3 very interesting Helicopter Landing Crash Videos

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3 very interesting Helicopter Crash Videos on one page.
I guess landing is most critical, or is it ? All accidents here
happened at the landing.
http://www.jumpingpixels.com/helicoptercrash.html

[Steve R]

"The OTHER Kevin in San Diego" <skiddz "AT" adelphia "DOT" net> wrote in
message ...
> On 30 Mar 2006 15:19:36 -0800, wrote:
>
>>3 very interesting Helicopter Crash Videos on one page.
>>I guess landing is most critical, or is it ? All accidents here
>>happened at the landing.
>>http://www.jumpingpixels.com/helicoptercrash.html
>
> 1st one looks like a tail rotor strike or failure as the tail rotor
> isn't spinning after the 1st half turn. Wonder what happened to the
> crew member who bailed/got ejected.....
>
> 2nd one was pure pilot error.. Came in too fast and too low, got hung
> up and executed a perfect dynamic rollover.
>
> 3rd one appears to be tail rotor failure.

2nd & 3rd vids, I've seen before. I've got them saved. The 1st is new to
me and very impressive. I don't get the impression he had a tail strike but
obviously a tail failure. He rolled pretty badly and was able to right the
helicopter (something I wouldn't have thought possible) and managed to keep
it level for a revolution or so before rolling it again and finally
contacting a main blade with the ground.

I never got the impression that he cut power. Did he freeze on that or does
it take that long for a turbine to wind down? I have watched turbines do
hovering throttle chops and it didn't seem like they took that long to power
down but I don't know if that's true of all machines.

Just wondering.

Fly Safe,
Steve R.

[Don W]

wrote:
> 3 very interesting Helicopter Crash Videos on one page.
> I guess landing is most critical, or is it ? All accidents here
> happened at the landing.
> http://www.jumpingpixels.com/helicoptercrash.html
>

Ugh!! those were ugly. The first one made me think that the
pilots should have just accepted a poor landing instead of
grabbing collective when the tail started to slew. If
they'd unloaded the rotor at that moment instead of loading
it way up, they would have been okay.

The second one was just waayy ugly. He needed to grab
collective, and didn't for some reason.

The third one looked like there was nothing the pilot could
have done. Best for him to just unload the rotor and put it
on the ground FAST.

Guess the moral of 1st & 3rd stories is that if you've got
the anti-torque to the floor, and its still going the wrong
way you better just unload the rotor if you're at all close
to the ground. It just gets worse from there.

Don W.

[Don W]

wrote:
> 3 very interesting Helicopter Crash Videos on one page.
> I guess landing is most critical, or is it ? All accidents here
> happened at the landing.
> http://www.jumpingpixels.com/helicoptercrash.html
>

Ugh!! those were ugly. The first one made me think that the
pilots should have just accepted a poor landing instead of
grabbing collective when the tail started to slew. If
they'd unloaded the rotor at that moment instead of loading
it way up, they would have been okay.

The second one was just waayy ugly. He needed to grab
collective, and didn't for some reason.

The third one looked like there was nothing the pilot could
have done. Best for him to just unload the rotor and put it
on the ground FAST.

Guess the moral of 1st & 3rd stories is that if you've got
the anti-torque to the floor, and its still going the wrong
way you better just unload the rotor if you're at all close
to the ground. It just gets worse from there.

Don W.

[Dave in San Diego]

Don W > wrote in news:csdXf.7240
:

>
> wrote:
>> 3 very interesting Helicopter Crash Videos on one page.
>> I guess landing is most critical, or is it ? All accidents here
>> happened at the landing.
>> http://www.jumpingpixels.com/helicoptercrash.html
>>
>
> Ugh!! those were ugly. The first one made me think that the
> pilots should have just accepted a poor landing instead of
> grabbing collective when the tail started to slew. If
> they'd unloaded the rotor at that moment instead of loading
> it way up, they would have been okay.
>
> The second one was just waayy ugly. He needed to grab
> collective, and didn't for some reason.
>
> The third one looked like there was nothing the pilot could
> have done. Best for him to just unload the rotor and put it
> on the ground FAST.
>
> Guess the moral of 1st & 3rd stories is that if you've got
> the anti-torque to the floor, and its still going the wrong
> way you better just unload the rotor if you're at all close
> to the ground. It just gets worse from there.

In the second one, if you look closely, he caught a wheel in the net around
the flight deck. When he pulled collective, it tipped him over. The wheel
eventually pulled free, but too late to save it.

Dave in San Diego