R44 down in Courchevel March 2008
 

A British registered R44 crashed on take-off at Courchevel on Saturday afternoon, according to the local rag. 4 British POB uninjured, except for one passenger taken to hospital for shock. The report says the helicopter caught on protection netting at the side of a ski piste close to the altiport. No skiers hurt. Photos show the blue and white machine, reg starting G-W... on its side and seriously bent.

Any links?

Glad to read everyone is ok though!

There are 14 R44s with G-W*** registered on G-INFO:

http://www.caa.co.uk/application.asp...rcrafttype=r44

Of the 9 aircraft with photos attached, 3 have got blue and white paint schemes: G-WAFU, G-WEGO and G-WMWM. (Of the 5 aircraft without photos, only 1 is still flying: G-WALI.)


HTH

B73

You must have had a long time with nothing else to do at work.

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It didn't actually take that long...

http://www.ledauphine.com/file/ftp/u...0315214418.pdf

The best I can do is this link to the front page.

any links to page 5?

MADY

No links to the main article without a subscription.

Apart from a slightly different photo, there's nothing substantive in the article that isn't summarised in the first post, except a note of the existence of a controversial project to build a four star hotel on the crash site, and speculation as to whether this will be reviewed as a result of the incident.

Come to think of it, that could be the most significant aspect of the whole event.

One thinks this might have been from Aeromega, Cambridge, possibly with DB at the controls.

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I hope not.

It's the wrong shade of blue for WMWM, well it looks like it anyway.

I'm sure thet DB was planning a trip out to the alps in a R44 around then, school trip to learn about Mountain Flying. I wrote to him and he replied 27th March but did not mention anything.

Is that DB from GB who knows CB??

I was ski-ing in Courchevel at that time and saw G-WMWM from the restaurant at the Altiport on March 14th.