Helicopter accidents are nothing to take lightly. What’s amazing about this crash in New Zealand is that the pilot walked away unharmed.
Helicopter accidents are nothing to take lightly. What’s amazing about this crash in New Zealand is that the pilot walked away unharmed.
MDolley
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 11:45 AMSaw this earlier this morning, absolutely crazy. My only question was why were they using a helicopter for that and not a crane? From the video it looked like there wasn’t a lot of room for the chopper to move.
George
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 11:53 AMWow, that’s crazy! o.O
Nick
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 12:52 PMWe used to use choppers for lifting light loads a long way in on wide span buildings where they we more economical than really big cranes. This looks like an inadequate site survey and the ground people were very close – that much flying rotor blade and a slightly different path for debris and it could have been a scene from a horror film!
Sylver
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 1:04 PMLucky, lucky, lucky. Make’s me wonder if the pilot was eyeballing it, or if he had someone on the ground helping.
Listen to that turbine whine though, wow!
InformedGamer
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 1:51 PMAt 0:11 on the second video, is that his head hitting the roof and making that deformation?! Since his beanie seems to come loose straight after
Ben D
Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 12:51 AMNo, it looks like that deformation is there before the impact. Probably just designed that way.
At 12 seconds, the pilot left the helicopter but was then able to pull himself back in. amazing.
Budorat
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 9:18 PMWhat amazes me is that military chopper pilots have a load master checking clearance to ground, foreign objects etc, and that’s in an open field or on a football field (check the footage when the Black Hawk flew into an NRL game earlier this year, can not remember which one) Why the hell did this guy not have someone performing the same duties ?????
Tarrith
Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 4:16 PMWatch the black thing under the helicopter, you can just see the wire get underneath get tugged a couple of times, probably by said Christmas tree, before the chopper twists and hit’s the dirt.
Good to see the pilot make it out.