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muermel 14th Feb 2019 14:12
ADAC helicopter incident Thuringia
 
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 14th Feb 2019 15:52
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 14th Feb 2019 19:02
Haven't they got breakdown cover for that?

ADAC apparently do quite a good service.... :p

jimjim1 14th Feb 2019 19:17
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://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....78cf026e9e.jpg

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....d474ef8af1.jpg
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....a9e0a104b1.jpg

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

Rigga 14th Feb 2019 20:16
The "Grind Rail" is trapped under the Port Skid

hueyracer 15th Feb 2019 13:18
That looks like a very "stupid" pilot mistake there....

Phoinix 15th Feb 2019 17:45
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 16th Feb 2019 07:41
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 16th Feb 2019 07:48
Originally Posted by hueyracer (Post 10391486)
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 16th Feb 2019 15:10
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 16th Feb 2019 16:42
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 16th Feb 2019 18:48
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.


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