Helicopter rotor hits steel cable

[planedriver]

Pilot was lucky to walk away from this one.

 

Bet he's glad he wasn't flying a Robbo.

 

<http://www.chonday.com/Videos/chopersteelrope2>

 

 

[motzartmerv]

Thats an old one, but shows the violence involved when you convert all that energy..

 

 

[planedriver]

Not seen it before Andy, but thank goodness there was no post crash fire.

 

If it had been a Robbo, i'd need a bigger set of nuts to be so close and to help the pilot out of it.

 

 

[motzartmerv]

Yea it's hard to watch, waiting for it to go woof. And the noise if that turbine racing ... Man... Good in those guys for jumpin straight in to help him out. Ig u slow it down the pilot almost goes right out and back in through the wind screen. Incredible!!

 

 

[pylon500]

If watched carefully, you can see a ground handler grab the cable which actually pulls it into the blades

 

Lucky he didn't lose an arm or head..

 

 

[DrZoos]

Holy crap thats insane

 

 

[David Isaac]

Yep the rigger caused that accident, obviously very poorly briefed. The poor pilot it must have scared the crap out of him, lucky he is alive.

 

 

[Ron5335]

I think the rigger must have been Frank Spencer.

 

If he didn't succeed in pulling the cable into the rotor, he was sure to get a similar result, when he jumps up to grab the cable and put a sudden offset load onto the chopper !!

 

As they say "Some mothers' do have em" !!!!

 

 

[johnm]

------------ it's a bit more complicated than that

 

you can read the report (think this is it) ..................... its in NZ language - hope this link does the trick:

 

http://www.caa.govt.nz/Accidents_and_Incidents/Accident_Reports/zk-hig_final_rep.pdf

 

 

[cooperplace]

there seems to be an most inadequate margin for error in the whole procedure; it's unfair to blame the rigger, he was asked to do a job that wouldn't have been part of a properly designed procedure. In my opinion. I'm neither rigger nor chopper pilot, of course.

 

 

[johnm]

if you search the newspaper articles you will read that the chopper pilot and the rigger were looking at each other and each was in difficulty trying to communicate what should be done (can't recall about radio com) - what was done was argued in some sort of forum / hearing

 

My GUESS would be: I don't think the pilot or the rigger thought it through ................ I'd guess if the pilot has his time again then he would of flown above the lift so that the cable was tight and then released ?

 

..................... probably would have been less damage - if anything at all