Weatherford Air Ambulance crash.

[KOPBET]

Very sad. Happens way too often.

 

[Catt57]

Very sad news.

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Radar track shows them at over 100 knots, then a sudden climb in altitude and corresponding air speed drop to 39 knots. Then they disappear from radar.

Landing skids are intact and apparently undamaged, they are designed to "bend" and act as a cushion. They either hit upside down or on their side. Heard that dead geese were found in the debris.

I also noticed that the - or at least part of - the main rotor head is in a separate photo indicating it likely departed the craft before the fuselage hit the ground. It wouldn't take much to damage a rotor blade and knock it out of balance to the point it would depart the hub and have the remaining blade yank the hub off. That said, there isn't much of any blade left on the hub. Running into a flock of geese could certainly cause that.

Woody

 

[turkeyrun]

Sad news

Seen the report, yesterday.

A good friend is a 911 dispatcher. My cousin's son flies for Duncan Life Flight. He is a retires, Army instructor, flew Apache copters in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

[Shadowrider]

Preliminary report.