Helicopter Incident
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 8:22 pm
So I'm in the man cave last week and hear a chopper approaching from the NE when it makes a very unusual sound. I go out to have a look and it's struggling to climb with a hell of a lot of noise like the engine was really under stress or on full acceleration. As it's climbing it's kind of swinging like a pendulum.
It regains some height as it was extremely low, levels out and flies off southward trailing a small plume of black smoke. I ring WAPOL and DFES to advise them of what I'd seen and they both said to call the other.
I rang because I was worried the pilot would not see the smoke as it was trailing off the rear rotor and that it could become a real emergency....ie. crash.
I live in Craigie and it appeared to be flying back to Jandakot and the thin trail of smoke was obvious as it flew off.
I kept watching until I couldn't really see it anymore, it was the same "type" of chopper as the DFES one, it was black also but with a yellow horizontal stripe along the outside of the cabin.
Do any of the members here know the chopper or have seen it around
Just curious
G
It regains some height as it was extremely low, levels out and flies off southward trailing a small plume of black smoke. I ring WAPOL and DFES to advise them of what I'd seen and they both said to call the other.
I rang because I was worried the pilot would not see the smoke as it was trailing off the rear rotor and that it could become a real emergency....ie. crash.
I live in Craigie and it appeared to be flying back to Jandakot and the thin trail of smoke was obvious as it flew off.
I kept watching until I couldn't really see it anymore, it was the same "type" of chopper as the DFES one, it was black also but with a yellow horizontal stripe along the outside of the cabin.
Do any of the members here know the chopper or have seen it around
Just curious
G