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Helipad Landing Gone Wrong

ManuCH From Switzerland, joined Jun 2005, 2971 posts, RR: 51
Posted (4 years 11 months 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 6163 times:

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Just happened at an airport near here...

http://www.blick.ch/multimedia-center/videos?firstProjectID=3623

The pilot is fine, luckily

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Trekster From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (4 years 11 months 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 6147 times:

Yikes, wonder how that happened, he seemed to get it down, then looks like the power went back up maybe?

Nice to see the airport was on the ball as it looks like the emergency alarm went off right away, and then fire fighteres run in from all over.

OHLHD From Finland, joined Dec 2004, 3962 posts, RR: 27
Reply 2, posted (4 years 11 months 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 6146 times:

Also a possibility to land the helicopter. Big grin

Good that the pilots are fine!

Jush From Germany, joined Apr 2005, 1636 posts, RR: 4
Reply 3, posted (4 years 11 months 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 6110 times:

What happened there? The heli seemed to move by itself??

Strange

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Andz From South Africa, joined Feb 2004, 8298 posts, RR: 11
Reply 4, posted (4 years 11 months 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 6110 times:

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Obviously the camera foreshortened the distances but it looked very tight, and when it went wrong my first thought was the blades and the guy on the ladder behind!

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David L From United Kingdom, joined May 1999, 9213 posts, RR: 42
Reply 5, posted (4 years 11 months 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 6097 times:

Looked like quite a wobble a few seconds earlier. I'm certainly no pilot but it seemed, perhaps, a bit too rapid to be purely from deliberate stick movements... but perhaps not.

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ManuCH From Switzerland, joined Jun 2005, 2971 posts, RR: 51
Reply 6, posted (4 years 11 months 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 5937 times:

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Quoting Jush (Reply 3):
What happened there? The heli seemed to move by itself??

According to an article I've found, it apparently slipped down from one of those helipads on wheels because he landed right on the edge.

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Chuchoteur From France, joined Sep 2006, 700 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (4 years 11 months 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 5886 times:

Quoting ManuCH (Reply 6):
According to an article I've found, it apparently slipped down from one of those helipads on wheels because he landed right on the edge.

Very plausible, the touchdown point for the helicopter seemed a bit high off the ground... damn, that has got to ruin your day...

Banjo76 From Italy, joined Apr 2008, 189 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (4 years 11 months 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 5758 times:

Quoting ManuCH (Reply 6):
According to an article I've found, it apparently slipped down from one of those helipads on wheels because he landed right on the edge.

To me it looks like the helicpter landed with one skate on the graound and one on the helipad, that's why it's leaning, then the pilot tried to adjust but one shkate must have clinched something dragging the chopper down one side.

Banjo

SAAB900 From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2007, 479 posts, RR: 0
Reply 9, posted (4 years 11 months 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 5433 times:

Quoting Chuchoteur (Reply 7):

Never mind ruining your day, how about ruining your no claims bonus! duck

But seriously thank god that they are ok. It could have been a hell of a lot worse. Especially if it had caught fire! I've no doubt that this film will come in handy at the inquest into the accident!

Dave(SAAB900)

Zeke From Hong Kong, joined Dec 2006, 7725 posts, RR: 73
Reply 10, posted (4 years 11 months 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 5293 times:

Excellent response from the fire and rescue people, very quick and efficient from what looks like to be a "small" airport.

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Viasa From Switzerland, joined Jun 2005, 1813 posts, RR: 7
Reply 11, posted (4 years 11 months 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 5207 times:

I was very surprised that nobody response to my thread some days ago: http://www.airliners.net/aviation-fo...eneral_aviation/read.main/4033615/

But now (two days later) we have a thread over this accident in Grenchen. Wink

PlaneInsomniac From Canada, joined Nov 2007, 612 posts, RR: 0
Reply 12, posted (4 years 11 months 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 4644 times:

Wow. It took the airport firefighters EXACTLY three seconds to start the alarm. Impressive!

Am I cured? Slept 5 hours on last long-haul flight...

SandroZRH From Switzerland, joined Feb 2007, 3382 posts, RR: 51
Reply 13, posted (4 years 11 months 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 4596 times:

I just completed eleven weeks of flight training at that airport and saw them land and depart from that helipad a countless times.

Glad it turned out well and thank god there was no fire, since the fuel station is just about 10m in front of the accident site. Also, The quick response by the emergency forces is no surprise, since most firefighters are actually employed somewhere at the airport.

Quoting Zeke (Reply 10):
from what looks like to be a "small" airport.

It is a pretty small airfield indeed. No commercial traffic, mainly just SEP G/A traffic. The largest you can find is the odd citation.

United787 From United States of America, joined May 2005, 2344 posts, RR: 1
Reply 14, posted (4 years 11 months 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 3518 times:

What about that guy on the ladder behind him. It is difficult to tell how far he is away, but he looks like lucky to me...

David L From United Kingdom, joined May 1999, 9213 posts, RR: 42
Reply 15, posted (4 years 11 months 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 2347 times:

Quoting Viasa (Reply 11):

I just didn't see it. Sorry! Smile

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