A 24-year-old man died after a helicopter he was building developed a glitch and one of the blades fell on his head in Maharashtra's Yavatmal district, police said.

The incident took place in Fulsavangi village in Mahagaon taluka late on Tuesday night (August 10), when Sheikh Ismail Sheikh Ibrahim, a mechanic, was testing his helicopter in his workshop, an official said. The deceased had been building the helicopter on his own since the last two years, he said.