Fastest crash
 

Just wondering...... (it's a Friday thing).......

Which make / model heli holds the record for shortest time between release to service and a write-off crash?

Inspired by recent pictures from Germany:ok:

Which Pictures!!??

He is talking about the Cabri crash in Germany:

Post #191
http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/296...bri-g2-10.html

Great thread topic :ugh: :=

if you mean 'financial' crash...
 

.....has to have been the Westland WG30 thingy?????
Now that was a 'crash'

I'll guess it was this one :}

http://glostransporthistory.visit-gl...li%20Cornu.jpg

Cheers

Whirls

Does not qualify for this question - not released to service - experimental!

Perhaps it was the 'A' model of something then. :p

Cheers

Whirls

Would it maybe that dude Hog of youtube fame in his newly purchased 300, down in the States.:ugh:Didn;t he figure he was gonna teach himself to fly?:D

The 300 wad-up is just classic.

1970's. Crop spraying in full swing in the UK.

Bell 47G-5A, 'AP' known lovingly to us as 'crappy pappy'.

Her first 600hr inspection then to be 'promoted' from a trainer to sprayer.

Full monty 600hr - top-end on the engine, clutch re-furb, the whole lot.

Brand new toe-mounted Simplex kit. She looked gorgeous.

Excluding the ferry to the spray site, she survived one hour before the steely-eyed, lantern-jawed driver caught the crop and rolled her into a ball.

He got out unscathed through the big hole where the bubble used to be.

We were not impressed.

One I know off;
A Bell47 3B1 has just had many new bits put on it, is test flown and signed off.

A pilot takes it out on a job, and somewhere between 25 and 30 minutes later he lands at a neighbouring property into a tight hole, ends up going down much faster than is acceptable, clips a pole with a M/R and we send the truck out next day.

The pilot is advised to stay well clear of the boss, and the engineers for quite some time.

But then I know of a certain Bell G5 that flew unscathed for 22,000 hours (all mustering) before being dunked in seawater. overpitched.
cheers tet

I once heard of what must be the shortest lived commercial operation of a air operator.

A new company with a H-300 on it very first job. 2 hour ferry flight to a site to pick up scientist´s in the mountains. Take-off there and immediately crashed on takeoff. Everybody ok but the helicopter was wrecked.

5 min total revenue flight.

There was a race?