@siscog93 The helicopter didn't melt. It's rotors hit the crane, causing it to crash. The radiation at Chernobyl at the time could not melt an airborne helicopter.
The Ukrainian filmmaker Vladimir Shevchenko captured film footage of an Mi-8 helicopter as it collided with a nearby construction crane, causing the helicopter to fall near the damaged reactor building and killing its four-man crew.
Мы ездили дикарём на своём джипе в Зону этой весной. Возле входа на территорию саркофага на хвост сели менты, еле смылись. Объезжали браконьерскими тропами блокпосты, нежданно-негаданно нашли чемодан с деньгами. Ролик "Прорыв к Саркофагу 4 реактора Чернобыльской АЭС" можете посмотреть у меня на странице. Полный отчёт о поездке - в блоге по ссылке в описании под роликом
The one in the middle, ( the man who has his hands in the jacket pockets , is the General Nikolai Tarakanov, he didn't died in the helicopter crash, in fact he is alive and living in russia, he got old, and i think he has cancer, the cancer is the product of beeing in chernobyl trying to save the planet...... he is another anonymus hero !!!!!!
It could be the radiation that made the pilot lose control of the helicopter and hit the crane cables, i have no othe explanations than this.. poor pilot :/
@Mrcowboynorris go fuck yourself fucking troll, Russian people saved the world by fixing there misstake while your ignorant ass doesnt have any guts that every Liquidator have.
Russians didn't fix shit. They quarantined the area and built the sarcophagi. Oh, people are still dying in the Ukraine from the disaster, but Russian officials refuse to help them get medical treatment because there hasn't been any reports published that explicitly state the Chernobyl disaster had anything to do with it....well, by Russian doctors at least....but miraculously the rest of the world has linked the incidents many,many times.
@mypiratehat The chernobyl disaster was a big trategy, russias saved your fuckign asses meanwhile ur talking shit japan is in nuclear disaster and seems like your fucking ''freedom nation'' aint doing JACK shit to help peaople of japan litterly BEGD for ur ignorant asses to help. Learn your fucking history asshole. meanwhile im schooling you with this faceslap. Russians DID SAVE the world from there misstake. other than that your just a fucking ungreatful ignorant asshole. go fuck yourself.
@egdqv13234 Hold up who saved who now if you learned your history you would find that without the European Bank for Reconstruction and Developments shelter fund that i must add that russia pays nothing to its payed by the eu Ukraine and the usa the sarcophagus would collapse the usa has been there from the early 90s fixing russias problem as of 2010 russia have washed there hands of the disaster they created it was not just russians on the day of the disaster who saved the day
@carsieplg HAVE you even read my comment? if not please try to underrstand, who is hero and why otherwise your just talking out of your rear sir. or better yet GO and SEE the info about the disaster ow and united nations provide help? no shit that aint a newsflash and ofcourse they have to since the radiation dust reached allmost every country in europe. ur talking mostly about Chernobyl forum aka world bank. and besideds if all countrys put togeather non of them have GUTS of a Liquidator.
@carsieplg ow and my bad, if u dont understand let me tell u that im not saying that russians are the only heroes, russians are a part of help that provides chernobyl. Ofcourse there are europe nations and mostly Belarus Ukraine and Russian federation plus help of europe. Respect to that, another thing u wanted to know who i ment by saying ''Heroes'' thoes are the people who sacraficed them selves in order to protect the future that is behaind them. aka Liquidators. PERIOD
@egdqv13234 You realy think Liquidators had ANY choice on the matter? they were FORCED to do it. It was either that or get shot by 10 men lined up. Get your facts straight.
It's so scary to see what some elements can do when exposed to the earth, if those radiation clouds did that do a helicopter in seconds, just think of what it could of done to the world and all of us if it was not at least semi contained. We are all lucky to have our health and should thank those who risked and continue to risk their lives for our freedom and health worldwide.
@MangledMaggie do you have visual problems or have you not watched the video? The helecopter clearly hit a cable or metal rod hanging down or are you suggesting that it was bent by some force yet undiscovered by science? Or perhapse it was shot down by the the the Bush family and the dark forces behind the new world order who seem to be blamed for all other conspiracy theories?
@MangledMaggie Sorry, to be less flipant, the reason the tail rotor appeared to "snap" was due to the gearing system that ensures the main rotor and tail rotor blade do not collide during normal flight. This effectively links the two via a gearbox the result of the suddent decelleration of the main rotor the drive shaft of the tail rotor collapsed. If you look at other videos of helecopters crashing this is not unusual.
@darknessesbane the powerplant in fukushima is 5 time bigger and stronger that the one in fukushima ... you are just saying that because you want thumbs .... man a little more respect to the japanese people please
This crew before was participating in Afghanistan war, so it was a team of military profesionals. Just before this final flight they asked a guy with a camera, a journalist from the local newspaper to make them a group photo, this photo you can see in the beginning of the video.
They all died in high levels of radiation in hospital after the fell.
So yes they did died, but not because of the crash!
@A7XShadowzx Sorry... the photographer left chernobyl after this photo, and returned couple of days later to chernobyl and he found out that the these guys on photo fell down, and they where okay in hospital, but not for too long, radiation had done its job.
@rosskrem There was only one person buried inside the sercophagus, so the people inside the helicopter probably got out(alive or.. probably dead) but i dont know about the helicopter.
@androidfighter these film was shot by a camera-man from west siberia, and his familyname was of ukranian orirgin, and who and from where were the pilots that had just came from afghanistan i don't really know and don't want to know, for there's no fuckin difference.
@SIG551P Um. Yes it does. Part of the reason spacecraft computer systems are expensive and several years behind current technology is because of exactly this.
@DigitalVG You have no idea what you are talking about? Space systems are expensive because they are incredibly complex, it has nothing to do with radiation. All the circuitry is shielded anyway.
The helicopter crashed because it go caught in the crane, it was pilot error.
@SIG551P It is true that you can launch equipment that is not rad-hardened into LEO. The Earth's magnetosphere does a good deal to shield them. However they have a much greater chance of having data errors due to radiation. Further from Earth you must use rad-hardened technologies and shielding. I was in fact a software engineer for an unmanned LEO mission and I do know what I am talking about, though I did not mean to imply this was the major cost.
@SIG551P Radiation can affect electrical systems, but it has to be in extremely large amounts such as with the detonation of a nuclear bomb or during a coronal mass ejection in space. Charged particles striking circuitry in large enough numbers can induce small currents.
I doubt the helicopter crash had anything to do with this however - it was error on the part of an unfortunate and probably scared pilot flying in difficult conditions.
@bigwhiteyeti actually they were directly positioned over the exposed burning core. The amount of radiation they were exposed to would have caused nearly immediate radiation sickness causing their central nervous systems to cease working properly. The crash was, in all likelihood, a direct effect of the radiation on the pilot and crew.
@bigwhiteyeti Not quite true. Small amounts of radiation can cause problems too. You only need one stray particle to cause memory corruption. Of course, I presume that like space-bound hardware, most military hardware probably has redundant systems so in order for the odds to be high enough to cause a disaster, you do need more radiation (or unfortunate hardware layout) However it is still possible and does happen.
The helicopter was flown in to drop water, clay and other things onto reactor 4 to help reduce the radiation.
But the crew was not told about the cloud of radiation spewing out of the reactor, so when the helicopter flew into the cloud he passed out, causing the helicopter to fly into the cables.
The chopper flew into a "radiation cloud", that's what brought it down. The pilots were instructed to drop water, sand and clay into the reactor but they were never told about the radiation clouds above the reactor.
Question?? If the heli decomposed like that, why didnt the crane ??? Thats an incredible video some shit youd never see or expect to happen them people watching were probly im shock like i was when my buddy showed me this
@jm1llzx im assuming the crane was made out of a more dense matierial, helicopters like this one are normally made from lightweight metals such as aluminium
In the context of this opportunity to learn; light is being shone on nuclear reactors around the world. in this new context - are they being found as safe? That's a big negative. The reactors in Japan ARE the "safest" in the world and look what is happening.
This technology is bad for the planet and bad for every living thing - that's why it will shortly be made redundant. Ask yourself would you feel safe being next to one now?
Most reactors are on coastlines - tsunamis happen everywhere.
@telemetry9 It should be noted that the reactors giving problems in Japan are about 40 years old. They are nowhere as safe as more modern reactors are. And while we are busy blaming nuclear energy, no-ones cares about the fact that coal-power kills a lot more people than nuclear does. Same thing with hydro.
well - it isn't just about human lives. When a coal fire burns at least the planet can recognize co2 and adjust to some extent - how does it adjust to nuclear radiation? Gamma rays are a sure fire way to destroying DNA - I'm sure I don't need to tell you what that means. Misery for future generations.
Coolant is the only way to control nuclear fission and coolant is dependent on external supply - what happens when that fails and then the backup fails. ?
@telemetry9 I'm not talking about CO2. When we burn coal, we are also spreading radioactivity. Not to mention people dying in mining coal. And with hydro, we have the risk of bursting dams.
Losing coolant is a risk in nuclear plants. Which is why we have backups, backups of backups and backups of those backups. Fukushima had inadequate backups, and they were notified of that several years ago.
@Zereniti77 "They are nowhere as safe as more modern reactors are." yeah, they always say some shit like this. just go and hear what russian nuclear auth. told before the level of japanese nuc. exc. became obvious. shortly: nothing happens and nothing will never ever happen at our lovely and so very safe NPSs. but in fact it is happening. the same shit as before chernobyl. they simply do not learn lessons, that's all. not even that NPS are unsafe, but this stupid fuckers are indeed.
@mda220v Fact is that 40 year old reactors are not as safe as modern reactors. Japanese were told years ago about shortcomings of these reactors. And fact is that coal-plants kill more people every year that nuclear power stations have killed in the last few decades. But of course those deaths do not matter, right? And if nuclear is so unsafe, why is the death-toll so low when compared to just about any other form of power-generation?
the potential is thousands of times more death than coal, and the radiation lasts for millions of years longer. we are leaving radiation as gifts to thousands of generations of descendants.
@the81kid According to WHO, pollution from coal-plants kills 1 million people every single year. And that does not include casualties from coal-mining. Compared to those statistics, nuclear is VERY safe. As to "leaving radiation". There are reactors that could use that waste as fuel, burning 99% of it. And the remaining 1% would be dangerous for only about 100 years, as opposed to thousands of years.
As to "potential" of more deaths... how many would die if Three Gorges Dam collapsed?
Coal doesn't leave radioactive byproduct for millions of years. Many things kill far more than nuclear (cars included). The potential is when the radiation is produced, released and uncontrollable. The dam will subside, it won't poison for millions of years.
@the81kid Like I already said, the waste could be used as fuel in reactors, reducing the amount of waste by 99%, and the remaining 1% would only be dangerous for only about 100 years. And coal-plants pump out more radioactivity than nuclear plants do.
Fact is that coal kills A LOT more people than nuclear does. I'm sorry if that fact does not fit in with your political agenda or worldview,but facts are facts. Instead of twisting world to your opinions, why not let the world adjust your opinion?
It does. Coal contains radionuclides as well, and those are not neatly sealed away underground after use, but released into the environment. "estimated radiation doses ingested by people living near the coal plants were equal to or higher than doses for people living around the nuclear facilities.", cited from "Coal ash is more radioactive than nuclear waste" on the Scientific American webpage.
@Zereniti77 I keep thinking there must be some use for spent fuel rods. They're still producing energy just not efficiently enough for a controlled reaction. But it seems like they could possibly be layered with something else to produce something like battery so that it's generating DC power for all the time of its half-life decay. We're burying them to keep their energy from escaping. We should figure out some way to harness that energy instead.
@Zereniti77 "But of course those deaths do not matter, right?" - those deaths are those deaths, and i talk about the shitheads who always make their desisions saying "NPS is just a simple water boiler", though it's not.
"if nuclear is so unsafe" - so or not so, but it IS unsafe, and it's normal, and it's normal to take it into count. you are stating the safety of the NPS - but what are you going to do with the spare fuel right now?
@mda220v Like it or not, nuclear power IS very safe. We have hundreds of plants that have been running for decades. In that time we have had three major accidents with about 10.000 deaths total. Compare that to coal, which kills 1.000.000 people EVERY SINGLE YEAR + all those miners who die while mining for the stuff.
What "spare fuel"? You mean the waste? Like I said, it could be used as fuel. We have the technology, but we lack the will.
@Zereniti77 like it or not, the so called mother of the russian towns is some 100km from chernobyl, and on mayday some 25 years back it was not even close to save there for millions. here in zhitomir, gomel, bryansk - we still do not need any other "facts", like it or not. the other point is that NPS is normal and there's no other way for now, though it is NOT safe. using plutonium as fuel could produce some uncomfortable crap first. we see that nuclear safety is more based on empirics))
@mda220v there is no form of power-generation that is absolitely, 100% safe in all circumstances. But fact is that nuclear power is safer than most. Coal kills 1.000.000 people _every single year_, bursting dams have killed people. Yet people don't get their panties in a bunch over them, why?
Had Chernobyl killed 1.000.000 people. it would only equal what coal power kills EVERY SINGLE YEAR. But apparently coal power is perfectly fine.
@Zereniti77 Nuclear power is easily one of the safest ways of producing power in the world (the best being solar) however if the reactor had a containment vessel and was in a capitalist country (no racism intended, but people were scared to admit they had screwed up) then it would have been much better.
@cranachanan The extremely rare metals that are required for solar panel construction are also environmentally unfriendly and dangerous to mine, releasing toxic elements.
@gezux1 I cant possibly see how the predicted (30 years) future cancer deaths as a result of Chernobyl ~34,000 maximum in the surrounding area alone, 2000 in the rest of Europe, is less then the deaths in mining rare metals for solar panels.
@gezux1 I think that guy, if you were referring to the site i found, missed a few numbers. 2000-4000 Deaths in Europe over 30 years was predicted from Chernobyl which was the only number he used in nuclear (significant number anyway). However 8000-34000 was predicted in the immediate area,primarily from people near the lake, and the evacuated population and he didn't use this statistic.
Regardless, i think the maths still works out in nuclear's favor.
@telemetry9 No really - tsunamis realistically only happen near fault lines. Had Japan built all their power plants on the Chinese side of the Island rather than the Pacific side... they'd have been much safer.
The crew knowingly sacrificed their lives trying to put out the fire as they going to die from the radiation and they did weeks afterwards - they were simply suicide missions. And I can't believe some people are joking about this one here, get some dignity!
Any pilot, no matter how experienced, would struggle to keep the helicopter clear of the crane while trying to aim for a relatively small space right next to it that is causing you disorientation, extreme nausea and unbearable pain. Radiation levels this high will have been cooking these brave souls alive trying to save others' lives, conscious pilot or unconscious pilot. Try driving with a headache and an upset stomach and you experience a miniscule fraction of what it must have been like.
I spoke to my physics teacher about this, he explained to me that the causes of this were the pilot losing conciousness from the high radiation levels in the air and the engine malfunctioned and some parts melted due to the same reason.
@StokeMidget that's bullshit. The pilot might have fainted but the as you can see in the video, the crash occured due to the helicopter flying into one of the crane's wires causing the rotary blades to break.
Everything in this life happens for a reason. God is telling us that nuclear power is NOT safe.
The safest and most robust nuclear power stations in the world are in Japan. .
Nuclear power is not safe in an inherently unpredictable and chaotic world.
Here in the UK - nuclear power is increasingly attractive to some. Perhaps what will happen in the next few days will open eyes to the reality of nuclear power. "Safe" + nuclear power = irradiated planet earth. It is not worth the cost.
@telemetry9 god this god that ... so what is god trying to tell us with the the hurricanes in new orleans ... that black people are not good for the world ??? or the tsunami in sri lanka, that the indians are not good people??? or the earthquake in new zealand ... that we should to eating KIWI??? stop that bullshit with GOD and some other fairytales ... wow such a big pile of shit ...
Your use of language is a good indicator of what you believe in. Respecting other people's beliefs is a positive. I'm not sure were you are coming from - mostly anger and bitterness. God is love.
@telemetry9 its already nonsense to discuss with you if you talk about respect ... people believing in god and talking about respect is funny ... you show absolutley no respect to other religions or people not believing in god
Nuclear power is one of the safest. You should Google a bit. There are well over 2000 nuclear stations in the world, and total death toll for them all is about 100 in 70 years.
the timescales of our planet are not measured in decades. As you know they are measured in billions of years - but even that is conjecture. What is certain is
R.I.P. heroes of the world...all people that contribute to Chernobyl clean up should be honored for life... and seven generations blessed...
sale5555 3 days ago
@siscog93 The helicopter didn't melt. It's rotors hit the crane, causing it to crash. The radiation at Chernobyl at the time could not melt an airborne helicopter.
Grimmomega 2 weeks ago
Shit. R.I.P. Creepy as fuck.
09204418448 1 month ago
The Ukrainian filmmaker Vladimir Shevchenko captured film footage of an Mi-8 helicopter as it collided with a nearby construction crane, causing the helicopter to fall near the damaged reactor building and killing its four-man crew.
AlexLuckett 1 month ago
Song in the beginning lyrics translation:
So we stood together, with friends
In the breaks between fights (battles).
On land and on the seas.
And we went where the orders told us to go.
Stand up, photographer, come to the middle!
And take a photo of us when we stand together (hugging)
Perhaps, on this photo
We will be together, for the last time.
MarxTheGamerDude 1 month ago
The helicopter doesn't melt. Its rotors hit the cable from the crane and down she goes...
JPVee511 1 month ago
imagine the emotions there... trying so hard to cover that leak and then the helicopter falls into it
KohviKruus 1 month ago
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Мы ездили дикарём на своём джипе в Зону этой весной. Возле входа на территорию саркофага на хвост сели менты, еле смылись. Объезжали браконьерскими тропами блокпосты, нежданно-негаданно нашли чемодан с деньгами. Ролик "Прорыв к Саркофагу 4 реактора Чернобыльской АЭС" можете посмотреть у меня на странице. Полный отчёт о поездке - в блоге по ссылке в описании под роликом
Guldenn 2 months ago
that helicopter melted almost instantly in mid-air within seconds......that is very scary. R.I.P for the heroes of chernobyl.
siscog93 2 months ago
Светлая память ликвидаторам ЧАЭС
Sanek1935 2 months ago
i want to know the song! Its so beautifull! But i am really sorry for this pilots.. They are martyrs
tamtammr 3 months ago
what is the name of the song? any one please share!
bennyleominster 3 months ago
Heroes of Humanity
blackapple89er 3 months ago
The one in the middle, ( the man who has his hands in the jacket pockets , is the General Nikolai Tarakanov, he didn't died in the helicopter crash, in fact he is alive and living in russia, he got old, and i think he has cancer, the cancer is the product of beeing in chernobyl trying to save the planet...... he is another anonymus hero !!!!!!
JFerrerMontiel 3 months ago
@JFerrerMontiel His cancer is possibly from being in Chernobyl, you can't say for certain he got it from his work at the reactor complex.
Dallas8844 2 months ago
anyone know the title of this song?
zygmund18 3 months ago
i'm not russian or anything but why does every video turn into a huge fight
the pilots of the helicopter were trying to put our the reactor with water and they are heroes for doing so.
omgmynameislong 4 months ago
i HATE HELICOPTERS.
salmojack 4 months ago
It's understandable. Doing work of worldly importance flying over invisible death... way too stressful for mortals like us.
UnitedCorpOfAmerica 4 months ago
blackhawk down, blackhawk down!!!!
suparetusiman 5 months ago
was it crashed by radioactivity? it's so horrible...
leesanghada 5 months ago
@leesanghada Pilot error.
FortitudeOfHeaven 5 months ago
@leesanghada helicopter rotors was hit by line attahed to crane
sremil2011 5 months ago
wtf!
EagleEye517 6 months ago in playlist News
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It could be the radiation that made the pilot lose control of the helicopter and hit the crane cables, i have no othe explanations than this.. poor pilot :/
DeadHandsome25 6 months ago
as i understand the pilot died bcs of radiation
jamexxxxxx 6 months ago
@jamexxxxxx no the pilot died when he flew his helecopter into a steel cable which caused it to hit the ground and explode into a ball of flames!
graeme140677 6 months ago
LOL Dumbass Russians
Mrcowboynorris 7 months ago
@Mrcowboynorris go fuck yourself fucking troll, Russian people saved the world by fixing there misstake while your ignorant ass doesnt have any guts that every Liquidator have.
egdqv13234 7 months ago 35
@egdqv13234
Russians didn't fix shit. They quarantined the area and built the sarcophagi. Oh, people are still dying in the Ukraine from the disaster, but Russian officials refuse to help them get medical treatment because there hasn't been any reports published that explicitly state the Chernobyl disaster had anything to do with it....well, by Russian doctors at least....but miraculously the rest of the world has linked the incidents many,many times.
Learn your fucking history.
mypiratehat 6 months ago
@mypiratehat The chernobyl disaster was a big trategy, russias saved your fuckign asses meanwhile ur talking shit japan is in nuclear disaster and seems like your fucking ''freedom nation'' aint doing JACK shit to help peaople of japan litterly BEGD for ur ignorant asses to help. Learn your fucking history asshole. meanwhile im schooling you with this faceslap. Russians DID SAVE the world from there misstake. other than that your just a fucking ungreatful ignorant asshole. go fuck yourself.
egdqv13234 6 months ago 5
@egdqv13234 Hold up who saved who now if you learned your history you would find that without the European Bank for Reconstruction and Developments shelter fund that i must add that russia pays nothing to its payed by the eu Ukraine and the usa the sarcophagus would collapse the usa has been there from the early 90s fixing russias problem as of 2010 russia have washed there hands of the disaster they created it was not just russians on the day of the disaster who saved the day
carsieplg 3 months ago
@carsieplg HAVE you even read my comment? if not please try to underrstand, who is hero and why otherwise your just talking out of your rear sir. or better yet GO and SEE the info about the disaster ow and united nations provide help? no shit that aint a newsflash and ofcourse they have to since the radiation dust reached allmost every country in europe. ur talking mostly about Chernobyl forum aka world bank. and besideds if all countrys put togeather non of them have GUTS of a Liquidator.
egdqv13234 3 months ago
@carsieplg ow and my bad, if u dont understand let me tell u that im not saying that russians are the only heroes, russians are a part of help that provides chernobyl. Ofcourse there are europe nations and mostly Belarus Ukraine and Russian federation plus help of europe. Respect to that, another thing u wanted to know who i ment by saying ''Heroes'' thoes are the people who sacraficed them selves in order to protect the future that is behaind them. aka Liquidators. PERIOD
egdqv13234 3 months ago
@mypiratehat
My god you fucking retard, purchase a dictionary.
mypiratehat 6 months ago
@mypiratehat purchase a brain.
TheCheezWizz 6 months ago
@TheCheezWizz
Purchase a dictionary. My brain works fine, asspie.
mypiratehat 6 months ago
@mypiratehat It's apparently not working well enough for you to act like a normal human being.
TheCheezWizz 6 months ago
@egdqv13234 ukrainian people who got fucked by the russians.
chillaxer1993 3 months ago
@egdqv13234 You realy think Liquidators had ANY choice on the matter? they were FORCED to do it. It was either that or get shot by 10 men lined up. Get your facts straight.
Ullip12 2 months ago
@Mrcowboynorris If that was in Argentina, there would be no Argentina at all. So don't screw with heroicly died people.
djagoegei18 6 months ago
Fuckers kept every thing so secret. Took then a whole fucking day to tell everyone that there's an unbearable amount of radiation around.
railpressureflip 7 months ago
Why did it crash?
Halterung01 7 months ago
@Halterung01 it probably hit a cable on the crane
mogeura 7 months ago
Looks like the helicopter rotors hit the crane cables not a cloud of radiation.....
Craneman7241 7 months ago
It's so scary to see what some elements can do when exposed to the earth, if those radiation clouds did that do a helicopter in seconds, just think of what it could of done to the world and all of us if it was not at least semi contained. We are all lucky to have our health and should thank those who risked and continue to risk their lives for our freedom and health worldwide.
vdeokildradeostr 8 months ago
@vdeokildradeostr Surely it's clear to see that the helecopter rotor blades hit a steel cable hanging down - or are you visually impared?
graeme140677 7 months ago
@graeme140677 then why did the end of the copter bend, it didn't hit anything.
MangledMaggie 6 months ago
@MangledMaggie do you have visual problems or have you not watched the video? The helecopter clearly hit a cable or metal rod hanging down or are you suggesting that it was bent by some force yet undiscovered by science? Or perhapse it was shot down by the the the Bush family and the dark forces behind the new world order who seem to be blamed for all other conspiracy theories?
graeme140677 6 months ago
@MangledMaggie Sorry, to be less flipant, the reason the tail rotor appeared to "snap" was due to the gearing system that ensures the main rotor and tail rotor blade do not collide during normal flight. This effectively links the two via a gearbox the result of the suddent decelleration of the main rotor the drive shaft of the tail rotor collapsed. If you look at other videos of helecopters crashing this is not unusual.
graeme140677 6 months ago
@graeme140677 learned somethin new. thanks
MangledMaggie 6 months ago
He hit a radiation cloud which is basically SUPER dense air.
OoLenny40oO 8 months ago
@OoLenny40oO Surely it's clear to see the helecopter rotor blades hit a steel cable hanging down - or are you visually impared?
graeme140677 7 months ago
@graeme140677 Ah yes, stupid physics teacher, thank you for pointing that out to me and please forgive me for my ignorance.....
OoLenny40oO 7 months ago
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Mrcowboynorris 8 months ago
what's the name of the song,please???is so good...
TheLatingangs 8 months ago
Fukushima would be contained by now if they had half the guts the people at Chernobyl had.
darknessesbane 8 months ago 3
@darknessesbane the powerplant in fukushima is 5 time bigger and stronger that the one in fukushima ... you are just saying that because you want thumbs .... man a little more respect to the japanese people please
tiagotre1 6 months ago
THE THING IS THEY DIDNT DIE!!!!! I Know the story...
KohviKruus 8 months ago
@KohviKruus Are you out of your fucking mind? They died all right, it's as clear as day on this video, and also it's on the monument in Chernobyl.
These brave men should be honoured as true heroes, and should be worshipped way more than people like Rihanna and Shitney Spears.
I salute you brave, heroic men. I wouldn't have the balls to do what they did and neither could most of the world. R.I.P
A7XShadowzx 8 months ago
@A7XShadowzx
This crew before was participating in Afghanistan war, so it was a team of military profesionals. Just before this final flight they asked a guy with a camera, a journalist from the local newspaper to make them a group photo, this photo you can see in the beginning of the video.
They all died in high levels of radiation in hospital after the fell.
So yes they did died, but not because of the crash!
KohviKruus 8 months ago
@KohviKruus Why didn't you say that then? I thought you were denying their actual death, lol.
A7XShadowzx 8 months ago
@A7XShadowzx Sorry... the photographer left chernobyl after this photo, and returned couple of days later to chernobyl and he found out that the these guys on photo fell down, and they where okay in hospital, but not for too long, radiation had done its job.
KohviKruus 8 months ago
@KohviKruus It's alright. Yeah, it's such a shame because they were true heroes, they sacrificed themselves for the safety of others.
A7XShadowzx 8 months ago 2
@KohviKruus are u talking about the helicopter crew? no they were killed instanly upon impact
FlyingCows88 7 months ago
0:35 imagine that guy was scared on death
SuperM1998 9 months ago
18 years over...
ThePrzemekczech1 9 months ago
Those people were true heroes. RIP
Skatox 9 months ago 33
hell
Sandsevsk 9 months ago
25 years RIP
xoxoJGWS 9 months ago
Very sad that this happened. Those are real heroes of this world. :(
rnf92 9 months ago 2
A part of the propeler is a monument for those who died in that crash. It's near the fire station in the town of Chernobyl.
Great respect for those brave soldiers. [*]
GBrzeczyszczykiewicz 9 months ago
whatever happened to that wreckage? is that in the sarcophagus too? or did they drag that away?
rosskrem 9 months ago
@rosskrem There was only one person buried inside the sercophagus, so the people inside the helicopter probably got out(alive or.. probably dead) but i dont know about the helicopter.
xoxoJGWS 9 months ago
RIP
xXCoOKieMONsT3r 9 months ago
the chopper just hitted the crane cabels it has nothing to do bout radiation
f33lth30wns 10 months ago
Жалко мужиков, мало того что облучились вдоволь, ещо так .........
tags77777 10 months ago
This was a very brave pilot to be so low and close despite how deadly getting so close would be.... May he Rest In Peace
DraughtRelief 10 months ago
Dumb Ass Russians
sicknooob 10 months ago
@sicknooob So what are you called when you call Ukrainians Russians?
androidfighter 10 months ago
@androidfighter these film was shot by a camera-man from west siberia, and his familyname was of ukranian orirgin, and who and from where were the pilots that had just came from afghanistan i don't really know and don't want to know, for there's no fuckin difference.
mda220v 10 months ago
how is that happend???
zircornes 10 months ago
why did the helecopter just bend? was it because of the radiation?
TwistedDoomGuy 10 months ago
@TwistedDoomGuy
The blades hit wires and or the crane, the back never bends it's just the angle
stdjunior 10 months ago
@stdjunior ok.
TwistedDoomGuy 10 months ago
1 on 1
anabeckham90 10 months ago
Helicopter crash on an open reactor core... Just when you thought things couldn't suck more
McFlanker 10 months ago
dont get it. Why dod i crash?
RoyceZ1 10 months ago
@RoyceZ1 the pilot wasn't told of the radiation cloud over the nuclear reactors and he flew into it, causing the helicopter to malfunction.
potatochan 10 months ago
@potatochan You idiot, radiation does not cause equipment malfunctions.
SIG551P 10 months ago
@SIG551P Um. Yes it does. Part of the reason spacecraft computer systems are expensive and several years behind current technology is because of exactly this.
DigitalVG 10 months ago
@DigitalVG You have no idea what you are talking about? Space systems are expensive because they are incredibly complex, it has nothing to do with radiation. All the circuitry is shielded anyway.
The helicopter crashed because it go caught in the crane, it was pilot error.
SIG551P 10 months ago
@SIG551P It is true that you can launch equipment that is not rad-hardened into LEO. The Earth's magnetosphere does a good deal to shield them. However they have a much greater chance of having data errors due to radiation. Further from Earth you must use rad-hardened technologies and shielding. I was in fact a software engineer for an unmanned LEO mission and I do know what I am talking about, though I did not mean to imply this was the major cost.
DigitalVG 10 months ago
@SIG551P You will also note I did not say that radiation was the cause of this crash. Only that it can cause equipment failures.
The official report is that they helicopter hit the cable and I see no reason to disagree with that. Particularly not from a grainy youtube video.
DigitalVG 10 months ago
@SIG551P Radiation can affect electrical systems, but it has to be in extremely large amounts such as with the detonation of a nuclear bomb or during a coronal mass ejection in space. Charged particles striking circuitry in large enough numbers can induce small currents.
I doubt the helicopter crash had anything to do with this however - it was error on the part of an unfortunate and probably scared pilot flying in difficult conditions.
bigwhiteyeti 10 months ago
@bigwhiteyeti actually they were directly positioned over the exposed burning core. The amount of radiation they were exposed to would have caused nearly immediate radiation sickness causing their central nervous systems to cease working properly. The crash was, in all likelihood, a direct effect of the radiation on the pilot and crew.
Valicore 10 months ago
@Valicore the best explanation,
DeadHandsome25 6 months ago
@bigwhiteyeti Not quite true. Small amounts of radiation can cause problems too. You only need one stray particle to cause memory corruption. Of course, I presume that like space-bound hardware, most military hardware probably has redundant systems so in order for the odds to be high enough to cause a disaster, you do need more radiation (or unfortunate hardware layout) However it is still possible and does happen.
DigitalVG 10 months ago
@mda220v: No you shut up son. Go back to school and learn something.
drbobvs 10 months ago
The helicopter was flown in to drop water, clay and other things onto reactor 4 to help reduce the radiation.
But the crew was not told about the cloud of radiation spewing out of the reactor, so when the helicopter flew into the cloud he passed out, causing the helicopter to fly into the cables.
Dalemoooooon 10 months ago
@amirio2
youre rite..
Zelfontier 10 months ago
The chopper flew into a "radiation cloud", that's what brought it down. The pilots were instructed to drop water, sand and clay into the reactor but they were never told about the radiation clouds above the reactor.
drbobvs 10 months ago 2
@drbobvs just shut up and go back to your "chernobyl video games".
mda220v 10 months ago
@mda220v Yea, thats actually what happened, dipshit.
alteredgrind 10 months ago
the baldes hit the cables of the crane... you can see it
amirio2 10 months ago
Why is everyone always trying to shoot down my chopper gunner?
pennjersey83 10 months ago
god this is horrible :(
hippiegirlatheart 10 months ago
Respect from Romania! People from Chernobyl were heroes!!!
ROG4M3R 10 months ago 2
Yea i guess, that makes sense
jm1llzx 10 months ago
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hahaha lol...
looks like Battlefield: bad company 2
rotenburk 10 months ago
@rotenburk Retard
barzda001 10 months ago
Black hawk down!!
rotenburk 10 months ago
Question?? If the heli decomposed like that, why didnt the crane ??? Thats an incredible video some shit youd never see or expect to happen them people watching were probly im shock like i was when my buddy showed me this
jm1llzx 10 months ago
@jm1llzx im assuming the crane was made out of a more dense matierial, helicopters like this one are normally made from lightweight metals such as aluminium
cbasswonderland 10 months ago
That just sucks.
firefox335 10 months ago
omfg =( r.i.p
DamiShaman2 10 months ago
what the hell just happened?
mickeyyeung0528 10 months ago
@mickeyyeung0528 the copter ran into a wire.
sanctainquisitio 10 months ago
@sanctainquisitio passed out from radiation first
popwarfour 10 months ago
In the context of this opportunity to learn; light is being shone on nuclear reactors around the world. in this new context - are they being found as safe? That's a big negative. The reactors in Japan ARE the "safest" in the world and look what is happening.
This technology is bad for the planet and bad for every living thing - that's why it will shortly be made redundant. Ask yourself would you feel safe being next to one now?
Most reactors are on coastlines - tsunamis happen everywhere.
telemetry9 10 months ago
@telemetry9 It should be noted that the reactors giving problems in Japan are about 40 years old. They are nowhere as safe as more modern reactors are. And while we are busy blaming nuclear energy, no-ones cares about the fact that coal-power kills a lot more people than nuclear does. Same thing with hydro.
Zereniti77 10 months ago
hey,
well - it isn't just about human lives. When a coal fire burns at least the planet can recognize co2 and adjust to some extent - how does it adjust to nuclear radiation? Gamma rays are a sure fire way to destroying DNA - I'm sure I don't need to tell you what that means. Misery for future generations.
Coolant is the only way to control nuclear fission and coolant is dependent on external supply - what happens when that fails and then the backup fails. ?
Heatsinks? i don't think so.
telemetry9 10 months ago
@telemetry9 I'm not talking about CO2. When we burn coal, we are also spreading radioactivity. Not to mention people dying in mining coal. And with hydro, we have the risk of bursting dams.
Losing coolant is a risk in nuclear plants. Which is why we have backups, backups of backups and backups of those backups. Fukushima had inadequate backups, and they were notified of that several years ago.
Zereniti77 10 months ago
@Zereniti77 "They are nowhere as safe as more modern reactors are." yeah, they always say some shit like this. just go and hear what russian nuclear auth. told before the level of japanese nuc. exc. became obvious. shortly: nothing happens and nothing will never ever happen at our lovely and so very safe NPSs. but in fact it is happening. the same shit as before chernobyl. they simply do not learn lessons, that's all. not even that NPS are unsafe, but this stupid fuckers are indeed.
mda220v 10 months ago
@mda220v: You compare Fukushima to Chernobyl? Please read more about nuclear energy.
makos007 10 months ago
@mda220v Fact is that 40 year old reactors are not as safe as modern reactors. Japanese were told years ago about shortcomings of these reactors. And fact is that coal-plants kill more people every year that nuclear power stations have killed in the last few decades. But of course those deaths do not matter, right? And if nuclear is so unsafe, why is the death-toll so low when compared to just about any other form of power-generation?
Zereniti77 10 months ago
@Zereniti77
the potential is thousands of times more death than coal, and the radiation lasts for millions of years longer. we are leaving radiation as gifts to thousands of generations of descendants.
the81kid 10 months ago
@the81kid According to WHO, pollution from coal-plants kills 1 million people every single year. And that does not include casualties from coal-mining. Compared to those statistics, nuclear is VERY safe. As to "leaving radiation". There are reactors that could use that waste as fuel, burning 99% of it. And the remaining 1% would be dangerous for only about 100 years, as opposed to thousands of years.
As to "potential" of more deaths... how many would die if Three Gorges Dam collapsed?
Zereniti77 10 months ago
@Zereniti77
Coal doesn't leave radioactive byproduct for millions of years. Many things kill far more than nuclear (cars included). The potential is when the radiation is produced, released and uncontrollable. The dam will subside, it won't poison for millions of years.
the81kid 10 months ago
@the81kid Like I already said, the waste could be used as fuel in reactors, reducing the amount of waste by 99%, and the remaining 1% would only be dangerous for only about 100 years. And coal-plants pump out more radioactivity than nuclear plants do.
Fact is that coal kills A LOT more people than nuclear does. I'm sorry if that fact does not fit in with your political agenda or worldview,but facts are facts. Instead of twisting world to your opinions, why not let the world adjust your opinion?
Zereniti77 10 months ago
@the81kid
It does. Coal contains radionuclides as well, and those are not neatly sealed away underground after use, but released into the environment. "estimated radiation doses ingested by people living near the coal plants were equal to or higher than doses for people living around the nuclear facilities.", cited from "Coal ash is more radioactive than nuclear waste" on the Scientific American webpage.
Thedutchjelle 10 months ago
@Zereniti77 I keep thinking there must be some use for spent fuel rods. They're still producing energy just not efficiently enough for a controlled reaction. But it seems like they could possibly be layered with something else to produce something like battery so that it's generating DC power for all the time of its half-life decay. We're burying them to keep their energy from escaping. We should figure out some way to harness that energy instead.
DigitalVG 10 months ago
@Zereniti77 "But of course those deaths do not matter, right?" - those deaths are those deaths, and i talk about the shitheads who always make their desisions saying "NPS is just a simple water boiler", though it's not.
"if nuclear is so unsafe" - so or not so, but it IS unsafe, and it's normal, and it's normal to take it into count. you are stating the safety of the NPS - but what are you going to do with the spare fuel right now?
mda220v 10 months ago
@mda220v Like it or not, nuclear power IS very safe. We have hundreds of plants that have been running for decades. In that time we have had three major accidents with about 10.000 deaths total. Compare that to coal, which kills 1.000.000 people EVERY SINGLE YEAR + all those miners who die while mining for the stuff.
What "spare fuel"? You mean the waste? Like I said, it could be used as fuel. We have the technology, but we lack the will.
Hint: You should base your opinion on facts.
Zereniti77 10 months ago
@Zereniti77 like it or not, the so called mother of the russian towns is some 100km from chernobyl, and on mayday some 25 years back it was not even close to save there for millions. here in zhitomir, gomel, bryansk - we still do not need any other "facts", like it or not. the other point is that NPS is normal and there's no other way for now, though it is NOT safe. using plutonium as fuel could produce some uncomfortable crap first. we see that nuclear safety is more based on empirics))
mda220v 10 months ago
@mda220v there is no form of power-generation that is absolitely, 100% safe in all circumstances. But fact is that nuclear power is safer than most. Coal kills 1.000.000 people _every single year_, bursting dams have killed people. Yet people don't get their panties in a bunch over them, why?
Had Chernobyl killed 1.000.000 people. it would only equal what coal power kills EVERY SINGLE YEAR. But apparently coal power is perfectly fine.
Zereniti77 10 months ago
@Zereniti77 Nuclear power is easily one of the safest ways of producing power in the world (the best being solar) however if the reactor had a containment vessel and was in a capitalist country (no racism intended, but people were scared to admit they had screwed up) then it would have been much better.
cranachanan 9 months ago
@cranachanan Nope Nuclear is responsible for less deaths per TWh produced than solar
gezux1 9 months ago
@gezux1 solar power kills people? how?
cranachanan 9 months ago
@cranachanan The extremely rare metals that are required for solar panel construction are also environmentally unfriendly and dangerous to mine, releasing toxic elements.
Energy Source Death Rate (deaths per TWh)
Solar (rooftop) 0.44
Wind 0.15
Hydro 0.10
Hydro - world including Banqiao) 1.4
Nuclear 0.04
gezux1 9 months ago
@gezux1 I cant possibly see how the predicted (30 years) future cancer deaths as a result of Chernobyl ~34,000 maximum in the surrounding area alone, 2000 in the rest of Europe, is less then the deaths in mining rare metals for solar panels.
SethReborn1 8 months ago
@SethReborn1 Google "Deaths per TWH by energy source"
gezux1 8 months ago
@gezux1 I think that guy, if you were referring to the site i found, missed a few numbers. 2000-4000 Deaths in Europe over 30 years was predicted from Chernobyl which was the only number he used in nuclear (significant number anyway). However 8000-34000 was predicted in the immediate area,primarily from people near the lake, and the evacuated population and he didn't use this statistic.
Regardless, i think the maths still works out in nuclear's favor.
SethReborn1 8 months ago
@telemetry9 No really - tsunamis realistically only happen near fault lines. Had Japan built all their power plants on the Chinese side of the Island rather than the Pacific side... they'd have been much safer.
richardeast 10 months ago
the hali just decomposed within seconds :o
MysteryBiker123 10 months ago
@MysteryBiker123 - and you find that funny, you stupid cunt?
matteoprez 10 months ago
@matteoprez did i say it was funny ??? NO !
MysteryBiker123 10 months ago
heroes! rest in peace!
Oxide333500 10 months ago
credo che hanno salvato tante vite. Semplicemente EROI
pierpaolosposato 10 months ago
Heroes. Unforgettable heroes.
hatchedarea 10 months ago
The crew knowingly sacrificed their lives trying to put out the fire as they going to die from the radiation and they did weeks afterwards - they were simply suicide missions. And I can't believe some people are joking about this one here, get some dignity!
mancity1000 10 months ago 2
True heros. RIP.
WarWolfs 10 months ago 3
Any pilot, no matter how experienced, would struggle to keep the helicopter clear of the crane while trying to aim for a relatively small space right next to it that is causing you disorientation, extreme nausea and unbearable pain. Radiation levels this high will have been cooking these brave souls alive trying to save others' lives, conscious pilot or unconscious pilot. Try driving with a headache and an upset stomach and you experience a miniscule fraction of what it must have been like.
MsFrankie0 10 months ago 40
@MsFrankie0 It's nice to see someone say something that makes sense. For some reason some don't understand what radiation levels such as these can do
olvanish 10 months ago
@MsFrankie0 they didnt say to him that it was that much radiation.. idiots
kanneebannee 10 months ago
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Is the crane okay?
tshalverson 10 months ago
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Thumbs up if you came to this video because of the Fukushima nuclear plant... May God bless Japan during these tragic events...
Enoy619 10 months ago
Thumbs up if you came to this video because of the Fukushima nuclear plant... May God bless Japan during these tragic events...
Enoy619 10 months ago
LETS HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR THE CAMERA MAN.... LOL/SMH THAT I LOL'D ....
theCraynzz 10 months ago
truly horrific
PlumpTiger 10 months ago
I spoke to my physics teacher about this, he explained to me that the causes of this were the pilot losing conciousness from the high radiation levels in the air and the engine malfunctioned and some parts melted due to the same reason.
StokeMidget 10 months ago
@StokeMidget that's bullshit. The pilot might have fainted but the as you can see in the video, the crash occured due to the helicopter flying into one of the crane's wires causing the rotary blades to break.
gikiryu 10 months ago
@gikiryu ok, hush. not my words. I just asked. :P
StokeMidget 10 months ago
i thought they flew into the crane.
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@makecba
100 in 70 years eh? so you're just going to excuse the millions that die to fallout? I love your logic.
ArestotleAP 10 months ago
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Lol, GroundFags were super Jelly, but not anymores! If only they Lieked Mudkipz. I herd thay deedn't liek Mudkipz.
Lol, fuck it. This is fake anyway. /B/RETHREN!
kmart641 10 months ago
Heroic men, one and all.
spacecowboynj 10 months ago
Everything in this life happens for a reason. God is telling us that nuclear power is NOT safe.
The safest and most robust nuclear power stations in the world are in Japan. .
Nuclear power is not safe in an inherently unpredictable and chaotic world.
Here in the UK - nuclear power is increasingly attractive to some. Perhaps what will happen in the next few days will open eyes to the reality of nuclear power. "Safe" + nuclear power = irradiated planet earth. It is not worth the cost.
telemetry9 10 months ago
@telemetry9 god this god that ... so what is god trying to tell us with the the hurricanes in new orleans ... that black people are not good for the world ??? or the tsunami in sri lanka, that the indians are not good people??? or the earthquake in new zealand ... that we should to eating KIWI??? stop that bullshit with GOD and some other fairytales ... wow such a big pile of shit ...
JEDEJOMANJE 10 months ago
@JEDEJOMANJE sri lanka & india: different people, different countries:)
zahrans 10 months ago
Your use of language is a good indicator of what you believe in. Respecting other people's beliefs is a positive. I'm not sure were you are coming from - mostly anger and bitterness. God is love.
telemetry9 10 months ago
@telemetry9 its already nonsense to discuss with you if you talk about respect ... people believing in god and talking about respect is funny ... you show absolutley no respect to other religions or people not believing in god
JEDEJOMANJE 10 months ago
@telemetry9 In these days he's loving much Japan.
sanctainquisitio 10 months ago
@telemetry9
Nuclear power is one of the safest. You should Google a bit. There are well over 2000 nuclear stations in the world, and total death toll for them all is about 100 in 70 years.
Really unsafe.
makecba 10 months ago
@makecba only 100 in 70 years?
please enlighten yourself instead of sprouting pure BS.
a (full) read the wiki page of the chernobyl disaster will dissaprove your somewhat foolish, more likely ignorant claim...
zahrans 10 months ago
the timescales of our planet are not measured in decades. As you know they are measured in billions of years - but even that is conjecture. What is certain is