Helicopter down in Northern UT ... anyone have more details?

[HeliUtah]

Looks like the Mountain Ridge Helicopters up in Logan lost a helicopter yesterday. Pilot and student walked away, so kudos to the pilot. Does anyone have any more details or knowledge of type of helicopter, or what the problem was?

 

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700030631/Pilots-walk-away-from-Utah-crash.html

[pendulosity]

This article is from the local paper. It doesn't have much more information than the other article. They don't offer any indication of what caused the engine failure.

 

http://news.hjnews.com/news/article_7da58414-5a40-11df-b0e9-001cc4c002e0.html

[UtahHeliPilot]

I don't think a cause has been released yet.

[klas]

This article is from the local paper. It doesn't have much more information than the other article. They don't offer any indication of what caused the engine failure.

 

http://news.hjnews.com/news/article_7da58414-5a40-11df-b0e9-001cc4c002e0.html

 

Someone in the 'comments' section of that article said that a 'friend' of his flew an R22 & the main rotor came apart & flew off. Did that ever really happen?

[ercam1991]

"They tried to restart it," he said. "It did not restart so they executed an auto rotation into this field."

From the article....that's funny! Tried to restart, then executed an autorotation.....See, I knew you had more than a second to react.

[ercam1991]

Someone in the 'comments' section of that article said that a 'friend' of his flew an R22 & the main rotor came apart & flew off. Did that ever really happen?

Of course, and Elvis was the pilot!