Up Close Helicopter Crash. - Polidicks

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5aMT9MBfZI&feature=channel_video_title[/media] [quote]"Whist erecting a seven story high structure to be used as a Christmas tree, the helicopters rotor struck a cable causing the aircraft to crash to the ground. The Pilot was helped from the crumpled wreckage with minor injuries."[/quote] Caused by some idiot who tugged on a rope under the helicopter at about 0:33.

You can see the dude with a black T-shirt in front of the middle safety guy center-right messing with the rope. @0:30

Christ, the other video was bad enough !

Holy shit, hope the pilot is okay. and I hope the idiot who tugged on the cable feels bad.

[QUOTE=sphinxa279;33417042]Holy shit, hope the pilot is okay. and I hope the idiot who tugged on the cable feels bad.[/QUOTE] Looks like he was meant to do something with it, but messed it up.

looks like he was supposed to keep it out of the rotor, but when he grabed it he pulled it into the rotor and I believe that this was inevitable unless the pilot had moved the helicopter away from the wire, its just that the pulling of the rope sped things up a bit, at least it was low enough altitude that the helicopter's fuselage didn't start rotating

Helicopters seem so delicate.

even if that guy never touched the cable, a helicopter it will still crash by that cable

[QUOTE=PenguinKris;33417149]Helicopters seem so delicate.[/QUOTE] They're fairly fragile machines. All aircraft are. One simple mistake, whether it's a cable in the rotor or a pebble in a turbine, could lead to catastrophic failure of the whole mechanism. This is rather one of the extreme examples since helicopters completely rely on the force generated by the rotor; in this case, the force that could lift a 3000 pound helicopter up was used to bring it down.

And on that day, the workers would forever remember it as the day they shat brix

That's tense, glad everyone was okay.

[QUOTE=halo_224;33416988] Caused by some idiot who tugged on a rope under the helicopter at about 0:33.[/QUOTE] [B]Different View[/B] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pghA1XUaxxU[/media]

[QUOTE=D3vils Buddy;33417381]Different View [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pghA1XUaxxU[/media] It wasn't caused by the guy tugging the rope, there was a small loose cable hanging above the chopper.[/QUOTE] No, it was. That cable comes down and loops around and is attached to the bottom of the chopper. When the man tugged on the chopper cable, he inadvertently pulled the other end into the propellers instead. [editline]24th November 2011[/editline] Watch the end of the OP's video, at 1:42 you can see it's the same cable, and you can see when blackshirt leaps up to grab it, he yanks it closer. Less than a second later the propeller strikes it and the chopper goes down.

Pilot was lucky he didn't fall out.

[QUOTE=icemaz;33417553]Pilot was lucky he didn't fall out.[/QUOTE] He's strapped in.

[QUOTE=gamefreek76;33417607]He's strapped in.[/QUOTE] He almost hit the rotors. [img]http://speedcap.net/img/a659862bb30a85b02d30e0865505138e/4c731947/4c731947.png[/img]

Did anyone else think the sound of the rotors hitting the wire sounded like a headshot in CS?

Kinda cool how it stopped so "peacefully". After watching movies and playing games you'd expect debris to fly 100 meter away and huge explosions when a helicopter crash. [editline]24th November 2011[/editline] And the guy that caused it had quite a luck, it looked like he stood really close to the helicopter, not to mention that he pulled the string with his hands when the rotors ran into it.

[QUOTE=sphinxa279;33417042]Holy shit, hope the pilot is okay. and I hope the idiot who tugged on the cable feels bad.[/QUOTE] it was an accident

Camera man has balls of steel for not running.

It's weird that the tail suddenly breaks off while the helicopter is still in the air...

I thought the pilot fell out and got up?

[QUOTE=Dlaor-guy;33418154]It's weird that the tail suddenly breaks off while the helicopter is still in the air...[/QUOTE] Helicopters are extremely fragile as they are made to be so light. The sudden jolt was more than enough to break it.

[QUOTE=Swebonny;33417838]Kinda cool how it stopped so "peacefully". After watching movies and playing games you'd expect debris to fly 100 meter away and huge explosions when a helicopter crash. [editline]24th November 2011[/editline] And the guy that caused it had quite a luck, it looked like he stood really close to the helicopter, not to mention that he pulled the string with his hands when the rotors ran into it.[/QUOTE] Blame it on Michael bay :v: Yeah he almost got hit by the rotor's. but thankfully, they were spared.

The chopper probably would have hit it anyway.

Some people on the youtube channel all seem confused as to what happened here. Second video shows it the best. When the cable struck the main rotor it destroyed that blade and caused the helicopter to violently jolt, it's at that moment the tail breaks off. As stated, all aircraft are fragile machines. It does not take much to cripple one.

[QUOTE=scotland1;33418228]Helicopters are extremely fragile as they are made to be so light. The sudden jolt was more than enough to break it.[/QUOTE] Its not that they're super fragile. The motor has so much torque that when the main prop no longer had resistance from the air the drive shaft for the tail rotor spun with a lot more force and ripped the tail in half.

Fuck, try and imagine it from the pilots view, he almost fell out

[QUOTE=D3vils Buddy;33417381]Different View [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pghA1XUaxxU[/media] It wasn't caused by the guy tugging the rope, there was a small loose cable hanging above the chopper.[/QUOTE] you can see the cable moving out of view and then jerking back into the rotor, and the cable goes below the helicopter why cant you at least watch the video more closely before you make claims

[QUOTE=Squarebob;33418376]The chopper probably would have hit it anyway.[/QUOTE] Blackshirt was there to hold it away. What he did wrong was to grab it way too early. He [U]jumped[/U] to grab it, which means that with his falling back to the ground, he would be pulling the cable down with him, tensing it further (bringing it closer, not further). Had he waited for it to descend low enough for him to grab and then quickly moved away from the helicopter, it would've been averted.