Scratch one helicopter 8/24/2023

[fholbert]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694753431834054729

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Date:	24-AUG-2023
Time:	15:42 UTC
Type:	Viking Air DHC-6 Twin Otter 400
Owner/operator:	Air Antilles
Registration:	F-OMYS
MSN:	971
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Category:	Accident
Location:	Saint-Barthélémy-Rémy de Haenen Airport (SBH/TFFJ) - Guadeloupe
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Pointe-à-Pitre-Le Raizet Airport (PTP/TFFR)
Destination airport:	Saint-Barthélémy-Rémy de Haenen Airport (SBH/TFFJ)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Air Antilles flight 3S722, a DHC-6 Twin Otter, veered off the left side of runway 28 on landing at Saint-Barthélémy Airport and struck a parked Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil helicopter (F-HMYL).
F-HMYL had landed at 15:13 UTC following a flight from Anguilla-Wallblake Airport (AXA). No one was on board the helicopter at the time of the accident.

 

[MikeD]

An older AS350B2. Not a huge loss.

 

[ChasenSFO]

lol wot

 

[arkflyr]

An older AS350B2. Not a huge loss.

I still find it funny that that Écureuil is French for squirrel.

 

[Beep]

HEY, YOU CAN’T PARK THERE!

 

[fholbert]

Twin Otter didn’t do well either.

 

[CFI A&P]

Damn! When I saw Viking, I thought it was a new Twotter. Apparently, when one purchases the type certificate for an aircraft type, one also purchases the entire extant fleet, at least from a naming rights standpoint.

Have you heard of the IAI Astra (1125) or Gulfstream G150 ?
Gulfstream Commander or Twin Commander ?
Cessna TTX or the Columbia 400 ?

 

[form810]

I still find it funny that that Écureuil is French for squirrel.

Helo? Squirrel? Makes perfect sense to me!

 

[Beep]

Twin Otter didn’t do well either.

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Judging from the smile on its Face I’d say it seems pretty pleased with the outcome.

 

[ChasenSFO]

Judging from the smile on its Face I’d say it seems pretty pleased with the outcome.

Astute observation. These are facts.

 

[Skåning]

Good. One less helicopter

 

[MikeD]

Good. One less helicopter

View: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6eMacMG6bq8&pp=ygUcZG9uJ3QgeW91IGJsYXNwaGVtZSBpbiBoZXJlIA%3D%3D

 

[Minuteman]

Have you heard of the IAI Astra (1125) or Gulfstream G150 ?
Gulfstream Commander or Twin Commander ?
Cessna TTX or the Columbia 400 ?

Compelled to remind the world of the big brain leadership at two of the largest companies in the world that gave us the Yaborã E175 and how that turned out.

 

[Skåning]

I was reading an article recently and it said Mitsubishi CRJ-200 and I literally made the blinking “what” face

 

[BobDDuck]

I was reading an article recently and it said Mitsubishi CRJ-200 and I literally made the blinking “what” face

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It's technically correct.

 

[mightynimbus]

 

[Richman]

View: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6eMacMG6bq8&pp=ygUcZG9uJ3QgeW91IGJsYXNwaGVtZSBpbiBoZXJlIA%3D%3D

I once tried to order 4 fried chickens and a coke.

It got me about as far as the time I tried to order a Diablo sammich and a doctah peppah. And I was in a goddamn hurry, too.

 

[Minuteman]

That airplane was made when Drew Brees beat Peyton Manning's record for touchdown passes, the House voted to impeach President Trump for obstruction of justice, and the US droned Iranian general Qasem Soleimani.