Helicopter Crash on Aircraft Carrier

[AMcneilBuffalo]

erm i am rich now

[BettyeJaneanqg215]

so cute girl waiting to be discovered

[KeniaDarlaho957]

also sensual girl here just for you baby

[MrShreka]

well the pilot must be a complete dick.

[Tyler193]

by the way not an aircraft carrier it is a fantail of either a destroyer or a friggit

[zukofan2]

MY ROFLCOPTER GOES SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI S-----Ahhh!!!

[MrAwesomeness510]

Heres are tip: If  your chopper starts turning, thats a bad thing. choppers are not supposed to turn.

[kevjay777]

If everyone walked away, it was a good landing.

[bombarderoazul]

that's not an aircraft carrier, it's the back of a cruiser or a destroyer.

[MilhausMN]

No one's fault? How old was that helo at the time it crashed, 35 years? Someone was definitely at fault and he is probably a retired Admiral collecting a fat retirement..

[yammy071]

sharks love when this happens

funny pilot

[TheOnlyInformant]

@yammy071 Really asshole? These men and women are protecting our rights whether in the U.S. or the U.K. and you want to make jokes about these kinds of incidents? You are a sick person... Plus it wasn't the pilot's damned fault, it was a structural failure as said in one of the top comments...

[veryfewpsdtutorials]

you see so many videos like this in youtube, but never hear about it in the news, the MOD and whatever they have in the USA must really try keep these secret, with the exception of the recent crash between a french and british nuke subs

[maxkiller98]

@veryfewpsdtutorials Or Fox news is just busy reporting about Casey Anthoney or the Polar Bears. Either way, this is a sad incident.

[theFPSIreland]

Ok, too many people seem to be making jokes from this, it's not funny people can and do easily die in accidents like this.

[sikofu2]

you get a thumbs down for calling a destroyer a aircraft carrier

[normadamous]

@sikofu2

yeah -- that's one SMALL carrier!!

[1968drale]

bravo, stupid USA HI HI HI HI HI

[smoshfan117]

Damn a 9 kill streak for nothing.

[smoshfan117]

Emp

[troymcklure2002]

This is not an aircraft carrier.

[b3n2121]

i was thinking even if he did like still stay on the boat and not fall into the water, if i was the pilot i would of been like "still landed it"

[steveo451]

@b3n2121 pish that was what i ment to do.

[itellyouall]

it is not an aircraft carrier landing.

[daxureisidiot]

In Capitalist America, helicopter flies you

[sk8r129103]

winning!

[The007sanjeev]

JUSTIN BIEBER-CHUCK NORRIS-WILL IT BLEND?-THUMPS UP- BRIAN DONT-

[artyenemy]

nope



[djjoelb48]

"damn...almost had it."

[Kristiants1]

@djjoelb48 "RESET"

[akathepackage]

that's not a carrier

[Kristiants1]

@saf768 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[justaman6972]

wow that sucked!

[TURBOPOE]

not a air craft carrier.

[Whiskerfish1]

Nobody died in this mishap. I was involved in the investigation and miraculously everyone got out safely. there was a mechanical failure in the structure that supported the driveshaft where it disconnects when the tail pylon is folded for ship board operation. That structural failure allowed the disconnect to go out of alignment and cause a failure of the disconnect. Nobodies fault just old equipment.

[no1butmeau]

@Whiskerfish1 wasnt that the australian chopper 1 bloke died in that and they borrowed some equipment from the yanks to recover his body 2 miles down ?

[Whiskerfish1]

@no1butmeau

Nobody died. There was a Foreign Officer onboard and If I recall right he was part of an exchange program and he was slated to become the Ship's new Exec Officer (not 100% certain on that) . He survived. We did recover parts of the Aircraft for the investigation.

[kgboy72]

@Whiskerfish1 Isn't it someone's fault that they did not buy a new equipment? :-/

[TheAdmiralPancake]

@Whiskerfish1

Isn't it the fault of the person who's supposed to check the old equipment?

[Whiskerfish1]

@TheAdmiralPancake

Yes ultimately the blame was place with the Depot Level Overhaul of the helo that was done a decade prior to the mishap. Field level maintainers do not have the Jigs and tools necessary to check the alignment of the frame sections back there.

[dkinghl]

pilot wont die ,absolutely .just wonder how much money for all of this and what will happen to him

[linedriver1]

it`s a frigate!!

[75niteowl]

@linedriver1 It's not a frigate, it's a Spruance class DD. You can clearly see Seasparrow, 5" and RAM (aft stbd.) I served on one of these back in the day. Great ships! I miss them tin cans... And the ship appears to be making steerage way, so no "deadspot." Looks to me like the tail rotor lost power. It looks like the helo's tail was yawing left on approach, before it lost control. I dunno, but that's what it looks like to me. Good vid but above all, glad no one was hurt!

[sweetypic]

this is a pavelow or?

[Wendigo127]

@sweetypic

sea king

[Tehnubwaffle]

in soviet russia, coppers drive you!

[matthewloverink]

Folks, just wanted to point out that no one died here, the longer video of the video shows the helicopter floating upside down for 14 minutes. All the passengers and crew got out, one sprained wrist was all.

[freqeist]

@matthewloverink you are incorrect sir.

[Stealthgato]

Jesus, it wasn't bad enough it crashing on the deck, it had to fall in the water...

[ABCMATTISSOMMER]

for everyone THESE PERSONS ARE DEAD

[jimrobmicah]

@ABCMATTISSOMMER And?

[ABCMATTISSOMMER]

@jimrobmicah because many people make fun of it but they dont realize that they see people dying .

[Baphamatt]

@ellimemtz how much for your children?

[romeodaphne]

It looks like a destroyer helo deck not a bird farm.

[GreatExterminator]

They featured this on "Destroyed in Seconds".

[metroid478]

@GreatExterminator yep

[wonderwilly96]

@Jonesthesteam89 H.M.S. Ocean (primarly a helicopter landing deck), H.M.S. Ark Royal (primarly a helicopter landing deck), H.M.S. Illustious (Harrier take off deck and helicopter deck), H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth soon to enter sevice (fast jet, helicopter, harrier take off deck), H.M.S. Prince Philip (same as above)

[diecasterofthespirit]

not aircraft carrier destroyer

[rubiconyoufag]

That is so rip

[77shilo]

that coulda gone better

[Hankster58]

Tail rotor is the "rudder" of a chopper..... no tail rotor, no directional control!! agashtpumpkin.... since you know so much about Helicopters, please explain the difference between "Cyclic" and "Collective" controls, and what each does!!

[supergordon24fan]

@Hankster58 leaving comments is a wayste of time on here ( yes , i have nothing better to do at the moment )...it would take who ever your talking to about 3 seconds to google what you asked him and he would know exactly what you asked him , so then he would appear to know what he was talking about . your just waysting your time .

[Stealthgato]

@supergordon24fan It's spelled "waste" and "wasting".

[supergordon24fan]

@Stealthgato thanks

[dustoff440]

@Hankster58 Wrong....if you have enough forward air speed you can still maintain forward flight as the airspeed will reduce the torque effect on the fuselage and keep it from spinning around and you can land it by dragging the skids and simultaneously reducing power to reduce the torque effect. I have been there done that in a Huey.

[OmNomNomNomNomNomism]

@Hankster58 alright let me google it

[linedriver1]

@Hankster58 CAPTAIN of ship was at fault! Overdraught from superstructure caused a deadspot

[Whiskerfish1]

Wow what an Idiot. It was a mechanical failure of the tail rotor disconnect that caused a loss of tail rotor drive. Nobodies fault.

[Hamster307]

@Hankster58 Just testing my knowlege, I didn't look this up...

Cyclic controls the main rotor and its what makes the helicopter move side to side and forward and back. Its like a stick on an airplane.

Collective controls the pitch of the blades to make the helicopter have more and less lift to make it go up or down, and its kind of like a parking break on the side of your seat, with a twist throttle on it.

Am I close?

[Rolandhinio]

@Hankster58 Are you being sarcastic? I don't mean to be rude btw.

[Sgetzter]

@Hankster58 what about NOTAR, KA-52, Chinook ?

[xray606]

Uh... There's no way to "shut down" a tail rotor. The tail rotor is connected directly to the rest of the main rotor drive assembly, thereby increasing and decreasing power along with the main rotor, accordingly. The tail rotor blades can have the pitch adjusted with the pedals, which then controls the amount of negative or positive forces exerted against the engine torque, trying to turn the whole ship in the opposite direction. Hovering is when you need positive tail rotor the most.

[PlymouthVT]

Aghastpumpkin not only are you wrong your not even close. Why would you shut off the tailrotor in any circumstance? The heli goes round and round without it?

As my pilot once said you can lose the tr if you have alot of speed but lose it on landing and most pilots die.We lost TR about 2 feet above the ground in a Bell long ranger and it made one full rotation in a split second. Almost killed all of us.

[EaseAssassin]

Hey atleast it didnt fall into the water....

Oh wait...

[ZzRvXzZ]

teh lagg made u faizl lolz

[boatsin1]

haha that's one small as carrier this is the USS Cushing DD-985 i was there for that in the gulf OD-01 division

[bebe0928]

it's not an aircraft carrier

[Laszlo012]

Had he survived?

[audiotrax2000]

Watch your fingers!

[aligerous]

@toadrobot Exactly.  Thanks for factual information. It's a rarity in here.

[TehUBERProductionify]

Not trying to sound stupid but couldnt you just stop the boat so it could land easily???

[gonecammin]

@TehUBERProductionify Sorry but you sound stupid.

[joelsvsjoels]

that is a sea king

[dinoblackgrape]

they say chopper flying is difficult,,those chinooks look very hard indeed,and dangerous,my regards to the pilots

[gemgillin1983]

The old desert duck crash from the NAG, North Arabian Gulf. Back in 2002. I was on this exact aircraft a couple of months before the crash.

[Timx4]

Looks like my landing at battefield 2 LOL

[ArbiterMike666]

@Timx4 same here

[PolarisDawn]

@Timx4 lol

[CharlieDoan]

Holly shit?? Drunk pilot?

[majnos]

I wouldn't fly a heli, they all crash very easily. Respect to heli pilots.

[solidsnake16]

dumb!!

this is not a aircraft carrier u tard!!

thiz shit is an lpd or some lph is a type of ship that only recover a single helo

or helicopter..

a/c is way bigger than diz..

[kdraper2007]

@solidsnake16 That's a guided missile destroyer.

[hoverguys]

this is what you get with cheapo hobbyking gyros..

[fifmasta]

I'm flying rc-helicopters for three years and i have a friend that always tells me (he's flying an eurocopter ec-135, sometimes on sundays a trex 500 rc) that the rc's are more difficult to fly, but i never ever won't believe him.

[MrBenjaminHeuer]

May have been due to LTE.

[LikeAVideo]

and.......... we got fire!

[wolfsravenfsx]

hey thats not an aircraft carrier it's maybe a cruiser

[JonesTheSteam89]

@wolfsravenfsx

Good spot but lol Cruisers haven't been around for ages.

It's a Canadian Frigate to be exact.

[ewthmatth]

@JonesTheSteam89 "...Cruisers haven't been around for ages." huh? The US Navy has 22 of them. Russia also operates "cruisers".

[JonesTheSteam89]

@ewthmatth

When I said that I meant it with relevance to the old style cruisers that were around in WWII. Obviously what I said was a tad broad lol :L

[kdraper2007]

@JonesTheSteam89 Cruisers haven't been around for ages? HUH! Ticonderoga class cruisers are the backbone of the U.S. Navy. the Russkies have the Kirov class nuclear powered battle cruisers, not to mention the cruiser's of the Royal Navy, the Royal Dutch Navy.

[JonesTheSteam89]

@kdraper2007

Really? The Royal Navy has Cruisers?? Please tell me the names of some of these Cruisers?

[DraftMasterJohn]

@kdraper2007 You mean to tell me that the Dutch own something that wasn't make with Goat Cheese? LOL.

[copperdog007]

The Desert Duck crashing on USS Cushing a destroyer in the persian gulf

[lap116]

why do you say in the title that it is on an aircraft carier??

it could be on a destroyer ore fregat ore even a helicopter mother ship(ore how do you say it ....)

[Gunner7121]

@lap116 its or not ore

[SPCBent]

@cobalt100 Watching people die shouldn't be "fun" to watch. You shouldn't WANT to see another person die, nor take joy in it. If you watch this video, watch it to learn the ways of the world, of what can happen to the people who do these things every day.

You're a prick...... Just wanna throw that one out there.

[Projectdie]

@SPCBent No go die in ovens its fun to watch

[crazymonkey8888]

@SPCBent Nobody died in this crash, but as a pilot in the RAF, i appreciate your concern and totally agree with you point of view

[supergordon24fan]

@SPCBent aahhh just comment. i am sure noone wants to see someone die , but you have to admit people get off on other people getting hurt . what are 90 percent of the video's on america's funnyest video's on ABC ( family channel) about , people getting hurt . and why do so many people look at wrecks on the highway ? and nascar even has people watching for "the big one" ( the main wreck ) at talledega raceway .

i could go on and on and on and on about people WANTING to see others get hurt.

[Invesigator]

@SPCBent If it is a military helicopter that returned from a mission in an illigal war such as Iraq, the crash was well deserved.

[Whoo97]

To bad no one died retard.

[Dogmeat1950]

@cobalt100FUN? lol.ti wouldn't be fun if you were inside one.

[DunShootPlz]

i beat 2 this

[ryanspr]

@jtully79 but perhaps the pilot turned the tail rotor off to soon or perhaps it was a different failure like extreme winds?

[bipolar156]

@ryanspr

no. a pilot would not under any circumstances shutdown his rotor before landing. and the idea about the wind doesnt match up either. thats a big chopper and would need to be in a hurricane to react like that because of wind. that a loss of power to the tail rotor. thats all.

[aghastpumpkin]

@bipolar156

You're wrong, on all counts. I have been in a helicopter many times as it's part of my job. Many pilots will shut down the rotor before landing, as does the pilot I fly with. He's one of the most experienced in the UK too, so I'm sure he knows what he's doing.

As for loss of power to the tail rotor, that wouldn't cause that accident. A helicopter can fly without power the tail rotor absolutely fine. It has virtually no effect on stability whatsoever.

[jtully79]

@aghastpumpkin so what counters the torque from main rotor then? Why even have a tail rotor if the heli does not need it to fly? Basic physics is telling me your knowledge on this subject is equal to nil

[bipolar156]

@aghastpumpkin your wrong.

[Wendigo127]

@aghastpumpkin

You can not turn off the tail rotor it isn't possible. If you lose a tail rotor it greatly affects the helicopter and you will lose control at slow speeds. It does not affect it as much at high speeds but you will have to do a no hover landing.

[JonesTheSteam89]

@Wendigo127

Doesn't affect it at high speeds??? Sorry, I didn't realise Newton's 2nd law stopped being relative once a helo reached high speeds.

[Wendigo127]

@JonesTheSteam89

If you thought about it you would figure out the tail stabilizes the aircraft at higher speeds

[JonesTheSteam89]

@aghastpumpkin

Those pilots are all deliberately flying dangerously in that case. Along with yours. the transmission system is one system!! The only way you can cut the tail drive shaft off from the intermediates is when the tail is folded. Seeing as there's only one Helicopter in the UK that has an automatic tail fold, and it CAN'T fold in the air due to...at least 3 or 4 safety features, the tail drive shaft will NEVER be cut off from the rest of the transmission system. Simple as.

[DraftMasterJohn]

@aghastpumpkin Without the tail rotor the helicopter would spin and the main blades would appear to remain relatively in one place for a period of time. What kind of job do you have?

[Stealthgato]

@aghastpumpkin "A helicopter can fly without power the tail rotor absolutely fine." Kid, please, just get the fuck out before you make yourself look like a retard - oh nevermind, too late.

[ARCANINE6]

@aghastpumpkin

dude YOUR WRONG. if u sed something clever after u sed u fly in helis then maybe ppl would think u knew something, but saying something idiotic like that is just plain stupid. also how the hell can a helicopter fly without a tail rotor? the heli would just spin round, and round and round and round until it lost lift or destroyed itself in mid air. ur brain is as small as ur knowledge of aviation so go and learn something, moron

[Sgetzter]

@aghastpumpkin i thought that tail rotor and main rotor are connected

[mackievicz]

@ryanspr there is no way to turn off tail rotor, it is hydraulic controlled and computer linked to the pedals. this is absurd saying that.

[maverick25000]

@mackievicz the pilot didnt turn off the tail rotor, it failed, my father was in a SH-60 crash where the tail rotor failed.

[SCHRUBBE1966]

Lucky for the ship it rolled over the side.

[SQUIRALBOY43]

@vulture2169 yes it is



[6V92TA]

atleast the fire was put out when the copter hit the water.

[vladika07]

Darn it,, this isn't funny

[mh53eflyguy]

Search "HC-2 Desert Duck 744" on flickr and you'll find pics.

[SSUstufRudel]

Ouch... This is horrid. Sometimes even experienced pilots get into situations like this.

[zequelll]

well hes right. the only way that could happen is if the tail rotor failed....

[OneSicFuk]

well if anyone died i hope it was an american

[SQUIRALBOY43]

@OneSicFuk i hp it was freakin bin laden

[55PhilliesRock]

fail...



[LittleTelevision]

Take a dive?

[militaryMastersrg]

wow even my day as a solder wasnt that harsh

[petisojavier]

add sound

[srogerss1]

0:14 Oh Well atleast there on the ship-oh..no, nope nevermind >->

[Weefles]

The pilot was all right, i know the guy. They pulled him out f the water and asked him if he was OK, his response ws "Ive crashed me favorite helicopter BLOODY HELL!"

[clazza01]

@Weefles ooh i hope u r right

[Nigel4400]

hahaha! i'm not laughing at the crash it self, but the fact that is was a sea king that crashed. Those peices of junk are way out of date and are in deep need of replacemet.

[WorstNightmare4U]

Obviously a black or woman pilot.

[Nazuga]

@WorstNightmare4U Well said from mom's basement.

[Nazuga]

@WorstNightmare4U I bet you're not even a pilot, and never could be.

[ikanipo]

@WorstNightmare4U great comment.NOT!

[clazza01]

@WorstNightmare4U lol what next eh?

[inkhearlover45]

Sweet!! and best of all he falls of the carrier at the end :P

[Djrepsaj]

Is it am Sikorsky?

[SmertFashizmu]

ХА, ДОЛБОЕБЫ

[dirtbiker715]

The rofl helicopter has fail

[BucketBoysBand]

I think thats called a fail.

[59cva]

thats not an aircraft carrier its a crusier (numb nuts)!

[kblackav8or]

The number of people who repost this and other mishap video with completely bogus information describing it is remarkable. Even some of the Navy people who think they are in the know get it totally wrong. If it is already on Youtube, don't repost. If you post something new, get your facts straight first.

[RoldanIncorporated]

guys thers no reason to go political on this. so some pilot from another country crahses. Its not like Americans never crash their helicopters. Everyone eventually screws up,and remember the V22 testing? tht is worse than this

[JAKEYCHAN2010]

bearswilleatme i have to say i disagree with you. you say class 3 i say class 4 rudder failure due to the uplift causing the prop shaft to bend and eventually snap hahahahahahaha not

[samquan123]

fuck.. need to learn how be good landing. that helicoptor about 1 million dollars throw in trash..

[inkhearlover45]

lmao!! awesome.. and to top it off he goes into the sea...lol nice!!!

[legaliseme]

holy shit and into the sea

[kozromanga]

REJECTED!

[USA1RCGUY]

This pilot is amazing, he severed the blades on the deck and them managed to smother the ensuing fire by piloting the craft into the ocean. This is clearly the standard that all pilots should follow after a major fuck up.

[kblackav8or]

@USA1RCGUY He had help...the tail rotor failed just before he landed. Pilots and crew were along for the ride at that point.