Dunshaughlin Helicopter resuce and removal

Muineach

Hi all,
This started off in another thread so I though I'd give it a proper title. You may have seen the photos in the news/papers but they were the RAW images (unprocessed), I've now processed them all and added in some interesting shots from the removal of the helicopter. Click on the photo below to view the new set.

It's not that often that you'll see a picture like this

nilhg

The pilot is a lucky guy to have survived that, I can't see the helicopter having much secondhand value.......


I'd say you have had your quota of excitment for this week.....


Well done with the shots BTW, well up to pro standard IMHO.

City-Exile

nilhg wrote: »

...The pilot is a lucky guy to have survived that, I can't see the helicopter having much secondhand value...

Just show potential buyers this side & you'd get a few bob for it alright.

Borderfox

Great shots and from what the papers and news are saying the Pilot did well to miss buildings in the village...

bradnailer

Nice shots,it must have been a fairly controlled crash, did you talk to anyone that saw it going down ?

Muineach

No one actually saw it go down, I was asking around and the usual people with the gossip and they didn't see it. From looking at the helicopter, I'd say he came down first with the tail (pic), then the impact forced it to topple over onto the the left side, which was then covered in mud and the propellers broke on the ground while spinning. The cabin was intact, no marks on the front nose cone (pic). When it was put on the trailer all of the wheels were working and held the helicopter up, so I reckon he came down, not realising it was a bog, the wheels dug into the bog and the momentum ended up tilting it over to the left and then the blades broke off.
That's my take on it, I've been watching far too much "seconds from disaster" on discovery :rolleyes:

I was looking at the flickr stats, last week I has 218 views, yesterday I got 4,803 and up to Thursday I got 6,863, so it's over the 10k for the week

Dink

Well done with those shots! Air Crash Investigations wouldn't get a look in with you!

rymus

spotted the shot in the Irish Times alright. Well done!

Muineach

hmm Times went with another pic ? you can see the nose cone. If there are any people being rescued, it was mine, this today's paper ?

rymus

no, not todays.. I'll have another looksee if I can find the paper. There must have been someone else hiding in the bushes wth a camera

Muineach

and I checked all of yesterdays papers, I was talking to the irish times guy that came out, they were all about 1 hour to late, so all the got was a photo of the wreck in the field. Thanks

Covey

Well done on getting these published.

You must post up a "how to" for anyone who gets lucky and grabs similar type shots. I'm sure time is the all important factor.

i think given the foxes and the helicopter we should have the next boards meet in the field behind Muineach's house:D

Muineach

first off thank's to thimblefull, he got me in touch with the star newspaper.
thimblefull suggested that I would put a small version up on flickr and send the link off to e-mails below, then if they're interested they will call you back and ask for photo x.

That's why I had the unprocessed photo's up on flickr, which really annoyed me, lots of people around me saw them up there, I hate letting photo's loose without any processing, hence the new set.

I ended up sending the links to:

Meath papers
tebitto@indigo.ie
villagepapers@eircom.net
ken@meathchronicle.ie

As for the local papers I have two interested, they run a weekly edition, but they're not back in until Tuesday.

National TV
newsdesk@rte.ie
news@tv3.ie

National Papers
herald.news@independent.ie
I had other e-mails from the independent site, but they just bounced back.
Irish Times - I met the photographer outside my house and showed him what I have, he was ftp'ing it up to the Irish times site, where I don't know. I should have gotten an e-mail address for future reference, and they're site didn't reveal any address's at all.

Fionn

hey good work!!
i remember i got the door incident in Salthill Airshow last year but didn't get back home to Tipp to get the photos out to anybody and sorta lost out i suppose! but there ya go - you gotta be in the right place at the right time and get the photos out to the right peeps!!!