The pilot will remember his first helicopter lessons

Not casting aspersions, the pilot was a Middle-Eastern gentleman who'd just bought the craft and had zero-time in any rotorcraft. An instructor, who was with the owner, told the owner that he was going back to a hangar to get something for their flight and to not touch anything. The pilot nonetheless throttled up and applied collective to lift; unaware of the normal forces generated once off the ground and unable to counteract them correctly, the craft began to rotate wildly, struck tailboom first, rotated more and finally came to rest on its side after a spectacular rotor strike. The owner's friend came to the rescue, witnessing his egress and told the ownerto get away from the craft. Injuries, fortunately, were minor.

Last thing he sid to his buddies before he took off was " Hey you guys, watch this "

I'm sorry but I just can't resist saying "what a fu**'in idiot".

this has to be the worlds funniest air disaster, just for the fact the man had no piloting experience, and thought he'd give it a try. very good.

I have seen a lot of dumb stuff in 20 years of aviation. I have never seen a helicopter owner do something like this. I hope the FAA suspended him for life from aviation. He was just damn lucky to be alive.

I would have been to embarrassed to get out.

To mutch monney , to little braines

Just imagine having to tell your wife what you just did...

This has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever seen done in an aircraft of any type. The jerk bought the chopper and all he had to do was wait for the instructor! By some miracle, no one was hurt and no other aircraft were damaged.