Aerial Machine Roosts on Unwilling Car

A helicopter, perhaps suffering from an excess of enthusiasm or a deficiency of common sense, attempted to perch upon an unsuspecting automobile at the North Las Vegas Airport on Sunday night, resulting in what the authorities are delicately referring to as a “crash.”

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), ever diligent in its post-mortems of mechanical misadventures, informs us that three souls were aboard the ambitious contraption when it made its ill-advised descent around the hour of nine. North Las Vegas police, in an earlier statement, claimed the mishap occurred during takeoff—a suggestion since overruled by the FAA, which insists the event was a landing gone wrong.

One must admire the audacity of the machine to fail in such a way as to baffle the very officials meant to explain it.

At least one crew member sustained serious injuries, though the extent of the misfortune remains unspecified. News cameras recorded a gathering of emergency vehicles outside a hangar, suggesting that the incident caused a commotion of some significance.

Further details are, at present, as elusive as a coyote on the prairie, but rest assured, if this flying contraption takes another stab at land-based travel, the authorities will no doubt be on hand to witness the spectacle.