Bell 407 Crash in Hawaii
Bell 407 Crash in Hawaii
A few pictures.
I don't think that will buff out.
I don't think that will buff out.
Tour guys must know what they're doing, but I've always been spooked about flying down into a caldera. Couldn't be sure the engine would keep making power from the potential of inhospitable air composition. Not saying that was the case here.
All those fissures and raggedy lava rock also make any landing very dangerous...and if you had any forward motion at the end of an autorotation.....odds are it will not turn out well.
That is much the same for flying over Glaciers too....without the Lava Rock.
That is much the same for flying over Glaciers too....without the Lava Rock.
So the copters bingle in lava fields, and glaciers, and we like flying choppers, why? Hope they never bring in the question on medicals whether you fly choppers or not as a psych test.
Recent news.....Tail Boom was found over 700 feet from the main wreckage.
Questions focus upon the Tailboom attachment fasteners....as one appears to be missing if I read the article correctly.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/hawaii-to...5e8f1f4f55c88e
Questions focus upon the Tailboom attachment fasteners....as one appears to be missing if I read the article correctly.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/hawaii-to...5e8f1f4f55c88e
Note there is now a separate thread related to this accident titled "Bell 407 in-flight tail boom separation" started by Cyclic Hotline on 23 Nov 2022. But also adding link to ATSB report AIR-22-10 of December 1, 2022 here as it explains circumstances of tail boom separation as understood to date:
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/...ts/AIR2210.pdf
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/...ts/AIR2210.pdf
