needs to find another job, fact finding and writing are not his strong suit.

Was the "other person onboard" the one that was actually doing the flying, and was that person a pilot?
Also, the straight line wind didn't seem to blow the smoke and dust away very much after the accident.

[gulliBell]

Technically it did get airborne, but NTSB or FAA not taking any interest in this one. We may never know what happened.

[Vertical Freedom]

Originally Posted by gulliBell

"Straight-line wind" is Police speak for leaf blower, right? They obviously need a much bigger helicopter that is more resilient of leaf blowers, or hire a different guy to drive them.

Hey GulliBell.....no ordinary leaf blower there Mate they make 'em very special in 'Little Rock' strong enough to blow Your socks & undies off...imagine that kinda force on a lowly ole hovering JetBox Luckily they didn't bring out the 'Little Rock Whipper Snipper'...imagine the carnage that'd have made

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Well if that is the level of reporting accepted in the US, no wonder the Donald doesn't think much of the media........

[SASless]

Now Crab....as Ronald Ray Guns used to say....."There you go again!".

The American Media is no different than the British Media as to the quality of reporting.

Lord knows Ya'll done been bemoaning the poor quality of your own media with great regularity here at Rotor Heads.

[SASless]

Originally Posted by gulliBell

Technically it did get airborne, but NTSB or FAA not taking any interest in this one. We may never know what happened.

Like that 429 Tail Rotor thing at the HEMS Charity.....eh?

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Sasless - no argument that some institutions like the Daily Mail have some pretty shoddy reporting but the relationship between the Govt and the press in the UK isn't as bad as this https://www.newsmediaalliance.org/news-outlets-fight-back-trump/


and thishttps://www.newsmediaalliance.org/ne...ht-back-trump/