A 41 - twelvemonth - previous man fly a Gaui X7 model eggbeater in Lucerne , Switzerland suffered head and fortify injuries and died after he was presumablystruckby the chopper . The model weigh 5 pounds , is about 4 feet 5 column inch long , and has a rotor coil diam of about 5 feet 4 inches .
Though incidents are rare , distant control whirlybird have make other deaths . A outside control aircraft instructor was struck and killed in Texas in 2003 and other calamitous accidents have occurred in Korea and Brazil . The rotor coil blades on exemplar helicopters can spin atspeedsof 257 nautical mile per hour . Gaui helicopter can cost more than $ 1,000 and various X7 models arecurrentlysellingfor around $ 900 , so there probably are n’t ton of these just lying around hoi polloi ’s houses , but even expensive toy dog involve realsafety measure . [ The Local ]
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