I'm with your dad on this, although I have flown in the left seat of a Gazelle, many moons ago. It was my first and last flight in a chopper. Too many moving parts and every control input requires to be countered by another. Heaven knows how they manage to fly.
I don't know anyone killed in an air accident, plane or helicopter. I do know a few groundstaff that were killed by aircraft though, walking into props or being sucked into the intake. Horrible mess.
Military pilots at war excluded...
My friend was also a former colleague, he was a Brazilian Oilfield worker on his way back from break to the job he was on in Egypt.
Yeah it certainly does, there's no fucking way in a million years would I get in some of the planes and Choppers I've been on before if I had to do it again. Flying domestically in places like Bangladesh, Tupolov flights in Iran, boarding a vintage Alouette helicopter in Syria that was leaking oil, and so on. Madness.
It took them three and a half minutes to fall to earth (or ocean to be precise) in a stalled and uncontrollable aircraft, it was not a controlled descent. I doubt anyone slept through that, reports at the time of what the passengers may have experienced were truly horrifying.
You said it yourself.
The plane stalled in a storm in increasing headwind, and slowly accelerated vertically, in the dead of night, with the pilots not knowing what to do and little by way of control inputs (or ones that did anything).
They were almost four hours into a night flight and most people would have been asleep.
Those awake would probably not have known what they were experiencing, because looking out of the windows would have given them no frame of reference.
Anyone awake would have assumed it was turbulence and had no idea what was coming. The aircraft pancaked intact, and no-one would have survived the impact.
I used to have nightmares about PanAm103 however, because most people would have been wide awake, and the explosion detached the front of the aircraft.
Makes me shudder just thinking about it.
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^ One of my friends had to help pick up the pieces of that flight. It is difficult to express in words the horrors he encountered.
Video emerges from inside one of the helicopters involved in Monday’s Gold Coast crash. Inside the cockpit: Moment tourist raises alarm seconds before fatal GC helicopter crash | 7NEWS
https://twitter.com/i/status/1610568562564894723
film from inside the cockpit of one of the helicopters.
The days of helicopters taking off and landing at the same time in uncontrolled air space like this will be over. The ATSB will nix it
Last edited by Backspin; 05-01-2023 at 07:58 AM.
Video footage of the crash in the link
Hours of video footage to be reviewed as part of fatal Gold Coast helicopter crash investigation - ABC News
ETA - I dont understand why teak door hates ABC.
www.abc. net . au /news/2023-01-05/qld-gold-coast-helicopter-crash-camera-footage/101827424
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^Looks like the same footage already posted where one of the passengers in the rear seat taps the Pilot's shoulder and points out they're about to be in a collision? There must be phone footage taken from tourists on the ground of the impact, not trying to be macabre but that's what we really need to see to understand exactly how this tragedy occurred.
Good analysis. The company just acquired these euro copters in November. And its a factor in the accident
These helicopters were selling 5 minute rides for $85. That's dumb. Landing and taking off every 5 minutes.
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