Helicopter crash video

"Eric Miller" wrote in message
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"Aardvark" wrote in message
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James Blakely wrote:
About a year or so ago, someone posted here a video of a helicopter
crash.
The story behind it was that the helicopter was bought by someone who
didn't
have any helicopter experience. The new owner was attempting to fly
it
home
and then get instruction. The helicopter just flew in circles a bit
and
then crashed. The clip was all of 30 seconds or so. The good news
was
that
the occupant walked away from the crash.

Does anyone have this video or know where I can download it? I've
tried
google searches on "helicopter" and "helicopter crash" but I get way
too
many hits to sort through.

TIA.



http://s91499480.onlinehome.us/vids/

Looks like this one:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20001213X30727

I wonder if he had to explain that to his insurance company!?!??

Amazing, isn't it, that a guy can afford to buy such a "toy" and be stupid
enough to have that toy for a total of five minutes.

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote:
Amazing, isn't it,...

Not in the least.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

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"Dan Luke" wrote:

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote:
Amazing, isn't it,...

Not in the least.

Two good things with the crash

1) Nobody hurt
2) Didn't hit anybody ELSE'S aircraft---he could have beat the crap out
of a LOT of fixed wing aircraft at that airport, and thankfully he only
destroyed his new aircraft..

What an idiot!

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote:
Amazing, isn't it,...

Not in the least.

I think stupidity is an exception; Dan thinks it's the rule.

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote:
Amazing, isn't it,...

Not in the least.

I think stupidity is an exception; Dan thinks it's the rule.

No. I think it's not amazing. It's not uncommon enough to be amazing.
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Dan
C172RG at BFM

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote:
Amazing, isn't it,...

Not in the least.

I think stupidity is an exception; Dan thinks it's the rule.

No. I think it's not amazing. It's not uncommon enough to be amazing.

You have an interesting definition for "uncommon".

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote:
You have an interesting definition for "uncommon".


You think idiots with more money than brains are uncommon? Try hanging
out at an upscale marina sometime.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote:
Amazing, isn't it,...

Not in the least.

I think stupidity is an exception; Dan thinks it's the rule.

What's amazing to me is that he managed to survive as long as he did in that
evolution. It looks to me from that he doesn't even have his hand on the
cyclic when the sequence starts (I think he must have opened the throttle
not realizing that unlike an car in Neutral or an airplane with brakes there
is nothing to restrain a helicopter).

He almost rolls it over as it is skittering across the pavement early on but
it breaks free and gets into the air.

I know a guy who thought it would be "neat" to own an airplane. He had NO
experience and had NEVER been up in ANY aircraft.....ever.

He found a guy willing to sell him an "ultralight" (funny, this ultralight
had 2 seats and 15 gal tanks). Anyway, he writes the check and jumps in and
flys himself home in it (50 miles).

Ironically (and what became his reasoning for teaching himself), the plane
was destroyed a week later by an ultralight instructor. The instructor
crashed it into a pond while he was on a "familiarization flight" before
taking the owner up for his first lesson.

He now flys powered parachutes.....

People will do amazingly stupid things when ignorance gets in the way.....

"Jeff Franks" wrote in message
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I know a guy who thought it would be "neat" to own an airplane. He had NO
experience and had NEVER been up in ANY aircraft.....ever.

He found a guy willing to sell him an "ultralight" (funny, this ultralight
had 2 seats and 15 gal tanks). Anyway, he writes the check and jumps in
and
flys himself home in it (50 miles).

Ironically (and what became his reasoning for teaching himself), the plane
was destroyed a week later by an ultralight instructor. The instructor
crashed it into a pond while he was on a "familiarization flight" before
taking the owner up for his first lesson.

He now flys powered parachutes.....

People will do amazingly stupid things when ignorance gets in the way.....

Let's see: the owner, with ZERO FT or instruction manages to get home (an
ultralight is a whole different class than a Hughes 269), but the INSTRUCTOR
manages to prang it.

So....where's the ignorance?