Accident nr Lake Vyrnwy Hotel, Wales
 

From BBC
BBC News - Helicopter crash near Lake Vyrnwy in Powys

A man and a woman are being treated in hospital after a helicopter crash near Lake Vyrnwy in Powys.

Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service say they were called to the incident, involving a private helicopter, at Llanwddyn at 13.15 GMT.

Police said the helicopter came down near a hill, but it is thought the two occupants were not seriously hurt.

The air ambulance has been called and firefighters are in the process of clearing up at the scene.

It is understood the two people on board the helicopter had been visiting the area for the day and were attempting to land on the Lake Vyrnwy Hotel`s designated helicopter pad.

The Air Accidents Investigations Branch will be looking into the cause of the crash.

If anyone has had the chance to land at Vyrnwy hotel you will realise how lucky these folks were!

Steep hill on the one side and a drop into the lake on the other.... Have often wondered what would happen if silence occured whilst approaching/departing that site.

Worth it though for the burgers and the view :ok:

"wales" is not an area one associates with long runways and easy approaches... I wanted to go to Machynlleth once, it was either Welshpool or Caernarfon or nothing.

Good the occupants got away with minor injuries only.

keep going at this rate and we may eradicate R22s.

and photo of G-FIRS now at Twitter

Glad to hear they're not seriously injured. My whole 6 and a half hours R22 taught me much respect for those that have to fly them.

Not quite sure if it quite deserves a double thumbs up :=

http://images.nwnmedia.co.uk/assets/...HELICOPTER.jpg

Do you think he is giving the thumbs up for being alive or for destroying an R22? Either way genius photo.

FSX - not sure what's so 'genius' about the photo :=

I was flying at a private site not far from Vyrnwy at about the same time. Excellent viz, light winds. Looks like they were lucky to walk away.

Lewycasino - I wonder if the same 5 year old in your picture was flying it?

Look at the photo and you'll see someone smiling and with both 'thumbs up', this is what FSXPilot refers to.

A most unusual fire profile, I wonder what the investigators may say about that?

Only ever seen it once before, don't remember whether the insurers paid out on it or not.:=

Short video on BBC with no sound suggests this R22 landed on a 20 degree upslope (approx).

Well that looks like one hell of a slope!! Topendtorque what do you consider unusual about the burn sequence?? Is it that the passenger side tank looks untouched? I have g info'd it and its a beta so two tanks if anyone suspected it was a hp.

I'll let my question run through to the keeper for a while.

Sarcasm is obviously lost on you. If I'd left a mess like that the last thing I would be doing is posing beside it with my thumbs up.

Good news no-one hurt, but even better news that another Robinson bites the dust. Their ratings in the accident statistics database will be off the scale after 2012 has been plotted. Is it 6 or 7 that have stoofed this month so far?
The Lada's of the helo world have caused more upset than the worth of it. Good riddance. The government should ban them like they did the cars. :E

Topendorque, what;s with the fire signature then? Is that snow or foam?

don't know could have peed on it for all I know or waited a bit longer, it might have gone out by itself, splendid fire-wall I see. I wonder if the firewall is bent, if not it can be rebuilt.
I think drumpump is on to it.

oh and I should have added just to make your day, another one rolled up at caloundra Qld. very recently. dynamic roll over on a TIF I was told, work that one out?
tet

"The government should ban them like they [sic] did the cars" :bored: