Posted on 10/01/2021 9:51:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
Tragic scene at chandler airport after a helicopter and plane collide mid-air. This is the downed chopper. Details on @azfamily pic.twitter.com/Aa7PyjrCSG
— Scott Pasmore (@scottpasmoretv) October 1, 2021
The Chandler Fire Department reported a mid-air collision between a helicopter and a fixed-wing plane.
The plane was able to land safely.
BREAKING: Mid air collision between a helicopter and a fixed wing plane near McQueen and Queen Creek.
We’re told the plane was able to land safely but the helicopter crashed and caught fire pic.twitter.com/17cwv9XDwi
— Kaley O'Kelley (@kaleyokelley) October 1, 2021
The good old R22. Lots of us learned in that.
Rotorway Helicopters (even smaller “experimental”) used to be based at Chandler too.
Rotorway Helicopters is still located at the Chandler airport. They’re now called Rotor X Aircraft Manufacturing.
Did you mean totarry uninterrigiber?
Ha. One conversation I had a couple weeks ago sounded just perfect when it came to account information, address, etc.
Then came the part where I was told what action to take and it turned into the Swedish chef from the Muppet show. Seriously strange day.
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More of the combination of face diaper muffling and the sing-song staccato speech cadence. Wife and I had a good laugh later at who would put someone with such lousy English working with hearing aids.
Wife has perfect hearing and could not follow what was said, so a deaf olde farte like me was out to lunch.
Let’s not forget the collision and crash over the Grand Canyon way back in June 1956. I was 9 years old and still remember it.
Years later I read of how Colin Fletcher, several years later, came upon the wreckage on his hike through the Grand Canyon (The Man Who Walked Through Time).
Perspective.....................
Because a helicopter (flying oil leak with thousands of parts spinning around waiting for metal fatigue to set in) has the glide path of a rock.
My wild guess is: The helo came up under the plane and hit the landing gear, which took out the rotor and the help fell straight down go boom. The plane only suffered damage to the landing gear which was why it was able to maneuver, make an approach, land on the runway but couldn’t stay on, sliding off to the left side from it’s appearance in the photo.
Neither saw the other prior to contact.
All just a guess.
Robinsons (R22/R44) are the worst choppers out there.. I don’t know how they were ever allowed to take off.
I HATE calling help lines just for that reason!
My wife, whose hearing is much better, has the same problem.
Well they aren’t my favorites, but there are absolutely worse helicopters. I’d rather fly MD500 or even an old Jet Ranger, but for the cost per hour R22s are a great bang for the buck.
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