Thread: Four dead after two helicopters collide in mid-air in Australia

Originally Posted by misskit

My dad worked for the Air Force investigating aircraft crashes. He would not fly in a helicopter. He thought they were too precarious.

One of the pilots had a t-shirt I'll never forget on a project we did with 3 Choppers based on the crew in PNG many moons ago, the back of it read Helicopters don't fly, they beat the air into submission! Never get in one unless you have to!

Originally Posted by misskit

Come to think of it, I know of no one personally who perished in a plane crash. I do know two people who died in separate helicopter crashes.

I know people who've died in both unfortunately, but more in Choppers than Planes.

Here's a couple of pics from that job in PNG (circa 1985-1986) where one Pilot was a very lucky boy to survive when he was doing stupid low level shit over a river (Croc infested, just to add to the fun) and his main-blades hit the water. As it was, he died anyway a few years later when the Chopper he was flying crashed for reasons I don't know.


Chopper buffs will see a Squirrel which was the earlier model of the 2 machines that crashed in this thread, a Lama, and somewhere else is the Hughes 500 pictured below.


Getting slung back to base after divers went down and attached a sling line to it, then a Huey 212 came in and hoisted it. All dangerous AF too!


Yeah that won't buff out!

Sorry to go off topic in the thread but I only recently scanned these old pics and thought they might be of interest to some..