Indian JetRanger cartwheels
 

JetRanger landing with good forward speed cartwheels - yesterday, 29th Aug. All walk away with minor injuries

Theres a video elsewhere in the media with actual sound of the event, the engine tone and (just after it) decaying rotor notes are clearly audible..... Let the DGCA report be the final word on the cause though.

Reminds one that when it goes all egg shaped....it does so rapidly!:E

Top of the World
 

:ok: Amazing, Wonderful & Awesome; Everyone survived - Incredible India !! :8

Happy Landings

VF

Yes - what a world. A woman walks down a road in London and gets killed by a window frame while a Jet Ranger full of pax ploughs into the ground in Gujarat and they all walk out and go for a curry!

Top of the World
 

Yes, if You watch the slow motion, zoomed in You will see the Main Rotor Blade slice neatly twice through the boom then depart the mast, intact, both blades attached via the head & start flinging towards the cameraman :eek::eek::eek::=

Holy cow!!!!! If that would have been some other type of aircraft then the occupants would have not walked away...:}

Fancy someone being supple of the posterior suggesting that! Do you think they needed the curry?

Very hard to tell with camera flicker speed etc, but is the RRPM a real problem, or lack of it I should say?

Funny how they fall and are totally uncontrollable when they run out of curry, honey:ok:

was it an autorotation or just a bad landing
 

Not a heli driver, but the landing area was confined, and not a smooth surface, so the question I asl, is: was it an autorotation or was it a just a run on landing that should have been a hover to stationary landing.

They were very lucky...no fire, any fuel on board.???

glg

I'd say a swab of the collective would show traces of armpit follicles.... looks downwind to me

As they say in India the pilots are ex Indian Air Force Wing Commanders who come from a very very good family which means it can't be pilot error!! Definitely they should be buying a lottery ticket!:ok:

Pilot Error Impossible
 

Sounds like the new Bollywood movie.

I was based in Delhi for several years, and totally agree.... it was not pilot error...

Glf

And the cyclic may have traces of whatever may be found in the groin area!

Assuming the take-off shown at minute 6:00 on the first YouTube link is of the same flight...........