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bob10
20th March 2019, 07:48 PM
Pilot killed in helicopter crash was laying power cables (https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/pilot-killed-in-helicopter-crash-was-laying-power-cables/ar-BBUZfTq?ocid=spartandhp)
4bee
20th March 2019, 08:14 PM
My eldest grandson is working at the new Carrapatena Mine & went back to work today after his Fi-Fo time was up.

I know he would be very upset.
4bee
21st March 2019, 07:29 AM
Hit a Power pole apparently. I guess it only takes one blade to just brush & you are a goner?

Pilot dies in helicopter crash near Carrapateena mine in SA's outback - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-20/helicopter-crash-near-carrapateena-mine/10920130?pfmredir=sm)
bob10
21st March 2019, 10:02 PM
Hit a Power pole apparently. I guess it only takes one blade to just brush & you are a goner?

Pilot dies in helicopter crash near Carrapateena mine in SA's outback - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-20/helicopter-crash-near-carrapateena-mine/10920130?pfmredir=sm)

Bad weather?
Vern
21st March 2019, 10:06 PM
This is actually one of Sheldons (the grubb)good mates, very sad indeed.
4bee
22nd March 2019, 08:08 AM
Bad weather?

Maybe, but shirley if it was that bad should the poor guy have been flying cables at all? Recipe for disaster I reckon.

I know I know, " & don't call me shirley"[bighmmm]
Hugh Jars
22nd March 2019, 10:30 AM
The weather has been pretty good in the area the past few days (I’ve been over Woomera a few times. The only cloud was a but of altostratus.
Would imagine if there was weather he could just land...
Sad news...
Old Farang
24th March 2019, 02:32 PM
Depending on how it was rigged to lay either a cable or a messenger line, this type of operation has either very little, OR zero margin for error. RIP.
Old Farang
24th March 2019, 07:31 PM
A bit confusing exactly what he was doing. One report says laying cables, and the following says live maintenance. Either way, as I posted previously, absolutely no room for the slightest error. Did some early development work on power lines back in the 1980's and had no wish to do any more.

News National: Helicopter pilot killed in South Australia crash identified as Kieran Brown (https://www.9news.com.au/2019/03/21/12/46/news-national-helicopter-pilot-died-crash-kieran-brown-queensland-in-south-australia)