I know one of the passengers and he said the pilot had 4 cracked vertibrae and a headache!! no one else was injured but the old girl serving hotdogs had a heart attack...
yes but he came very close to wrecking a million dollar machine, and killing innocent bystanders. the only reason nothing went wrong is he was lucky. and it appears he bent the pipe at the bottom of the tail fin that protects the tail rotor
what a lucky escape, it looks like he bent the tail guard (white pipe coming off the bottom of the tail boom), which is there to protect the tail rotor. and he probably damaged the skids as well, the idiot.
he is very lucky to come out of that alive, if one of his skids snagged on something or if one of the skids broke off there wouldve been many hurt and maybe killed
oh damn. boy is he lucky. any harder and tail rotor could've smacked the ground putting him in an uncontrollable violent spin. hes lucky but very ballsy
missjudged wingover... knocking the skids on the ground could easily cause a noseover, especially bad with the type of head that the bell has. idiot pilot.
@jimmyrussell23 thats an interesting fact, that happened a while back with japan airlines flight 123 after a tail strike, lasted another 12.000 or so landings but eventually broke up killing all but 4 on board. wonder how many more of these 'disasters in the waiting' are flying around
So.....What happened to the helicopter? It looks like it went down? More info please! Where I come from (in the Navy) we refer to that manuever as a rotor over. Normally, a "responsible" person doing that one has some altitude on their side.... Oh well.
Just an observation, but when he's completed his rather low level hammer head he's downwind (there's a wind sock clearly visible towards the end of the clip). When you perform a hammer head you should end up facing into wind or have plenty of height to play with. If you try one low level and end up downwind guess what'll happen...
Doing this with a crowd of people watching nearby could be construed as a little irresponsible.
He was meant to touch the ground, hence the stuntname "Touch and Go" but he hit it just a bit too hard. That helicopter would be grounded for a while untill they'd done a complete airframe check for structural damage.
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"Thanks for playing, try again" Shut Up!!!! Is this why I am a qualified pilot and in some..... not all (as some disagree) lessons teams the Toach and Go is classed as both an Aerobatic manouvre but also as a training piece........ either of us could be right depending on how you see it!!!
The touch and go is never considered an aerobatic maneuver. Nowhere in the FAR/AIM or any other FAA supplement does it list a touch and go as an aerobatic maneuver.
As to you being a "qualified pilot" aside from FSX I doubt you have any turbine helo time from the fact you're 16 and more than likely cant afford the $800 per hour for a Jetranger.
Kirov686 is right, you are wrong. Thats how I see it.
Considering I am talking about it being a show or areoatic manouvre in a Grob astir.... not a helicopter..... i think we should just drop it coz i am obviously confusing people by writing on a heli vid!!!!!! This could go on for weeks!!!!!
Fact: The reason u now have the sun visors it because in vietnam pilots used to crash because the sun use to flicker at a cirtain rate though the rotors and hipnotise them. making them crash.
Oh stop it...where do you wannabes come up with that crap. We called those RTT's back in the old days.. as in Return To Target, and it was a blast in a AH-1, but doing it in a Jet Ranger is about the same as driving your Mom's car around the Indy oval. More than one Huey ended up in the mud because somebody *thought* the could do it in a UH-1, and took a few GI's with them unfortunately. This guy... talk about pucker factor...
If that was an intentional attempt at a run-on landing, it was a terrible one. He's lucky he didn't come down like that on the heels of the skids. What a stupid bastard with all those spectators. This is why everybody thinks helicopters are so dangerous, and why the FAA keeps trying to regulate them out of usefullness.
That was more like bumping a helicopter into the air. I Vietnam the early Hueys were under pwoered so the pilots would get enough lift to transition to forward flight and then while moving forward about 4-5 feet off the ground the would drop down and bump the Huey a couple of times in order to gain altitude.
That STUPID pilot didn't do that on purpose, but almost crashed! A run on landing is nothing like what that nut did. His dumb wreckless ass also could've caused spike knock and or broke the boom off of the helo when he hit the ground. Not a good pilot at all. . Just a dangerous one :(
Not sure he didn't do that on purpose. When I was doing my primary helo instruction we had to do several run-on landings. If you have room its a much safer way to complete an autorotation. There is nothing necessarily dangerous about running on the skids.
Again, what he did is very common to do in training. I also asked my instructor about the skids snaging on something and he wasn't worried about it (probably why they are upturned in the front). If you watch some of the auto-rotations posted on youtube you will see than many of them are run-ons and they slide on the skids through the grass.
I would question that as his speed clearly indicates he did not intend to do a run on and bounce back into the air. The truth is he got lucky and he damned well knew it.
Yoou can see the entire tail flex so yeah this would be where some of that damage came from
stratagie1 2 months ago
gravity sucks...but the earth spit him back
jjjazzycraig 7 months ago
at 19 the tail touches the ground... that cant be goo0d
CrimsonGetsu 8 months ago
change de pantalon apres ça lol
stofouille 1 year ago
That is HARD bump!
81Pondus81 1 year ago
dumb ass pilots never learn. Cuz they die before they do.
HappySCVResident 1 year ago
oooh thats really hard on the skids. I sure hope he didnt bend em or its a 10,000 dollar replacement.
sirlego1 1 year ago
Could have been a lot worse... then again I guess it was if it killed 4 people 10 hours later.
Slider388 1 year ago
I agree, jaol.
ClearedToLand7 1 year ago
@MrWillydoit i agree with u there mr throw the twat behind bars for 25 years
PaulieMac77 1 year ago 10
@MrWillydoit the cunt should lose his pilots licence 4 good
PaulieMac77 1 year ago
thats fucking crazy doing that sorta shit with people standing so damn close
PaulieMac77 1 year ago
He was meant to do that plus it was coooool.
TheWhirlybird123 1 year ago
dumn facken
TUBEORATER 1 year ago
I know one of the passengers and he said the pilot had 4 cracked vertibrae and a headache!! no one else was injured but the old girl serving hotdogs had a heart attack...
fingerspies 2 years ago
misjudged? or judged perfectly?.... nobody died....
gracey62uk 2 years ago 3
touche
childsca 2 years ago
yes but he came very close to wrecking a million dollar machine, and killing innocent bystanders. the only reason nothing went wrong is he was lucky. and it appears he bent the pipe at the bottom of the tail fin that protects the tail rotor
gadget666 2 years ago 3
indeed, i was only joking anyway.
mind you, he done well to recover!
could have been a lot worse!
gracey62uk 2 years ago
damn that was close
sailesh2001 2 years ago
Well, with about 2, 3 or 4 tonnes of helicopter slamming into the ground, the force of the impact mainly on the back of the skids and the tail guard.
Ouch...
Ilikeonions 2 years ago
4 tonnes? oil tankers don't fly wanker county boy
ARXHMalakas 1 year ago
Oil tankers weigh in at a maximum of 15 tonnes, so next time research these facts before you try and prove someone wrong.
Ilikeonions 1 year ago
did he crashed after?...
deimos2k6 2 years ago
That is as close as it gets.
killbill402 2 years ago 3
Damn...
94miata 2 years ago
this was on flight simulator 2000 haha! The Bell 206
MOZZWIGAN 2 years ago
what a lucky escape, it looks like he bent the tail guard (white pipe coming off the bottom of the tail boom), which is there to protect the tail rotor. and he probably damaged the skids as well, the idiot.
gadget666 2 years ago
he is very lucky to come out of that alive, if one of his skids snagged on something or if one of the skids broke off there wouldve been many hurt and maybe killed
Demon01313 2 years ago
did the grass die?
donkeymorris 2 years ago 11
Some had critical injuries but none died! :D
FunnyBubble860 2 years ago
that guy at the end was too scared to think lol
recklesswit2891 2 years ago
too close to spectators!
cjellwood 2 years ago
Hier hat man gesehen das der Pilot getrunken hat.
hecker80 2 years ago
what an idiot, its not worth trying to cut it so close just to look good infront of a crowd, no matter how good of a pilot you are.
wildwilly87 2 years ago 3
you're right, I would have loved to see what he would have done if his landing skids had snapped off due to the stress he put them under!
AndyB332 2 years ago
so close!
thejordan01 2 years ago
i bet his ass hurt like hell after that inncodent!
576Club 2 years ago
I'll bet the seats were quite brown after that stunt. This guy must be dead by now; nobody who tries this kind of sh** could survive long.
rapskallion 2 years ago 5
i bet he shat himself!!!
chrisscullynz 2 years ago 4
deserved to!
Kentuckyhorse1 2 years ago
Just a fool, so close to public and with passengers, why do people always want an audiance if they do these suicide attempts.
demusch1 2 years ago 3
They say, the pilot looked how far he can go.
he wanted the helicopter to touch the ground.
Verdampfniss 2 years ago
What I call a BLOODY MORON:-((((( pffff
JexPAuk 2 years ago 5
either this guy had BALLS OF DIAMONDS or a death wish
cueballin 2 years ago 13
@cueballin i think both
0goo 1 year ago
stupidity put him there.
experience saved the fireball.
:)
ive got 60 hours,
i hope never to try something like that with 6000
sk0rponok 2 years ago 3
So close to smashing into the ground. That would suck though.
FA22RaiseHell 2 years ago
a really great pilot doing something really stupid then doing somthing really great again..
deohgesdad 2 years ago 3
THX138Driver - couldn't have said it better.
Let me guess, he's got around 600hr or 1700hr on his books. Psychologically, they're the 'I'm Invincible' zones.
11 years on army chopper - I've seen cowboys come and go (die). That guy is a dead man walking...fact.
ShootBigBird 2 years ago 4
oh damn. boy is he lucky. any harder and tail rotor could've smacked the ground putting him in an uncontrollable violent spin. hes lucky but very ballsy
SUFI194189 2 years ago 4
Another frustrated tactical aviator.
THX138Driver 2 years ago
misjudge? or best pilot ever? lol u know he has to change his pants afterward lol
konadude92 2 years ago 4
missjudged wingover... knocking the skids on the ground could easily cause a noseover, especially bad with the type of head that the bell has. idiot pilot.
nedders73 2 years ago
wow.... speechless!
DailyGhostUFO 2 years ago 4
yip
TheUnbeen 2 years ago
Das letzte war wohl irgendwo in Deutschland. Heftig.....Die Zuschauer 10 Meter daneben.
zudrittincux 3 years ago
That little bitty net in front of that crowd isnt protecting anyone.
CrabtreeGuitar 3 years ago 2
meant to do that??
geez imagine if his skids snagged on something do you think he still would have "meant" to do it???
jimmyrussell23 3 years ago
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nuttin went WRONG... the pilot ment to do that but...
1) He had passengers so it was really stupid to do that
2)that is definately NOT good 4 the heli... and
3)CHANGE THE NAME OF THIS VIDEO.. itwas NOT a misjudged heli stunt... he prolly meant to do that
mxkickyo455 3 years ago
WHAT!!! he meant to smash the skids into the ground? words fail me.
ukstreetracer 2 years ago 2
lol he dusent missjudge thats what was supposed to happen. he id nowt rong there he was jus doing something for the crowd thats all m8 lol
arbitar222 3 years ago
Irresponsible operation of a helicopter which I would guess doesn't belong to him. If he was working for me, he'd be fired after this stunt.
xnvyflyer 3 years ago 3
It didnt go down, it flew for another 10 hrs i believe and had a tail rotor failure in Austria killing 4 people on board
Safety bureau officers found cracks in the tail spar and this manoevre i thought could have been partly to blame.
jimmyrussell23 3 years ago 3
@jimmyrussell23 thats an interesting fact, that happened a while back with japan airlines flight 123 after a tail strike, lasted another 12.000 or so landings but eventually broke up killing all but 4 on board. wonder how many more of these 'disasters in the waiting' are flying around
SimboSays 1 year ago
@jimmyrussell23
Holy shit really?
That's not good..All because of that stupid maneuvre people lost their lives..
motokid032 9 months ago
You all make good points about what an idiot this pilot is. here's another one, he does it with a full ship ( Passengers ). What a moron
swchopperpilot 3 years ago
So what the f happened???????????
lourg 3 years ago
So.....What happened to the helicopter? It looks like it went down? More info please! Where I come from (in the Navy) we refer to that manuever as a rotor over. Normally, a "responsible" person doing that one has some altitude on their side.... Oh well.
scottieshea 3 years ago
Just an observation, but when he's completed his rather low level hammer head he's downwind (there's a wind sock clearly visible towards the end of the clip). When you perform a hammer head you should end up facing into wind or have plenty of height to play with. If you try one low level and end up downwind guess what'll happen...
Doing this with a crowd of people watching nearby could be construed as a little irresponsible.
knghydn 3 years ago
He was meant to touch the ground, hence the stuntname "Touch and Go" but he hit it just a bit too hard. That helicopter would be grounded for a while untill they'd done a complete airframe check for structural damage.
joelwhitaker 3 years ago
a "touch and go" is not a stunt maneuver. He made a mistake and he's lucky to have come out alive. Thanks for playing, try again.
Kirov686 2 years ago 4
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"Thanks for playing, try again" Shut Up!!!! Is this why I am a qualified pilot and in some..... not all (as some disagree) lessons teams the Toach and Go is classed as both an Aerobatic manouvre but also as a training piece........ either of us could be right depending on how you see it!!!
joelwhitaker 2 years ago
The touch and go is never considered an aerobatic maneuver. Nowhere in the FAR/AIM or any other FAA supplement does it list a touch and go as an aerobatic maneuver.
As to you being a "qualified pilot" aside from FSX I doubt you have any turbine helo time from the fact you're 16 and more than likely cant afford the $800 per hour for a Jetranger.
Kirov686 is right, you are wrong. Thats how I see it.
captaincz26 2 years ago 4
Considering I am talking about it being a show or areoatic manouvre in a Grob astir.... not a helicopter..... i think we should just drop it coz i am obviously confusing people by writing on a heli vid!!!!!! This could go on for weeks!!!!!
joelwhitaker 2 years ago
Oh geez
pineappleboy1 3 years ago
im sure he started smoking after that performance, that, or he at least went over his life insurance forms.
Greendayfan0921 3 years ago
WOW that must have left big skid marks! (and on the ground)
hathome 4 years ago 3
Fact: The reason u now have the sun visors it because in vietnam pilots used to crash because the sun use to flicker at a cirtain rate though the rotors and hipnotise them. making them crash.
LA33R 4 years ago
Oh stop it...where do you wannabes come up with that crap. We called those RTT's back in the old days.. as in Return To Target, and it was a blast in a AH-1, but doing it in a Jet Ranger is about the same as driving your Mom's car around the Indy oval. More than one Huey ended up in the mud because somebody *thought* the could do it in a UH-1, and took a few GI's with them unfortunately. This guy... talk about pucker factor...
Moosehead429 4 years ago
Don't be silly, prop induced epileptic seizures can happen in any plane but it's rare because it only happens to EPILEPTICS.
We have sun visors becuase THE SUN BLINDS YOU.
batvette 3 years ago
Wow you can see the tail bend like crazy in the slow-mo. Pretty surprising he didn't crash actually.
SnyperJESUS 4 years ago
if he judged it a bit later it would of been bye bye mr pilot and people close to it from the shratnel
pwND001 4 years ago 2
If that was an intentional attempt at a run-on landing, it was a terrible one. He's lucky he didn't come down like that on the heels of the skids. What a stupid bastard with all those spectators. This is why everybody thinks helicopters are so dangerous, and why the FAA keeps trying to regulate them out of usefullness.
musicman30mm 4 years ago
That was more like bumping a helicopter into the air. I Vietnam the early Hueys were under pwoered so the pilots would get enough lift to transition to forward flight and then while moving forward about 4-5 feet off the ground the would drop down and bump the Huey a couple of times in order to gain altitude.
greg8698 4 years ago 2
wow, hard core.
qrs11 3 years ago
Luck or judgement, I don't care, all I can say is jeeezus!!!!
charlieflint 4 years ago
That STUPID pilot didn't do that on purpose, but almost crashed! A run on landing is nothing like what that nut did. His dumb wreckless ass also could've caused spike knock and or broke the boom off of the helo when he hit the ground. Not a good pilot at all. . Just a dangerous one :(
teiladay 4 years ago
Luuuuuck to dont roll over itself
guivolp 4 years ago
Not sure he didn't do that on purpose. When I was doing my primary helo instruction we had to do several run-on landings. If you have room its a much safer way to complete an autorotation. There is nothing necessarily dangerous about running on the skids.
RobertGary1 4 years ago
That was an accident. He just got lucky his skids didn't snag.
crispycritterz 4 years ago
Again, what he did is very common to do in training. I also asked my instructor about the skids snaging on something and he wasn't worried about it (probably why they are upturned in the front). If you watch some of the auto-rotations posted on youtube you will see than many of them are run-ons and they slide on the skids through the grass.
RobertGary1 4 years ago
I would question that as his speed clearly indicates he did not intend to do a run on and bounce back into the air. The truth is he got lucky and he damned well knew it.
greg8698 4 years ago
He's lucky the skids didn't SNAP.
cockslutfartypants 4 years ago
lucky lucky man ! 5 ft lower and this would have been posted as "Helecopter fireball crash" so close !
loshasguy 4 years ago
close call, hmm?!
manhill 4 years ago
Whoa that was close!
surfgurujeff 4 years ago
You fuckers are nuts.
ridedirtba 4 years ago