Private Gazelle Incident in Lincolnshire.
 

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/347643

https://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/news...crash-9338336/

Somehow good outcome for hitting the pole on take off, noboby hurt thanks to the cabin in one piece and transmission still attached.

A sad end for a nice looking machine - all for the want of a pair of sunglasses it would seem.

I'm curious. The pilot was there to deliver a donation to a Veterans charity. I wonder if he's a former military pilot ? Not that it would have any bearing on the accident, just nosey.

NEO

I wonder if the front seat pax opened the door before the blades got stopped.

A moot point if they had already clobbered a floodlighting pole ... but it doesn't look the safest or the best design for the door if it opens right into the rotor disc.

Having watched that aircraft depart other sites, if it was the same pilot, I highly doubt that he/she was ex-mil.

I thought the CAA had kiboshed the ability for N-reg helicopters being permanently based and flown in the UK?

CAA made all n reg owners in Uk have a uk licence to fly in uk airspace

So that means all the foreign registered Gazelles, MD500s etc that you see around the UK are being flown by people with UK CAA licences with valid type ratings/medicals?

H99 correct. The CAA are trying to get all foreign ac based in UK to spend 72 hours outside UK airspace every 6 months !

should be if they are uk residents

that’s not to hard to do ? A weekend in LFAT but if they spent that time in easa land they would also need a easa licence as rules changed there too

a 3 day stay in le touquet every six months then?

with the type rating renewal and medical costs....that probably wipes out any cost saving from not having an aircraft on the G register?

The standard doors on the AS350/355, EC130, EC120 will all do that IF disconnected from the gas spring while rotors turn in its normal path. This Gazelle’s rotor might not have done, after the impact with the pole.

Why would I want an inferior license. I already have an ICAO one.

...and now we get the pedants discussing the difference between "license" (vb) and "licence" (n)... or perhaps not :cool:

... or at least a look around while approaching the aircraft for likely obstructions; or did complacency pay a key role as the pilot had been going there for 20 years according to the LincsOnline article.

As they are totally different words that would be a very strange application of "pedantry" indeed...

depends if they use American English, when the noun and verb are spelled the same!