This fascinating photo was sent by a fellow T210 pilot:
The pilot of this (now totaled) helicopter was trying to taxi past a maintenance hangar when his rotors cut into the hangar doors. This shredded the doors, rolled the aircraft over, and blew shrapnel through the hangar into several aircraft parked inside, including a jet.
It wasn’t a small whirlybird, either. It was a 9 month-old Eurocopter AS-365 Dauphin worth more than $4 million. Lord only knows what the cost will be to repair the hangar and other damaged aircraft.
Moral of the story: most accidents happen on the ground, not in the air. In fact, I believe the worst aviation accident in history was a ground mishap (I intentionally exclude 9/11 because that wasn’t an accident). Two 747s collided on the ground at Tenerife Island in 1977, killing 583 people.
Yeah, that’s the kind of mistake you only make ONCE.
Not to mention all the people that walk into propeller blades. Yikes!