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Helicopter Forced Landing - Oulton Park F3 GT meeting 2004
If anyone who was involved in the above incident is interested, the accident report has recently been published on the Department for Transport website:
http://www.aaib.gov.uk/publications/...0c__g_brpo.cfm
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1 Feb 2005, 12:39
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Interesting reading, thanks for the link FM
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1 Feb 2005, 22:37
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Thanks for the Link Andy - Interesting stuff.
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2 Feb 2005, 09:05
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Fascinating.
I remember reading about it at the time - always interesting to see these things wrapped up.
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Didnt sumthing similer happen during one of the races in last years British F3/GT meet? But the helicopter actually fell on its side in the field adjacent to the avenue?
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Didnt sumthing similer happen during one of the races in last years British F3/GT meet? But the helicopter actually fell on its side in the field adjacent to the avenue?
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Er Yes! This is the report into that incident...............
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2 Feb 2005, 14:37
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lol, now i feel stupid! haha
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I was at that meeting, we did wonder what the hell was going on at the time!
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you weren't the only one - i was watching the fire tender dealing with a golf that had lost it brakes and was close to flames when they just abandoned it and ran away! It was just after that we heard from the observer that the race had been stopped due to the 'copter problems and we needed to get ourselves over to the golf sharpish...
...and all that after Mr Brand told me that after our fire training that morning he'd hardly ever seen a fire in his time marshalling 
is there such thing as a verbal pork pie?
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...and all that after Mr Brand told me that after our fire training that morning he'd hardly ever seen a fire in his time marshalling |
What I actually said was that I knew people who'd been marshalling for many a year & never seen a fire.....I, on the other hand, had had one at my second meeting!
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we went and had a nose at what was going on from old hall - all you could see was a couple of skew-whiff rotor blades.
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you weren't the only one - i was watching the fire tender dealing with a golf that had lost it brakes and was close to flames when they just abandoned it and ran away! It was just after that we heard from the observer that the race had been stopped due to the 'copter problems and we needed to get ourselves over to the golf sharpish...
...and all that after Mr Brand told me that after our fire training that morning he'd hardly ever seen a fire in his time marshalling
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Got a couple of pictures... this is the Golf...
http://www.mdh-photography.co.uk/images/golf.jpg
And my brother was watching from a different part of the track and got this picture :
http://www.mdh-photography.co.uk/images/helicopter.jpg
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That Air Accident Investigation Branch (aaib) site makes interesting (but scary) reading. I follow it each month and a while ago there was a report of an aircraft leaving Heathrow with fuel streaming out behind it. The plane returned immediately and an investigation revealed that during a previous routine engineering check an inspection cover to the centre belly fuel tank had been left off. As a result, when the plane took off at an angle, fuel ran out of the opening, right next to an engine. And you think flying is pretty safe.......
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2 Feb 2005, 21:32
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Worse for the people underneath I should think!
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