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| Thread ID: 121948 | 2011-11-22 22:21:00 | Helicopter Crash Auckland Viaduct. Live Stream. | Trev (427) | PC World Chat |
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| 1244952 | 2011-11-24 00:40:00 | You can see it clearly here from about the 3:10 mark in this video: www.3news.co.nz Someone jumps up and grabs the suspended cable which makes it swing into the blades. Was this person meant to jump up and grab the cable? Or was the pilot meant to release the cable? I don't know. But you can see on the video that all is well until the fellow jumps up and grabs it and changes the angle of the suspended cable. Just as the other cameraman walks across in front of the view you can see someone underneath the helicopter jump up and grab at the cable. |
andrew93 (249) | ||
| 1244953 | 2011-11-24 00:47:00 | If you're talking about the engine mounting/s, I agree, almost tore it out immediately. Would make one think that is a weak point, with possible premature failure. :horrified I must say, you'll never see me inside one of those contraptions :eek:. Yeah, ask Peter Button (en.wikipedia.org) about that. It to do with weight more than anything else, best one I saw the aftermath of was a HAS Mk1 helicopter at Taupo airport. It was hover taxiing up to the fuel pump when a boat cover came off the boat and got caught in the rotor blades. The shock of the cover ripped the gearbox and main rotor from its mountings and the lot flew off the chopper like keystone cops movie. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1244954 | 2011-11-24 01:16:00 | This footage www.stuff.co.nz suggests that the other end of your red wire was attached to the helicopter. Maybe the release didn't happen with most of the cable weight hanging from the tower rather than copter Yes that is correct. My MS Paint skills are pretty much limited to what you saw in my image... I was not going to try and draw a helicopter!!! The image still demonstrates that pulling on the slack rope was the apparent cause - bringing the rope in contact with the blades. |
Disco_Dan (16576) | ||
| 1244955 | 2011-11-24 01:41:00 | I was not going to try and draw a helicopter!!! I would have just drawn a square labelled "Helicopter" :p |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1244956 | 2011-11-24 01:51:00 | I would have just drawn a square labelled "Helicopter" :p ...Right. Happy? *sobbs* ;) |
Disco_Dan (16576) | ||
| 1244957 | 2011-11-24 06:12:00 | The TV3 video has pretty good coverage of what happened, and if you slow it down, you can pretty much see what happened. The guy below the copter that was moving the rope was damn lucky to survive and not get hit by anything. | robbyp (2751) | ||
| 1244958 | 2011-11-24 09:37:00 | On RNZ the pilot was asked about ground crew and he said that the cause was something else that he wasn't prepared to discuss until he'd talked to Civil Aviation. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 1244959 | 2011-11-24 09:59:00 | Cable was too short for the job. By trying to set the cable down low before the release the pilot was effectively drawing the cable closer to his craft. If the cable was twice the length of the tower he'd have had fewer worries, and the mug on the ground could have easily kept the cable well away from the blades. I too wondered why there were so many cameras there. Due to the spectacular footage you have to wonder what sort of $ the footage will earn. On an unrelated note, our local rescue copter pilot taught me that the chopper blades are too weak to support the weight of the craft. They only withstand the lift due to the rotation forces holding the blades out horizontally. Without those forces the blades would just bend up vertically and break. The forces that broke the craft seem amazing. The fuselage broke, the pilots door burst open and the pilot (possibly still strapped in) was partially ejected from the craft before anything more than the cable had been impacted. It broke like it was made of paper. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1244960 | 2011-11-24 19:34:00 | the pilots door burst open and the pilot (possibly still strapped in) was partially ejected from the craft before anything more than the cable had been impacted. The pilot said on ONE News last night that his seatbelt saved his life, so he was strapped in. :) |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1244961 | 2011-11-24 20:02:00 | He was strapped into the helicopter but the seat broke away from under him leaving room to move. | PaulD (232) | ||
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