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5 hospitalized after helicopter crashes in busy oceanfront area of Huntington Beach
Five people, including a child, were hospitalized when a helicopter crashed in the Southern California city of Huntington Beach on Saturday afternoon. It happened just after 2 p.m. local time near a parking lot off Pacific Coast Highway, between Beach Boulevard and Twin Dolphins Drive, according to Huntington Beach firefighters. (www.cbsnews.com) More...
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Thanks for the link.
Thank you for this - he is able to provide clear and illustrated explanations. Very interesting.
The NTSBs reveal of the 'tail rotor maintenance logs' should prove interesting.
Those on board are incredibly lucky that this happened relatively close to the ground and that a palm tree helped absorb some of the impact force. The helicopter made two passes over the landing site, one at high speed. If the tail rotor had seized then, the footage of the fly-by would have been much more spectacular.
Actually it wouldn’t have. Like most helicopters the 222 has a vertical stabilizer and with speed it would keep the ship from spinning with loss of tail rotor control. This pilot had the worse case scenario, low and slow is the worse time to lose the tail rotor. With any tail rotor issue, the procedure is to keep enough speed up to remain stable and fly it onto the ground whether it has skids or wheels.
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChJEKMUEFYk"