I happened 1 km from my home. When I past there the road was already blocked by the police.
The rotors of the helicopter must have hit a lightpole while he was trying to land (emergency ?) on a open space nearby.
On the original report on hln.be they also said that there was a gasstation on fire, but this is incorrect... Then again, they also said on hln.be that most trains were running again after 2pm, which was total bs...
Very sad news indeed According to eye-witnesses the pilot tried everything he could to avoid buildings, a gasstation and a school and that he should have an award for bravery!
The operator of the ill-fated aircraft was Rotor & Wing Business.
They operate 2 Robinson R22's (OO-RWB and OO-RWC) and 1 R44 (OO-RWF).
The aircraft was on a photoshoot-mission which is rather dangerous because the aircraft is operated in or nearby the dead-man curve,
in case of an engine-failure very little time is left to perform an auto-rotation...
According to eye-witnesses the pilot tried everything he could to avoid buildings, a gasstation and a school and that he should have an award for bravery!
