Re: Kompress hard landing

Re: Kompress hard landing

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Kompress hard landing Flyingmonk 06-18-2006

"J.Kahn" <jdkahn@REMOVEvideotron.ca> wrote in message
news:c8zlg.5330$1f2.131850@weber.videotron.net...
> Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
>> "Flyingmonk" <laonork@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1150673181.537245.230100@y41g2000cwy.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AS3bVqcq_0&search=helicopter
>>>
>>>Looks like a two seater (tandem) CH-7 Kompress. Anyone with details on
>>>this flight?
>>>
>>>Monk
>>>
>>
>>
>> I'm impressed the guy walked away from it.
> It was probably unwise to let him walk. There would have been a very good
> chance of a spinal injury that would've been made much worse by letting
> him walk. Like Hoover's accident when he got a fractured spine which he
> didn't discover till much later.

You are right. What impressed me is that he wasn't killed immediately. The
airframe in that thing must be fairly hardy. Though after looking at it a
second time I think he was ejected from the aircraft there at the end.






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