R22 crash on german autobahn near Rastatt

[lelebebbel]

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,504645,00.html

not a pretty picture, viewer discretion advised.

 

rough translation:

"today at 3:55pm, a light helicopter, type robinson, for unknown reasons crashed on the left lane of the autobahn A5 in the vicinity of the Bühl motorway service area and was severly damaged. The northbound lanes of the autobahn were closed, causing a massive traffic jam.

According to the police, the two people killed in the crash were the occupants of the aircraft. No vehicles on the autobahn were damaged and noone on the ground was injured. The german federal office for flight safety Braunschweig is investigating the crash."

 

according to a local news website ( http://www.ka-news.de/karlsruhe/news.php4?...dab200798-2150G ), the helicopter had departed from the Baden Airpark Airport and a witness reported that "a part" seperated from the helicopter prior to the crash. Looking at the photo, I notice that the main rotor is missing, although there could be other reasons why it is not in the picture.

[james28]

what robinson? i can't see it.

 

that's nuts, sorry to hear about it.

[slick1537]

A mast bumping incident perhaps?

[IFLY]

Looks like the tail cut off at the right place for it.

[lelebebbel]

More (small) pictures here:

http://www.nonstopnews-video.de/index.php?...amp;newsnr=5674

 

according to this website, the rotorblade lying at that guardrail was found on the other lane of the highway.

 

apparently, an employee of the flight safety office happened to be in the vicinity when the crash happened. Hopefully they'll be able to solve this.

Edited September 9, 2007 by lelebebbel

[Goldy]

heilige Scheiße!!

 

 

Loosley translated as Holy Sh..!!

 

I hate seeing the crumpled remains of any ship...oh well, off to pre-flight.

 

Goldy

[Copterpilot213]

Man that sucks, I hope we can hear the results of the investigation. Thanks for posting and translating.