Helicopter Flat Spin Crash

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  optick1 - 2 years ago

  THEY WAS HIGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: and drunk! and got totally wasted!!!!!!!!

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  Arkbird87 - 2 years ago

  that was awesome: new helicopter: $250,000, replacing pair of soiled pants $40, walking away form a copter crash in an urban area... pricless.

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    opieman07 - 2 years ago

    @Arkbird87$250,000???: bargain!! try $2,000,000

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  struks99 - 2 years ago

  misdiagnosed: All this guy did was misdiagnosed his emergency. He thought he had a tailrotor failure when he really had a hydraulic failure. When the hydraulics fail in that aircraft the pedals lock up immediately. Then eventually all his controls locked up when he used the rest of his hydraulic fluid in the system

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  demko_inc - 2 years ago

  i stand corrected: http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief

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  demko_inc - 2 years ago

  Sorry: but the pilot lost engine power, when the pilot loses engine power he goes into whats called an "auto- rotation" where the pilot dumps the collective to maintain rotor speed so he can land softly or rather softer than he would if he pulled up on the collective trying to keep it in the air...

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  SuperGenious - 2 years ago

  Army pilots are the funniest peoples!: This was a hydraulic failure. I don't think you heard me. Somtetimes you have to pound it in their heads. No tail rotor failure or the aircraft would be spinning on power application at the bottom. He has not pulled the fuel flow control lever back yet.

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  STUPIDAZZKIDZ - 2 years ago

  SHOWOFFS!: HAHA LOOKED LIOKE FUN!!

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  bugmenever - 2 years ago

  I know the pilot: There is this guy who is a gardner at the university I go to. I work at a help desk and I helped him make that video on a MAC because it was his brother who was the pilot! Small world

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  Tiez - 2 years ago

  remembers: this clip reminds me of the crazy guy that said a rouge helicopter pilot is shaking my house just thought i would put this here

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  ghengis - 2 years ago

  this: is old

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  badger777 - 2 years ago

  Glad they walked away: Last heard on the radio "ok Mr Wonder you can take the controls now....."

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  p8ntballer91 - 2 years ago

  wow: saw this 2 years ago but great film.

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  dstrcto - 2 years ago

  I totally blew that one: damn, she was on channel 6...

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  dstrcto - 2 years ago

  Channel 4 news?: Wait, where was April O'Neal?

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  JudgeJudy - 2 years ago

  wat a slick move!: blood awsome. it is almost impossible to regain control after got knock over by the turbulence. and the piolt acutally manage to perform a save way for landing. it's incredible how human subconscious is under great pressure of life threatening.

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  MRDaHut - 2 years ago

  oh and the other issue: HE was flying so low that he did not have enough time to correct

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  MRDaHut - 2 years ago

  NOT Fake: I live out on the island in NY this was pertty big news for a few days. And no no-one last there job actualy the pilot recieved a commendation. It was mix of 2 issues he had remaind stable near the air space of another helo, when the other one went to shift to prevent negative ariflow it washed the rotors on this guy.

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  dev_ownd - 2 years ago

  not to be a downer here but..: did that look a little fake to anyone besides me????

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  PDBreske - 2 years ago

  Clarification: Just to clarify, an autorotating helicopter can't fly around all day - he is still forced to land RIGHT NOW, just like a fixed-wing plane with an engine failure.

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  PDBreske - 2 years ago

  I am a pilot (con't): Sorry about all the typos. :)

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  PDBreske - 2 years ago

  I am a pilot (con't): explain them all, but this guy did a pretty good job of landing in a crowded urban area considering how quickly and awkwardly he was coming down.

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  PDBreske - 2 years ago

  I am a pilot (con't): reversing the pitch of the blades so instead of pushing air down they allow the wind to rush upwards and turn the blades when powered flight isn't possible. As long as the blades are turning there is control. The tail rotor is connected to the main rotor via a transmission, and you will have tail rotor control as long as the main rotor is turning (with the exception of the already-mentioned tail rotor failure). There are so many aerodynamic principles involved in helicopter flight

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  PDBreske - 2 years ago

  I am a pilot (con't): available. Autorotations are only correct when the engine(s) fail or when the TR completely stops working (or falls off). For all you who don't know what an autorotation is, helicopters have the ability to maintain flight just like a fixed-wing airplane when they lose power. They don'tjust fallout of the sky like some people think. Of course, there are malfunctions that can cause a helicopter to plummet to the ground like a rock, but this isn't the result of engine failure. Aut

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  PDBreske - 2 years ago

  I am a pilot (con't): to assist with the controls. Landing is espcially hard, although straight-and-level flight can be done fairly esaily depending on the airspeed. If he been in a high hover whenthe malfunction occurred, I doubt he would have been able to easily regain normal flight before crashing. In the event of hydraulic failure, entering an autorotation wouldn't have been the correct emergency procedure as he still would have tail rotor control and thus the anti-torque (yaw control) provided by

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  PDBreske - 2 years ago

  I am a pilot: I was a Blackhawk pilot for seven years in the Army and after watching this video frame-by-frame, it's very difficult to tell exactly what happened to make the pilot lose control. The footage is poor quality, so I can't tell if the tail rotor is missing or still spinning, but I can say that it is not simply stopped rotating as it would be if there had been a problem in the tail rotor drivetrain. A hydraulic failure is possible. A pilot would have difficulty flying any modern helicopter wi

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