Helicopter Crashes Off Florida Keys

Helicopter ends up in the drink just after taking off from the beach. Stunned survivors are able to wade to safety.

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• water
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• out
• of
• control

[omar1bgd]

I said easy on the ruder

[russiarulezz]

@BombriderKong I don't really care...

This is how the text was on the NTSB's website, I'm not about to retype everything.

[BombriderKong]

@russiarulezz I don't like people writing with caps on.

[warzdune]

Going for a swim

[russiarulezz]

THE SIGHTSEEING HELICOPTERS HAD JUST TAKEN OFF AND WAS ABOUT 50 FT IN THE AIR WHEN TAIL ROTOR DRIVE AND CONTROL WAS LOST. THE PILOT EXECUTED A POWER ON FORCED LANDING TO THE OCEAN THE TAIL ROTOR GEAR BOX FAILED AT THE CASTING AROUND THE INPUT DRIVE GEAR AND THERE WERE SIGNS OF LOGJAMMING ON THE INTERIOR OF THE CASTING. THE DRIVE GEAR WAS NOT RECOVERED FROM THE OCEAN.

[poexxope]

Well doger, for one thing this is more fun. And who are you calling amature?

[dodger202020]

You know, rather than amateurs incorrectly speculating on what happened on a helicopter crash that took place over 20 years ago, maybe you should just read the NTSB report and find out that it was a tail rotor drive failure.

[kz4506]

mail rotor , if it was tr it would go nuts before crash , it looks like it lost a pitch link on one of the blades , if you watch the blades one of them was way out of tracking and fully loaded so down it came ............

[madeljacky]

@helihot it turns CCW

[ji6vKYW1]

fail