ADAC helicopter incident Thuringia

[muermel]

ADAC EC 135 tilted backwards after accidentally landing on a Skating Rail yesterday. A piece of sheet metal was damaged at the tail rotor. A 2nd helicopter picked up the injured boy who was hit by a car and transported him to a hospital. The hellicopter is apparently still parked at the scene.

Only in German but some pictures.

https://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/zgt/leben/blaulicht/detail/-/specific/Achtjaehriger-im-Saale-Orla-Kreis-schwer-verletzt-Hubschrauber-bleibt-auf-Skate-513936634#

[skadi]

Originally Posted by muermel

A piece of sheet metal was damaged at the tail rotor.
https://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/zgt/leben/blaulicht/detail/-/specific/Achtjaehriger-im-Saale-Orla-Kreis-schwer-verletzt-Hubschrauber-bleibt-auf-Skate-513936634#

Not quite right. As you can see on the pics, the bumper had contact to the ground, so just a bit of damaged composite material. Nothing to be worried about.

pics

skadi

[ShyTorque]

Haven't they got breakdown cover for that?

ADAC apparently do quite a good service....

[jimjim1]

Oh dear!

From the photos and google translate it seems that the skids got tangled with a "grind rail" in a skate park. Perhaps it just landed on it and was not tangled.






https://translate.google.co.uk/trans...gen-1337377218

[Rigga]

The "Grind Rail" is trapped under the Port Skid

[hueyracer]

That looks like a very "stupid" pilot mistake there....

[Phoinix]

Why stupid? Where you there? It's quite easy to miss a grey rail agains grey asphalt from the air. The smart thing was leaving it there and not pulling it into a rollover.

[hueyracer]

It is stupid because the pilot should have spotted it...or the medic sitting on the left hand seat.......if the pilot would have carried out a proper landing site inspection (high/low recce) before the landing, he would have spotted it....period.



Itīs a stupid mistake.....claiming that he did not flip it over is stupid, too..

[Phoinix]

Originally Posted by hueyracer

It is stupid because the pilot should have spotted it...or the medic sitting on the left hand seat.......if the pilot would have carried out a proper landing site inspection (high/low recce) before the landing, he would have spotted it....period.

Itīs a stupid mistake.....claiming that he did not flip it over is stupid, too..

Takes one to know one... ever heard of human performance and limitations? You have a unique character known as macho. Go read...

[DroneDog]

That "Grind rail" would be very difficult to see given its identical in colour to the asphalt, put a few in a car park and open a body repair business nearby.

[DOUBLE BOGEY]

Hueyracer. I am not sure we are allowed to call each other "Stupid" anymore. It should be a "No blame culture".
Its better to call it an "Unfortunate" incident!

[fadecdegraded]

Would have been hard to see in bad lighting or at night , especially if distracted by another hazard close by that the photo didn’t show.
If he was actually trying to use the grind rail I think putting the skids across the rail would have worked better.