Accident location on track: "Devil's Elbow" (final turn before finishing line).
Age: 22 (at time of accident, means born in 1942 or -3).
Lived in Rotherham, Yorkshire.
Vehicle number 17.
Died from head injuries at Leicester Royal Infirmary on unknown date.
Photographer David Hudson for tabloid Daily Sketch, 29 March, 1965.
Gives age of victims (different spelling of one surname), and circumstances of accident. They crashed 200 metres down a ravine. They don't even fall that far off of K2. Pretty horrible. I'll send this to Nanni for whatever it's worth.
In May 1984, what remains today the most severe helicopter accident in the history of Finland occurred at the track during a race. The pilot lost control of his helicopter while landing and crashed into an audience area, resulting in five spectators dead and 26 injured.[4]
Link in footnote unfortunately dead.
Video:
Details:
Date of accident May 6, 1984.
4 or 5 people killed, 2 women, one man, one boy (9yo), and one unknown. Possibly, one victim died later from burns.
Pilot (who survived) lost control whilst landing, due to gust of wind. Apparently, after or at the end of some sort of display, held simultaneously with race.
Race called off after accident, rest of event cancelled.
Location: Hämeenlinna or Tavastehus (Swedish name), Finland.
This accident remains the worst involving a helicopter, in the history of Finnish aviation.
My newspaper source: Danish newspaper Aarhuus* Stiftstidende, May 7, 1984 pp. 1-2.
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* = Not a typo, Århus was spelled Aarhuus, in the old-fashioned way.
Was already in there, the related case section is also subdivided.
Jesper Hvid wrote: ↑6 years ago
It does not alter in the least the moral obligation of the person ultimately in charge of this site to ensure its stability.
PTRACER, is there a way to secure this entire database, as you did formula2.net?
Jesper Hvid wrote: ↑6 years ago
It does not alter in the least the moral obligation of the person ultimately in charge of this site to ensure its stability.
PTRACER, is there a way to secure this entire database, as you did formula2.net?
Jesper Hvid wrote: ↑6 years ago
It does not alter in the least the moral obligation of the person ultimately in charge of this site to ensure its stability.
PTRACER, is there a way to secure this entire database, as you did formula2.net?
@PTRACER
Sadly not.
It's copy & paste then?
Yes. I'm afraid with everything going on in my life currently, I wouldn't have time to get involved with it myself. If Sal wants to hand over the database and website files I will host them, but beyond that...
Fair enough, the main thing is he doesn't let it slip away, and I don't imagine he will, but things untoward may happen to the best of us, and there probably is no back-up of this. We need direct communication with Sal. I'll set up something.
The Danish fatal rallysprint accident yesterday has been submitted by me, via private mail, as I now get a 403-error when submitting cases via the research form!
Will gather all visual media and post in relevant topic.