Author Topic: incredible helicopter crash (Read 1457 times)

tapakeg · « **on:** May 05, 2004, 08:36:49 PM »

It takes a little while, but they do show the helicopter crash. VERY lucky all survived. Pilot did a good job of bringing it in over a residential neighborhood.

helicopter crash

Otto · « **Reply #1 on:** May 05, 2004, 09:04:11 PM »

I'm glad they're safe but I just want to scream when I hear News Readers talk about anything involving Aviation.

Quote: "The 'Chopper Nosedived......" Aaaaah!

Any chance he could have said: "The helicopter departed controlled flight.."

In my dreams.....

Mini D · « **Reply #2 on:** May 05, 2004, 09:43:01 PM »

Wow... glad they made it out allive. I hope they're not too badly injured.

MiniD

Dinger · « **Reply #3 on:** May 05, 2004, 09:48:19 PM »

Looks like they autorotated, pulled up too soon, and had a lucky clip there

mora · « **Reply #4 on:** May 06, 2004, 01:52:48 AM »

Tail rotor failure.

tapakeg · « **Reply #5 on:** May 06, 2004, 02:10:57 AM »

For a tail rotor failure at that low of speed he sure had good control. Would think that he would be spinning round and round. It did seem that he did nose it over at one point to gain fwd. airspeed.

tapakeg

mora · « **Reply #6 on:** May 06, 2004, 04:31:14 AM »

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Originally posted by tapakeg
For a tail rotor failure at that low of speed he sure had good control. Would think that he would be spinning round and round. tapakeg

He was.

Virage · « **Reply #7 on:** May 06, 2004, 05:10:14 AM »

Man, I don't trust helicopters. Too many moving parts.

Swoop · « **Reply #8 on:** May 06, 2004, 05:12:25 AM »

You remember those over acted news report scenes they did for Robocop? That's what this reminds me of. Are all American news reports like this?

Questions:

What on earth was that fat blond girl on about? Wonder what was going through the minds of the people on board, she says? What rubbish. "Oooo you just want to help!" Tripe. You just want to be on TV darlin'.

Why on earth would anyone in their right mind want to tune into a news program later on to see the heavy crane being used to remove the wreck? In Britain this would be a 2 minute news report, no interviews with numpties pretending to be concerned, no returning to the site later to see the crane, no bollocks.

Saintaw · « **Reply #9 on:** May 06, 2004, 06:08:35 AM »

right, no bollocks, you'll only have bollocks if mrs posh is aboard

Swoop · « **Reply #10 on:** May 06, 2004, 07:27:15 AM »

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Originally posted by Saintaw
right, no bollocks, you'll only have bollocks if mrs posh is aboard

Exactly.

But can you imagine the American bollocks if Britney Spears was on it?

We wouldn't hear the end of it for months.

RTR · « **Reply #11 on:** May 06, 2004, 08:18:02 AM »

Looks like 3 very lucky people.

Also looks like the tail rotor was turning in the video, although it's hard to tell.

RTR

LePaul · « **Reply #12 on:** May 06, 2004, 10:26:39 AM »

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Originally posted by Swoop
You remember those over acted news report scenes they did for Robocop? That's what this reminds me of. Are all American news reports like this?

Let's trade.

We get your Page 3 Nudie pic, you get Dan Rather and all the aspiring over-reaction news anchor wanna-bes!

rpm · « **Reply #13 on:** May 06, 2004, 11:36:09 AM »

The tail rotor was spinning, but I think he lost power and had to autorotate. If you look closely both the rotors seem to be losing speed. After the crash you can still see the engine exhaust, transmission failure?

mora · « **Reply #14 on:** May 06, 2004, 12:26:29 PM »

It's hard to say from the video, but the pilot had mentioned that he lost tailrotor, not engine power.