30th Nov 2022 crash, Mentone Victoria
 

Just happened, more details when they are published

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Must be an inexperienced aviation reporter, they forgot words like "plummet", "hero pilot", "narrowly avoided school" and so on.

Ironically he might have been trying to reach the neighboring property.. a school oval.


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"Its believed the helicopter is linked to a company called The Helicopter Group" - Farq these talking heads are bright - wonder what gave that away - maybe the big logo on the side of the fuel tank

3,000 feet between company hangar and crash site.

I would have been more interested in the 50’ between the roof, and the oval!
To quote Maxwell Smart: “Missed by THAT much!”

It was on a scheduled navigational training flight., Interesting, its come down on the same flightpath as the mid air collison between two fixed wings, what is it ten years ago and only yards from where they fell. I dont know why it was on that route, its not the normal approach for choppers. Choppers are usually a bit more to the s/w, to avoid the fixed wings operating in the circuit.

Hughes makes another helicopter type? A "296"... that would be a 350 7/8ths?

It's tough to crash in anything slower than that, hopefully the pilot is ok and there's more than air in the tank.

269 is the original type cert all versions are derived from.

well he is still alive, which is great !

Interesting to see that two of the main rotor blades are intact and look almost undamaged.

After ‘alighting’ on the roof he probably still had the collective jammed up under his armpit.

News last night reported he was a student returning to Moorabbin after a two hour navex.

A navex ending in a crashex...........

That means he pulled off a (near)perfect auto.

...To a slope landing.

Two hour flight with 25 US Gallons fuel capacity....might be a clue.

Fuel, like most liquids, can't be compressed. Sometimes forgotten is the fact that it also can't be stretched.

Thought a `2-hour navex` in a 269 would be a `wide circuit`...