What my point is and has been all along.... media can say anything, you can believe he took off, had a power loss, managed to fly back to the strip, brushed some trees (50-100 yards away) then had a heavy landing accident after brushing the trees.... and hardly damaged the rotors at all.... I am actually beginning to think it is a staged insurance job, tip the machine over, tell the insurance company it was a flying accident and claim insurance.....

There is nothing wrong with annoying orange Lofty? I am sure you check it over before flying.... it is an excellent machine..... the red one in my pic clipped rotors with another machine, no one knows how hard a life the yellow one in the thread suffered? It might have had a complete animal pilot who bashed the nosewheel on everything.... the rotors may have been 2000 hours old? Who knows

Think about this..... if someone has a euro tub, someone they know has just rolled one and bent the blades and broken the propeller and nosewheel and a few bits.... take the good rotors and prop off your good machine, bolt the bent ones and broken prop on, tip the machine on its side, carefully, to not damage anything, call the emergency rescue, take some photos, claim $40K insurance, bolt your good rotors/prop/tail back on.... go for a fly and think about how to spend the $40K (and change insurance company)

good scheme