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Uploaded by on Jul 26, 2007

Helicopter crash

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  • I'm intimately familiar with this accident as a mechanic for the company that owned the aircraft. It was indeed a single engine failure that occurred just above the ground. The pilot did an exemplary job of pulling in more pitch (collective) but there wasn't enough to prevent the "hard landing". They were responding to a possible pool drowning victim.

  • The funny part about this accident was that it was the first day on the job for the nurse on the helicopter. Not being familiar with helicopters she didn't realize that they had "crashed". She grabbed the scene bag and hopped out to go to the drowning victim not realizing she had just survived a near death experience. As I recall, the drowning victim was OK.

  • @trev777777777  Really? The news report mentioned an engine failure as the cause.

  • I remember this. Was just down the street from were I lived

  • lol

  • @lexale That's a big word did your mummy teach you that?

  • aww those were simple times

  • That news anchor looks like Marcy from Married With Childern

  • @Classic63EType Hi Classic.. it was kinda one of those moments after the fact... he arrived back safe and then told us of the problem... the way he seen it.... there was one perfectly good engine and he had no pax to be responsible for... so standing there wide eye in disbelief but with out inccident..so, by the way he no longer works for us, there were to many wide eye moments hahaha. and it just wasnt working out.

    Have a great Xmas, i start 4 weeks tomorrow in PNG, shit for me lol oh well...

  • @quickrelease100

    Hi there again! I do think that if your man kept his job after taking off with a known fault, you were more than kind in letting the man keep his job as I know of nobody who would deliberately take off in an aircraft with a problem for the sake of saving others the inconvenience of having to make repairs in the field. That sometimes happens in this business. Thanks for the kind reply and have a great

    Christmas season. Best regards!

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