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There's apparently surveillance footage of it. Wonder if it's as quick and brutal as people getting sucked into the turbofan engine of a commercial airplane.
Yep. Vanderbilt hospital in Nashville had a janitor helping out when they were slammed.
He was helping the crew remove a patient from their lifeflight helicopter and backed onto the tail rotor, splitting his skull in half.
 
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I wonder if the helicopter had to be put out of service or was it mechanically OK.
20 or so years ago my dad was part of some employee response team at his job. One of their training exercises involved prepping a landing area for a life flight helicopter. They worked in conjunction with the local FD as part of the training. There were all kinds of rules concerning how you moved around the chopper... because if someone got into the tail rotor, the craft was no longer considered airworthy until it could be inspected and deemed worthy of returning to service. I'm pretty sure that comes down from the FAA.

So any incident could potentially cost 2 lives... One being the person who got chopped up... The other being the person whom the helicopter was called for... 'cause that chopper was going nowhere.

I don't know how "substantial" the object has to be before the grounding rule applies... Like if a plastic grocery bag or similar makes contact... But I know for certain a human being getting "schwacked" is sufficient to cause the craft to be grounded.

Thats the policy here in the US. I can't speak to other country's policies.

Mike
 
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