Rock guard behind rotor scraping?
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not any more.
The rotor blade hit Deodat, who was a passenger in the the truck. He suffered fatal injuries.
On Thursday, the helicopter suffered a catastrophic engine failure and made a hard landing on 50th Street at Palm River Road a little before 2:30 p.m. (near Tampa Fl April 5, 2019)
After the hard landing, one of the rotor blades hit a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck that was carrying 72-year-old Deodat Gangapersaud and his son, 35-year-old Ryan Persaud. The rotor blade hit Deodat, who was a passenger in the the truck. He suffered fatal injuries.
The FAA has confirmed the helicopter involved in Thursday's deadly crash also encountered mechanical problems four days before the crash on a Tampa highway that killed a passenger of a pickup truck traveling nearby.
www.abcactionnews.com