M24 "crash" in Italy

[abezzi]

It happened last saturday; looks like the French pilot took off with full trim up and during the climb kept the nose up instaed of trying to push it down. Then when he noticed that was too slow he tried to came back to the airfield but with a tail wind and without any effort from him to change the gyro attitude he started to sink until he "crashed" 100 meters from the runway threshold in a rice field. The quite old pilot came out without any injury...look at this video, is the rescue of the gyro with a Lama helicopter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMh0FKwQyek

[Gyronaut]

Sad to see the broken M24 but good to see that it is mostly still intact! Says something for the construction methinks!

Training, Training, Training... Airspeed Airspeed Airspeed.

I rest my case

PS. With regard to the fatal accident in the UK recently, I have it on good authority that "the AAIB have concluded that the accident was due to pilot error."

Not sure what that means yet, did the pilot make an error by getting out of bed that morning?