Microsoft FSX promo Helico crash near Paris yesterday (18Sept 2006)Apparently, hydrolics and rear rotor failure.Sorry, but the news is in Frenchhttp://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/31474-Si...helicoptere.htm

Translation from Google"A demonstration of press organized by Microsoft to promote its play of simulation Flight Simulator X turned to the crash landing, yesterday, close to Paris. The five passengers of the apparatus and the pilot left themselves there unscathed, but they came very close to death.The history starts yesterday morning, four journalists venture in a helicopter chartered especially by Microsoft to make there the demonstration of Flight Simulator X, a play in which the goal is

Merde!Always knew their helicopters were unflyable.John

I'm glad everyone came out ok.What really gets me, tdragger said on his blog on Friday that he was going to Europe this week to present FSX to the press.

So I guess tdragger was there, then? Of course Europe, I guess it could have been anywhere, not necessarily Paris.RhettAMD 3700+, eVGA 7800GT 256, ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2 GB Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8, etc. etc.

I was there but arrived safely.

>I was there but arrived safely.Good news, man. I'm glad to hear it.By the way, I kept thinking Mike Z was you throughout most of the AVSIM conference.