Pilot Killed By His own Helicopter

[VOLT]

Leichenfund in Mauensee LU : Mann (41) von Modell-Heli getötet

[Jamin_00]

Holy crap, thats why its not safe to fly on your own

A Gaui X7 in your head

[sooren]

I have copied the article in google translate so this is what it reads in English. - Very Scary!

Mauensee - LU - A walker found yesterday in Mauensee LU a dead man's body had severe head injuries. Next to it was a model helicopter.

Yesterday, a 41-year-old man was found dead in Mauensee LU. The investigation authorities believe that he has suffered fatal injuries when operating a model helicopter.

A walker reported to the police that he had discovered in the area in moss Mauensee a corpse. As the Sursee prosecutor announced today that the deceased had severe injuries to his head and arm.

The helicopter of the type Formula Gaui X7 was secured by the police near the body. When deceased is a 41-year-old man from the canton of Nidwalden.

The circumstances of the accident and the cause of death to be clarified. The investigation leads the Sursee prosecution. (SDA

[ghost2212]

Sad news to hear but if anyone doesn't think a 700 is capable of killing you quite easily then stop kidding yourself. It's a risk we decide to take every time we fly and we should make other people in the surrounding area aware of it too.

[jwatts007]

What a horrendous thing too happen to a fellow rc enthusiast ...poor fella....

[r4nd0m]

well, definitely not a newbie:

too lazy to translate it myself - so google

Of model helicopter shredded - 41-year-old dead
A 41-year-old man has been hurt by his model helicopter so hard on the head and arm, that he died instantly. The body was discovered by hikers in Mauensee.

On Wednesday evening, a 41-year-old man was found dead in Mauensee LU. A walker had reported to police on Wednesday night that he had discovered in the area in moss Mauensee a corpse. As the Sursee prosecutor announced on Thursday, the deceased had severe injuries to the head and arm.

The injuries were caused by helicopter, as the Lucerne prosecutor confirmed on request.

Heli ensure
The helicopter of the type Formula Gaui X7 was secured by the police near the body. When deceased is a 41-year-old man from the canton of Nidwalden.

As Simon Kopp, Media Agent of Lucerne prosecutor told the man was an experienced model helicopter pilot. According to information from the environment of this man have participated in the past several times in competitions.

The circumstances of the accident and the cause of death to be clarified. The investigation leads the Sursee prosecution.

20 Minuten - Von Modell-Heli zerfetzt – br 41-Jähriger tot - Zentralschweiz

[KevDavies]

Im amazed its not happened before tbh!! I never fly alone for this reason. Anything 450 and above will kill you. We just use best safe practises and normally theyre very safe. RIP heli dude!

[heli]

Truly sad day...but from reading the comments we're maybe talking about a pro sponsored pilot.

[SamS]

Horrible thing to happen .. Can't imagine what the accident would have looked like

Also things like this put such a bad press on the hobby, it's only a matter of time before they ban it :/

[Varelco]

Poor guy that's terrible you know that these things can hurt you but never think of them killing you.

If he was a pro or an advanced pilot, I wonder if he flew like the other pros do, I.e 10 feet in front of them, regardless of their compteancy if you have a mechanical failure that close you have no time to react. Just speculating obviously but it does stick in the mind.

[r4nd0m]

Horrible thing to happen .. Can't imagine what the accident would have looked like

Also things like this put such a bad press on the hobby, it's only a matter of time before they ban it :/

do they ban cars or motorbikes where people die every day? no ... however I wonder if a helmet like a street biker helmet would help in such a case?

[Jamin_00]

This is on FB from MTTEC. Not related to this I think but

ATTENTION!

With some doubt, we consider the rapidly developing model helicopter scene. For example everyone who followed the Helimasters 2013 closely, will be able to clearly see that the flights increasingly becoming a battle of pure material. The accepted risk of some pilots was much too big, in our view. It's not just a shame about the high quality material, which is in this case very affected, but also a too big risk for pilots and spectators. Too small distances between the model and pilot, especially during high speeds manouvers makes us serious concern. It's only a matter of time until accidents happen, which - as we hope - will go out happy.

As a consequence, we believe it is necessary to limit the headspeeds flown by 700size helicopters to 2200 revolutions per minute. We will instruct all our pilots to keep a safe distance of at least 7 m (more is always better). Some risk will always be present, but we can not agree with us to risk the life of the mostly very young pilots. We will accept some competitive disadvantages with a smile by simply no longer operate at the limits.

The durability and performance of our models is already proven more than adequate and certainly needs no demonstration of extreme headspeeds of over 2600 rpm. We can only ask you, the customer, not to follow the hype of extreme headspeeds and willingly accepted security risks.

Jürgen Karg and Sebastian Zajonz

[Varelco]

Also things like this put such a bad press on the hobby, it's only a matter of time before they ban it :/

On what grounds would you ban it? People get killed in many sports unfortunately, they don't get banned do they.

[tomatwalden]

Horrible to read. I'm always conscious of the danger of large model helis, but something like this really sobers you up a bit.

[ModelGuard.Com]

Re: Pilot Killed By His own Helicopter

You need one like the security delivery guys with padding all around the neck in case of truncheon attack