This is a cheerful one for your evening nightcap.
Even though it is about a helicopter crash, all’s well that ends well, which hasn’t happened a lot lately.
Most importantly, it didn’t happen in the United States, which is one less thing our Transportation Secretary has to worry about.
Now for the story as the crash investigation just wrapped up.
Back in mid-January, a South African R44 helicopter, a popular four-seat, pretty versatile bird…
…The R44 has been the world’s best-selling general aviation (GA) helicopter every year since 1999. It is one of the most-produced GA aircraft of the 21st century, with 5,941 deliveries from 2001 to 2020.
…had three passengers onboard and flown out to something called Bird Island, a nature reserve off the Eastern Cape of South Africa, for a specialist to do an aerial survey.
When the aerial work was done, the pilot…
