military heli crash vid

[C601]

:smash:

http://www.break.com/movies/militaryhelicrash.html

 

[Menno Mulder]

wow

How can something like that happen? hope everybody survived.

 

[RipCurl]

Obviously something went very wrong with the tailrotor when they first touched down. Hope everybody lived, including the one guy who jumped...

 

[9GClub]

Not sure he jumped, looked like he got thrown to the ground pretty violently. Not too violently though, cause he got up and ran. Looks like he was able to get beyond the main rotor blades, but he came close to having his day ruined. Was that a tail rotor strike on touchdown?

 

[Big Duke Six]

It didn't look like they had enough deck angle to get a tailstrike, but who knows. They obviously lost control of the tailrotor for some reason.

The website says everyone got out OK.

If you listen real close, the last voice you hear on the audio sounds like he is yelling "Chee-berger!" like he was John Belushi from SNL.

 

[FracCapt]

Not a tail rotor strike.....that's a Super Puma, and it's just not physically possible to have a tail rotor strike on a Super Puma while in not in a hard right bank or standing it on its tail(another 30+ degrees of pitch up than in that video). They could have had a tail strike, and caused some problems with the tail rotor drive system...but the tail rotor itself could not have had a strike in with that deck angle.

Any idea what military that is? It's not US, because we don't operate any Super Pumas.

 

[crash-proof]

Not a tail rotor strike.....that's a Super Puma, and it's just not physically possible to have a tail rotor strike on a Super Puma while in not in a hard right bank or standing it on its tail(another 30+ degrees of pitch up than in that video). They could have had a tail strike, and caused some problems with the tail rotor drive system...but the tail rotor itself could not have had a strike in with that deck angle.

Any idea what military that is? It's not US, because we don't operate any Super Pumas.

France comes to mind...

 

[FracCapt]

France comes to mind...

Possibly...but I know they're also operated by Romania, the UK, and Switzerland...in addition to a few other countries I don't remember...and I can't identify it based on the paint.