Serial | 000171 | |||||||||||||||
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First Flight | 07.05.80 | |||||||||||||||
Model | Lynx AH.1 | |||||||||||||||
Status | Written-off | |||||||||||||||
Comments | w/o 17.09.86 when crashed in Pyrénées after suffering turbulence at high altitude on flight from Faillagouse Aviation Mountain Training School. The a/c was on a training exercise manoeuvring over rocky terrain when the tail rotor clipped an outcrop of rock. The loss of control resulted in the aircraft falling near-vertically down a mountain gulley before being destroyed in a post-crash fire. | |||||||||||||||
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