apiaguy Posted July 17, 2011 Posted July 17, 2011 N810AG ROBINSON R66 ROTORCRAFT CRASHED SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF, THE 2 PERSONS ON BOARD WERE FATALLY INJURED, BOGOTA, COLUMBIA not a good start. Quote
RagMan Posted July 17, 2011 Posted July 17, 2011 Those Columbians can't fly for squat. They crash their military helicopters all the damn time. Doesn't surprise me. They need to learn how to fly before they jump in the seat of nice aircraft. Quote
mrjibbs Posted July 17, 2011 Posted July 17, 2011 sheesh, not what we should be reading about already... "The Robinson R66 helicopter crashed in an open field shortly after takeoff. After landing at Girardot Airport (SKGI) the two occupants decided to make a pleasure flight over the region with the fatal result. Killed in the crash was Juan Pablo Gaviria, President of the Colombian Civil Air Patrol and the pilot." Quote
adam32 Posted July 17, 2011 Posted July 17, 2011 I'm probably the biggest Robbie basher around...but there are way too many variables that could have happened to be thinking its a fault with the R66... For all we know they forgot to put fuel in it before takeoff... Quote
Goldy Posted July 17, 2011 Posted July 17, 2011 N810AG ROBINSON R66 ROTORCRAFT CRASHED SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF, THE 2 PERSONS ON BOARD WERE FATALLY INJURED, BOGOTA, COLUMBIAnot a good start. Hmm, how does Columbia get so much money they can fly R66's? Seriously, with only 2 people on board, you have so much power reserve it would be really hard to screw up anything. We all knew sooner or later every model would be involved in a bad accident, I will be very curious to see what they find as the cause. The R66 has a mini computer in it that tracks many different inputs, mostly from the turbine. It could come in helpful in an accident investigation, sorta like a mini FDR. Quote
Auto-Rotation-Nation Posted July 18, 2011 Posted July 18, 2011 Schocking this soon from release of the R66. One was downtown by me not too long ago. The fly smooth and operate smooth, can't believe it had anything to do with the mechanics other than a maitanence/prep error by the crew, I'll chalk this up for human error. Quote
FlyNHighNFast Posted July 18, 2011 Posted July 18, 2011 It could be anything, maybe even a wire strike? The loss of life, and a brand new ship is really sad. Quote
500E Posted July 21, 2011 Posted July 21, 2011 There are photos of tail section cut\ broken off, said to happened at approx 300Ft?.Blade flap? or failure of structure not known, either way not good, dead is dead however it happens condolences to the relatives & friends.Conflicting information as usual. http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=137399 http://www.lafm.com.co/noticias/orden-p-blico/12-07-11/dos-muertos-dej-accidente-de-helic-ptero-en-inmediaciones-de-flandes Quote
RagMan Posted July 21, 2011 Posted July 21, 2011 Man, that thing just pancaked on the ground. Thanks for the photos 500E. Quote
IFLY Posted July 21, 2011 Posted July 21, 2011 If you watch one of the videos it shows a section of the tail in the trees at the edge of the field. IMHO they were low level and popped over the trees did a push-over and chopped the tail boom then momentum took them to the middle of the field. Jerry Quote
lelebebbel Posted July 22, 2011 Posted July 22, 2011 Blade flap? or failure of structure not known, either way not good The angle and the position of the cut look very much like a blade strike to the tailboom to me. Screenshot from the video: Quote
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