national geographic amazing moments : mount hood helicopter crash

[mweaverpdx]

I was on the scene when the PaveHawk crashed and I helped the National Geo producers make this video. Other than the overly dramatic announcer, they did a decent job recreating the events that day. Believe me, there is no way to accurately capture what happened that day, even with all the video of the crash. The sounds alone are burned into my memory.

[bubba8194]

My dad was climbing in the same area a week before, but had to turn back at the base of the Hogsback where the accident happened because of weather.

[Brandan09997]

~26 people have died on mt hood since 1980-2011

[donttreadonme388]

WOW Even NATGEO cant get their story straight My stepdad was the one who saved Mofits life by diving forward when the tail kicked back and they started losing altitude. Then he got rolled over by the chopper 4 times and then thrown down the hill and rolled over again. He broke his ankle severed his liver messed up his back 939th Rescue Squadron Air Force

[kevjay777]

Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. The pilot made a good landing.

[Wimpoman]

Holy fuck!

[SuperDoctorV]

Oregon!!! My hood rules!

[JefafaSB]

Climbers should pay a deposit, redeemable upon safe return but utilized in the event of costly rescue. Or maby purchase some form of insurance. Just a thought.

[bkb0000]

@JefafaSB

it's not climbers who need rescue from hood- it's all the NON-climbers who TRY to climb the mountain. but either way, 12,000 people climb that mountain every year, and very, very few of them need rescue. local mountain rescue is a fantastic VOLUNTEER public service that exists to allow people to enjoy the extremes of nature but not have to die if something goes wrong.

[Postie218]

@bkb0000 Now come on, you know as well as I do there have been several deaths of experienced climbers on Hood.

[Briwellman]

6201 is cursed.

[jiclxibad]

mierda ,,, que fatalidad ....inevitable

[awwwyeaboyeeee]

This guy's voice makes me want to shoot myself.

[hunter53able]

i live 40 miles from mount hood not in portland though i live in madrass

[ReadThisBelow]

That dude who fell from the top is a DICK!!

[10995]

I remember this from a program on tv. What was the name of that program? It talked about the whole incident, From before the accident, to the three groups of mountain climbers to the fall, the helicopter crash, the rescue. Does anyone know what that program was called?

[weenz0r]

This hawk flew again. I was a CCAD when it was being repaired and sent back to the field.

[leandercool]

i saw this yesterday

[snedie69er]

Why, on US documentaries, do they always have to state the blatantly obvious?

"the 22,000 helicopter could crush...." I mean come on, if some one doesn't already understand that they should be crushed.

[YukonTrooper]

Man, being the guy tethered to the heli would have been crazy intense.

[bertrandka]

Medium & heavy helicopter are not made for altitude rescue.

[7249xxl]

onley damadge on H-60 tailrotor destroied and mean rotor and that guy gets launched out the helicopter and it rols over him unharmong him

[Tenochitlam]

im in search and rescue for this county. Can't belive that happened.

[smellmyparts]

all that hassle & putting other peoples life in danger just for some morons climbing a mountain!

[Ebbonified]

Gotta love the H-60. Thats a stout bird to be going through that kind of punishment and still look like a helicopter.

Sikorskis are tough as nails.

[overlordplumo]

Agreed- Ths S-70 is an amazing helicopter, capible aof many roles, and is a tough helicopter at that!

[MUSTANG408W]

That aircraft was rebuilt. She still flies today.

[brapboys503]

@Ebbonified Hell yeah they are. Us Oregonians swear by them. Even Portland Police Department has one because they're SNOTTY fast, haha.

[lostindiancamp]

Those chopper pilots wouldn't have had to put their lives in danger if those climbers had been told they were climbing at their own risk and not to expect help.

[timbukII]

Same thing with car crash victims right? I mean it's really disgusting that my tax dollars pay for rescue personnel and ambulances. Driving kills over 40,000 people in the United States every year. If you drive, it's at your own risk, don't make it my burden as well.

[crazyyella]

@timbukII exactly...and what about unexpected floods in places that don't usually flood...maybe they should just be told "tough shit" no chopper rescue for you.

[dickwad001]

awsome