Is a fenestron useful ?
 

It seems so :
https://www.rtl.lu/news/national/a/2306525.html

"One job" is that you? Going to be hard to BS their way out of that one. As the saying goes "all the gear, and no idea" . "Dreckskëscht" for that aircraft.

ASN entry indicates it was LX-HLP in Luxembourg:

https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/513742

That once we were sent with tow wheels to reposition one of those situation...

Wrong thread title here. The Fenestron was ok until the „landing“. He damaged the main blades in the trees. All tips are fu….

usually hang a saw under a 500 but each to their own

I was very surprised how long it was before it was shut down.

Maybe the pilot could not find the engine switches because of the vibrations! :E

The pilot probably took a while to get his head out of his hands after realising what he had just done to his aircraft and his career......

It looks like the fenestron was very useful. Without it the bird would have no tail feathers and been a suddenly spinning, uncontrollable mess whipping into the trees rather than simply losing lift and getting back on the ground.

Here's another. If this had been an S76 rather than a Dauphin the outcome would have been somewhat different.

https://assets.publishing.service.go...BKXD_07-08.pdf

"The full extent of the damage was still to be
determined at the time of writing, but was likely to be
more extensive than the first assessment indicated"

I liked this bit of understatement. Replacement tail drive train, tailboom, MRGB and two engines.