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On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:30:44 -0500, "Kevin Brooks"
wrote: John, you might be able to answer a question I have regarding autorotations. My late brother experienced exactly one serious mishap in a helo (outside getting shot down once in Vietnam and having various small arms rounds zing through the cabin on other occasions). It involved an autorotation in a Schweizer 300C (read as Hughes 300/TH-55). He was checking out a cop from the (unnamed big city) police department, which had recently purchased a couple of 300C's for law enforcement work. Apparently the cop, who was also a part-time ARNG Cobra pilot, had come through flight school during the post-TH-55 days. During the autorotation, the guy apparently treated the 300C like it was a Cobra, which I gather is a bad thing to do, and when my brother tried to take back over the guy froze up and fought the controls--resulting in a hard landing and rolling the aircraft onto its side (he compounded that by stomping all over my brother, who was left on the lower side, in his haste to depart the now-stationary aircraft). Any idea what the guy could have done that led to my brother trying to take control? And FYI--the accident investigation cleared my brother in the incident, so I gather that his side of the story was the way it happened. Kevin, I've been talking about this with a well-know Vietnam-era cav pilot and he says that there's not a whole lot of difference between a TH-55/Hughes 300 "Mattel Messerschmitt" as far as autorotation. The Cobra flares higher and longer, and TH-55s level the skids prior to touchdown. He says it sounds like a late "recovery" to him. If you have a date and location we could dig out the NTSB accident report and see what the official cause was. John Hairell |
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