R22 Incident/Crash due to drone encounter in Charleston, SC

NovemberEcho said:
To be fair, in this incident it's very possible the drone was perfectly legal to be there. (I don't know the area though)
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Airspace-wise, you are correct. The accident area is > 5 miles from KCHS and while it’s under the outer Class C ring, that starts at 1200 ft AGL.


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Not buying it. An instructional flight so close to the surface that the helo impacted “a brush or small tree” (yet adjacent to a residential neighborhood), and they’re blaming it on a drone despite a total lack of evidence?
 
Unrelated to this event, but earlier this evening I heard a helicopter report to the approach controller that they encountered multiple drones operating at 700' agl near the traffic pattern to a non-towered airport. As much as I want to stay with innocent until proven guilty, more and more people do dumb stuff with these drones and make it harder to think they are innocent.
 
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NovemberEcho said:
Drone operator probably never even knew the helicopter was there
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I don't know about you, but if for some reason my drone didn't come back, I'd go looking for it especially since they cost a good bit of money. The fact that no one showed up to claim it, means they probably already knew what happened. Not saying they were malicious, but definitely cowardly.
 
tomokc said:
Not buying it. An instructional flight so close to the surface that the helo impacted “a brush or small tree” (yet adjacent to a residential neighborhood), and they’re blaming it on a drone despite a total lack of evidence?
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Confined space operations are a testing requirement on the Rotorcraft-Helicopter PTS even at the private pilot level. Looking at Daniel Island with satellite view on google maps, their being there doesn't seem too far fetched
 
DogwoodLynx said:
I don't know about you, but if for some reason my drone didn't come back, I'd go looking for it especially since they cost a good bit of money. The fact that no one showed up to claim it, means they probably already knew what happened. Not saying they were malicious, but definitely cowardly.
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It doesn't say anything about the helicopter hitting the drone. The pilot said he saw a drone, took evasive maneuvers into a tree, and that's it.
 
EAD said:
Confined space operations are a testing requirement on the Rotorcraft-Helicopter PTS even at the private pilot level. Looking at Daniel Island with satellite view on google maps, their being there doesn't seem too far fetched
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I agree, the southern end of the island appears very remote, but the story described the crash site as “near Daniel Island Drive and Village Crossing Drive.” That’s the suburban neighborhood.
 
DogwoodLynx said:
I never said it hit anything.
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I didn't say you did. You launched into specifics about the drone crashing and the operator leaving it behind: "The fact that no one showed up to claim it, means they probably already knew what happened. Not saying they were malicious, but definitely cowardly."
 
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