Bell 505 down in Ireland
 

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2...-co-westmeath/

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Irish Times saying there are casualties, no more details yet other than that the building is a piggery.

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I'm not sure it's a great idea to display an image showing the registration when we don't even know if next of kin have been notified.

What a thoughtless and terrible thing to write.

The image is from what appears to be a news site if you click the link.

Both occupants were killed in the crash. The flight was out of Weston, where there is a helicopter pilot training school.

the reg lookup i am seeing says it's a Bell 505

the reg can be found on twitter

You are correct. I entered the wrong registration.

One of those on board was a non-Irish national and news reports indicate that the police here are working through Interpol to try amd contact his next-of-kin.

Further info out that they had been reported by a local farmer for chasing cattle..........

why would one want to chase cattle ? Not in Oz !

Hardly likely, certainly not deliberating “chasing” cows, there may have been cattle in a field, it’s a big grass fed cattle growing region. Instructor may have been showing student how to get familiar with hazards, the cows might have run a bit with noise of helicopter in vicinity.

I read an alleged eyewitness report that it was flying low level and straight when the engine just seemed to quit, "it dropped like a stone," and "to have bounced on initial impact." I assume it hit the roof and bounced on it, according to this account.

To put all the silly eyewitness reports to bed, look at the flight log on FlightRadar. It starts of conducting multiple circuits at an airfield.
It departs the airfield and between 1500-1800ft on multiple occasions it has a high RoD, recovers and climbs back up to altitude.
Looks like circuits followed by Autorotation training, perhaps practise engine failure go resulted in the touch drills being the real thing

Practicing autorotations does tie in with that eyewitness account, engine noise drops, and heli rapidly losing altitude.

If you look at the pics, the skids are flattened and there's sods of grass and muck embedded in them, suggests that it did hit terra firma before its final resting place.

RIP to both guys.

Sure does…it must have hit pretty hard to get grass above the cross tube…
poor guys…
S

Both occupants publicly named now: https://www.independent.ie/irish-new...067113997.html

silly eyewitness report from the farmer of the cattle - either 'larking about' or repeated use of his field for ccts/eng offs. landed on shed after bouncing

Is the 505 a twistgrip throttle on the collective like the 206?