ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A helicopter carrying guides and guests on a heli-skiing excursion north of Anchorage slammed into a mountain and then rolled downhill hundreds of feet, killing the pilot and four of the five passengers, officials said Monday.
Among the dead in the Saturday evening crash was billionaire Petr Kellner, the richest man in the Czech Republic. The survivor, identified as David Horvath, 48, of the Czech Republic, was listed in serious condition Monday, said Mike Canfield, a spokesman at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage.
The chartered helicopter, an Airbus AS350 B3, was “conducting heli-ski operations in an area of steep and remote terrain within the Chugach Mountains near Knik Glacier,” National Transportation Safety Board member Tom Chapman said Monday during a briefing with reporters. more
He’s no longer a billionaire, he’s dead and can’t enjoy any of his billions. He’s done. Once you’re gone, you leave everything behind.
Helicopters have replaced the Beechcraft Bonanza. Billionaires are opting for helicopters over Dr Killers.
This guy was a heck of a guy from Vashon
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2010/02/15/daily1.html
You can czech off one more billionaire.
Why couldn’t it of been a gates or a dorsey!?!?!
Why!?!
Or a zuckerburg!
One of the years I was in the service (during peacetime) ALL of the service related deaths were from helicopter accidents.
So I just won’t get into a helicopter.
Helicopter crashes. The great equalizer.
^^ Helicopters: 20 hours of maintenance for one hour of flying. And then you die anyway.
What a way to go. All his money couldnt keep him safe.
When my wealthy miser neighbor died they cremated him. His urn only contained his ashes. He left all his money here.
You could say that this billionaire is now a canceled Czech.