Originally Posted by new to trains

crashed my little eleccy trainer last night- big style.....think its a write off !
having collected the bits and inspected them concerned to see one of the pins from the battery connector had come adrift.... so the electrical supply to motor and radio was interrupted..... i presume this happened whilst in flight rather than the impact...maybe there was some vibration that caused the terminal to work loose... never was a fan of the tamiya type connectors anyway...... but i suppose its a learning curve !- wont use em again !!!!but this would explain the plane going 'dead' whilst in flight......

oh well, the motors ok, the radio is ok, so not a total wreck !