Christmas Tree Placement Accident

[rumrunner]

http://www.3news.co.nz/Lucky-to-come-away-unscathed/tabid/367/articleID/233786/Default.aspx

 

There is more disscussion and video links over at

http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=77973

 

Happy to see the pilot walked away

[Elvis]

Wake up and smell the coffee rumrunner posted on the 22nd

 

 

http://www.verticalmag.com/forums/can/index.php?/topic/20037-sling-job-gone-bad/

[Over-Talk]

Scary stuff......almost as scary as linking to a competitor's web-forum!

[rumrunner]

Wake up and smell the coffee rumrunner posted on the 22nd

 

 

http://www.verticalmag.com/forums/can/index.php?/topic/20037-sling-job-gone-bad/

 

Sorry bout that! I never look at the video section.

 

Merry X-mas!

[RupertPupkin]

I know everyone is saying wire strike, and judging from the amount of cables around that is very possible. Could ground resonance be a possibility? Watch his left skid tube just before it gets exciting. It looks like he puts it on a pole.....

[407 too]

I know everyone is saying wire strike, and judging from the amount of cables around that is very possible. Could ground resonance be a possibility? Watch his left skid tube just before it gets exciting. It looks like he puts it on a pole.....

 

This is beaten to death on pprune, alternate position video shows pilot descending with longline cable still attached, lowers himself to an altitude which a ground handler can reach the line, gives it a yank, and the line, still attached to the top of the pole, comes in contact with the MR, rest is history

[RupertPupkin]

yup the head on view tells the story better.