Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
By the sound of things, it was entirely out of control and he couldn't 'steer' anything.

Helicopters strike me as fundamentally unsound and un-airworthy objects. What was it someone said? 'All the aerodynamic qualities of a housebrick' or similar?

I also wonder whether the multi-millionaire community have ever done a proper risk assessment on the whole business of flying about in helicopters. They do seem to drop out of the sky with relative regularity.
"A million nuts and bolts vibrating in close formation."

"Helicopters only fly because they are so ugly the ground repels them."

Real pilots tend not to like them much. Nasty, inelegant beasts.