rugged Sport Copter M912 hardly damaged after rough terrain crash

[Kolibri]

 

[Perzy]

finaly some one hwo has expirenced flying gyro in downdraft / rotorwind .. it would be intresting to hear details - windspeed. turbulence flying height airspeed was there any atempt for recovery

 

[Steve_UK]

The Sport Copter shown in the original photos *might be" N911GW which had an accident in Feb 2016

There was a thread about it here on RWF.

I've no idea why but I can't see it among the NTSB Monthly reports for Feb 2016


Here's the original RWF thread



https://www.rotaryforum.com/forum/general/news/46138-sport-copter-down

 

[Kolibri]

Yes, pilot survived, and actually walked away without even a scratch.

It crunched the tail [of N911GW].

Since the tail was not damaged, it was not N911GW.

 

[Vance]

Question...did the pilots of these crashes survive?

Three accidents, one fatality in Australia, no fatalities in the two USA accidents.

 

[Kolibri]

I was speaking only of the crash and photo I posted about.

The Australian fatality had little/no training and hit a tree.
It was moot that he did so in an M912 vs. something else. Just sayin'.