Chopper crash lands at UCT in Cape Town

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http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Chopper-crash-lands-at-UCT-in-Cape-Town-reports-20110803

Cape Town - A helicopter has apparently crash landed at the University of Cape Town's campus on Wednesday.

The cause of the accident was unknown but a Facebook user was quoted as saying that it "crashed at middle campus. I saw it spinning around and it was touching the trees. Then it just dissapeared and went boom (sic)."

Campus security told News24 on Wednesday morning that the chopper went down at about 09:00.

A Baxter Theatre staffer en route to her office said emergency vehicles were seen rushing to the scene.

Police were reluctant to comment when contacted by News24, saying only that the helicopter had made "a landing".

The pilot was injured in the crash, ER24 told News24.
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That's a good landing, the pilot can walk away from it. A brilliant landing is where you can use the helicopter again.
 
My bro works on middle campus. Says he walked past there a minute before it happened and watched it all take place.

Waiting on an update about the pilot.
 
Shame man, I've lost a couple of friends in helicopter and light aircraft accidents. Hope he will be ok.
 
UCT just posted "emergency landing". Apparantly it clipped some trees and then tried landing.
 
Oh wow... I live really close to UCT.

Between the hospitals, mountain rescues and joyrides we have quite a lot of helicopter traffic. Accidents like this are bound to happen
 
I love how in all the photos taken - ER24 and Cape Town Fire & Rescue (CTFES) are seen just standing there watching.

Looks so bad. :)
 
Voicy said:
roflcopter! :p
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It appears it was a Robinson R44 (4 seater) and the engine lost power. They clipped the trees and flipped over before landing on the campus.

In cases like this there are often multiple back injuries. Perhaps by landing on it's side or roof, the impact was lessened. Scary nevertheless for people below.
 
Well it's a 6-cylinder fuel injected internal combustion engine (not a turbine). Same principle as a car, so same problems.
 
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