TEENAGER FLYING A REMOTE CONTROL HELICOPTER GETS HIS HEAD CHOPPED OFF BY THE BLADES

ROMAN PIROZEK

A teenage model helicopter enthusiast was killed today when the blades of one of his remote-controlled copters scalped him in a Brooklyn park, sources said.
Roman Pirozek, 19, was flying the chopper at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, when he lost control of the toy aircraft around 3:40 p.m., law enforcement source told the media.

The aircraft boomeranged and sliced off the top of his head – while a handful of his friends watch in horror.

“I was playing at the park and we came into the clearing and we just saw a body on the floor, he was just decapitated, the whole top of his head was gone,” said Maria Delgado, 13.

The park, near Shore Parkway and Bay 44th Street, is a sanctioned flying field by the Academy of Model Aeronautics.

The young model flyer was the vice president of the Seaview Rotary Wings club and had his own YouTube channel where he was featured in many videos of his flights.

In April, he wrote on his channel page, that his new blades “feel more stable and can handle the sudden and harsh maneuvers very well, and they are also very agile and smooth.”

Just last month he posted that he was “loving” his Trex 700N model — “ one of the best nitros that I have ever flown with so much power.”

Toy helicopters have been known to cause injuries. Last month, a Swiss man was reportedly killed by a five-pound toy aircraft.

The speed of the model’s rotor blade can spin up to 257 miles per hour.