national geographic amazing moments : mount hood helicopter crash

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Travel & Events

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• accident
• national
• geographic
• helicopter
• crash
• mountain
• landslide
• Mt.Hood
• most
• climbed
• oregon
• America
• tragedy
• disaster
• dead
• pilot
• USA

[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.

[dickwad001]

awsome

[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.

[Postie218]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.