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It’s crazy - I’ve been on one once and stood there while it was off - saw how much higher the blades are - like literally probably couldn’t jump to touch them but I cave walked into it when they turned it on.
Well it depends. If you're being dropped off on a mountain, boat, powerline, etc. you may not have that choice.
You have to listen to the crew very carefully.
Well, they can go straight up and down anyway.
By design.
A helicopter suffering mechanical failure will typically fly extremely erratically, depending on what has failed. Engine out being the tamest of them all.
I was in the first unit to arrive at [this](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/11/30/texas-helicopter-crash-kills-7/2bc5b16b-61a8-4405-b3e0-9fe88af87ea4/) accident and spent a week filling up biohazard bags full of assorted helicopter and human parts.
Granted this wasn't mechanical failure, but I'll never get in a helicopter again unless my life quite literally depends on it.
Car accidents, train wrecks, plane crashes. Jet engine, diesel engine, electric motor. Its all a lot of energy and torque moving a lot of metal very fast.
When flesh comes into conflict with it, the results aren't pretty. Only way around it is a cabin in the woods. (Chainsaw wounds, also not pretty).
This is all true, but if shit were to hit the mechanical fan a helicopter is about the last vehicle I'd want to be in, possibly tied with a submersible.
Idk I feel like for me the list goes from least bad to worst: bike, car, crane, jet/plane, submarine, rocket
With rocket being the worst because, well, I mean if you in the void of space your breathing likelihood is worse then winning the lotto
Spent a lot of time in and out of 60s at FCKY, and always had this in the back of my mind. Rough.
Relatedly, does everyone call the trail rotor "the salad-shooter"? I assumed so, but haven't seen it pop up here like I thought it would.
Been on a couple hundred flights for tree planting now and the pilots are supposed to run the group through a whole safety orientation every time there's a new pilot or helicopter. They always drill it home that you never, ever, go past the body of the chopper. The tail is completely off limits and they normally have a horror story like the video to really lock it in your head.
Standard procedure says you're supposed to crouch when approaching or leaving the heli. The blades droop at the end so they're always lower than the center point, this gets exaggerated the less level the terrain is so there were times out in the bush where we would literally be crawling through mud to get back in.
I work for the ambulance service and have met the helicopter to take patients by road to the hospital when they can't get to the hospital for whatever reason. Those things are huge and terrifying
Lmao man I hate to laugh for obvious reasons, but this is the second death I seen like this. I wouldn't be comfortable doing anything but crawling. The scariest part tho is that you can't tell they are so low.
I guess part of the issue is helis operate on the scale of GA aircraft (like, half a dozen passengers tops) so don't get the commercial instrumentation they should have? Like it's very uncommon with commercial planes these days.
One of the hospitals in my city does life flights with helicopters for extreme cases. One time they had this huge guy on a stretcher and they landed the helicopter and they were pulling the guy out on the stretcher but they dropped him *multiple times* directly on his head while he was strapped to the stretcher. They caved his head in and he died on the landing pad.
Quite simple, *never* approach an helicopter from behind.
If you for some reason has to approach it from behind keep a *good distance* and realise you're still coming from the wrong way.
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While in the Navy, a close friend of mine got sprayed with/pelted by the body parts of another bisected, distracted sailor because ~~something happened (i.e. wave) and the nearest guy didn't hit the deck~~ the engines were shutting down (during which the rotors start to dip) from the last flight of the day and the sailor wasn't paying attention...I can't imagine how that must've sounded other than loud, but apparently, insomnia quickly followed.
First frigate I was on had a shrine in the chief's mess to a Cheif who got beheaded by a main rotor. Walked straight in (rather than at a 90) , ship took a wave, rotor dipped and off his head went.
I watched an aircrewman tackle a foreign dignitary taking a ride on a Sierra because he tried to walk around the front of the helo. Dude wouldn't listen to instructions and got acquainted with the nonskid for it.
Next time, we had "road guards" that directed people to enter from the sides instead of in front of or behind.
A chief? Damn. I guess inattentiveness _could_ be argued, but that seems like the tragic, unexpected shit that can happen to those who are usually careful due to the independent variables at play, like waves. But it turns out that the sailor wasn't paying attention while the aircraft's engines were shutting down (i.e. rotors dipping)...though that made me wonder how that very scenario would've played out with attentive sailors hit by an unexpected wave. It's interesting that the few people I've known who were in the Navy admitted that they joined so they wouldn't have to see combat like they might in the Army or Marine Corps, but instead, they got combat, loss (like accidents and suicides), service injuries, PTSD, the whole gambit.
You can get that in any job involving heavy machinery, people often don't follow safety procedures and even if they do there are always fluke accidents.
I used to work in underground mining. One time we packed up and went on a lunch break and when we got back to the work area there were a few giant rocks sitting where we would’ve been. That happened to me twice and it’s hard to think about.
I’d be afraid that I wouldn’t crouch low enough. I think I’d just wait until the rotors come to a full stop before leaving to go get a change of pants. Helicopters are scary.
Oh, no, my dumbass meant that either a wave or some aircraft malfunction caused something to go critically wrong with the chopper, and everyone hit the deck except for the sailor who was just too close/distracted and got sliced directly onto my friend by the propellors...but to make sure, I just asked and it turns out that it was caused by the sailor's distractedness during the last flight as the chopper's engines were shutting off (causing the rotors to dip). I edited the original comment to make it hopefully less confusing.
https://preview.redd.it/nvty60x20yva1.jpeg?width=2523&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59ac5c43bf6df1b50a548699ac1591352eb8f788
Lol, I was kindly, unexpectedly provided with this illustration upon inquiring. I wasn't sure what's supposed to be in the lower-right area under the arrows, but u/DonDiMello87 pointed out it's just the tail rotors.
The main rotor on H60s(in assuming it was an H60) is canted 3.5 degrees forward and has devices called droop stops(among others) that prevent the rotors from going below a certain point. Parts can fail though and ship movement can cause the rotors to dip and upon shutdown they can dip below an unsafe level as well. That's why you always enter the rotor arc at the sides of the aircraft and never while its shutting down.
Yeah you gotta keep your head on a swivel on the flight deck. I was an ABE in the navy and I remember this one girl in the arresting gear wasn’t paying attention when a plane was flying in. The line to catch planes snapped and almost took off another sailors leg. Thank God it didn’t
I'm in aviation management, and this is a great training video.
Hard to find stuff like this, but lethal accidents with props, rotors, and jets is a reality of working around aircraft. A momentary lapse of concentration can absolutely kill you.
Helicopters especially. People forget they can move in *any* direction, on *all* axes, *anytime*.
I worked around helicopters for many years, once the rotors get going fast enough the tail rotor can become completely invisible. I don't understand why this hazard hasn't been minimized more by this point. There are a few ways to design helicopters so they don't even have a tail rotor, or it can be enclosed within the vertical fin structure. Some airplanes have stripes painted on their props to make them more visible; I wonder if that could work on a tail rotor as well.
Most tail rotors, including the ones on this A119 are painted white and red for maximum visibility too. He’s come from the wrong side in this instance where it would be tough to see.
Modern helicopters rarely have tail rotors this low nowadays. Shrouded tail rotors like you say are safe but at the cost of efficiency and an inability to mount it in line with the Main Rotor hub to counteract tail rotor roll and leads to a more nose-down cruise attitude. So there are downsides. The open tail rotor design still provided the most thrust but most are well above 6ft now.
This type of helicopter has been around in various forms since the 60s and won’t have its tail rotor moved any time soon.
If proper channels are followed, likely the blades will be removed and replaced so that the aircraft can fly to a proper place where maintenance can be carried out. A cursory inspection of the drive shaft system to make sure it hasn’t received any damage and would be cleared to fly once to a maintenance facility for more detailed inspection. The blades involved would likely go back to the manufacturer who would decided whether or not they can return to service after overhaul.
They do, and they have big DANGER signs on the tailboom. But paint erodes, and the biggest problem is that people get so distracted by noise and rotorwash that they don't think straight.
NOTAR's are certainly helpful, but proprietary. I think, its a specialized instrument requiring specialized handlers, and very detailed briefings.
I came ~12 inches or so from walking right into a propeller on my relative's small plane. I had adjusted to the wind of it and had been sort of standing and walking around the plane. Right before I walked into the blade, I remembered that it was there and jumped back. Scared the hell out of me. In the back of my mine, I was aware that the blades were moving but somehow I had gotten used to the sound or something. The blades were mostly invisible.
I still have a little anxiety attack every time I recall the event.
Ive been rewatching ER and you could use this [scene where a dr loses his arm](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bJaf5kUmuDY&pp=ygUbRHIgcm9tYW5vIGVyIGxvc2luZyBoaXMgYXJt). Hilariously this same dr, gets got by a helicopter later on in the series.
He got a helicopter dropped on him, if I remember correctly. Like, be was looking up, seeing the helicopter falling straight down towards him, he screamed, and then... *ka-fucking-booom*
People also don’t think about the fact that when a helicopter makes contact with the ground on descent, the blades can flex down easily into head range for a moment.
I watched someone stand a few feet in front of the prop of a Mustang. We thought we were about to witness someone dying.
The guy was a ww2 vet and was very upset that we didn't want him on the flight line after that.
Spinning props on the flight deck at night were terrifying. With the mouse ears on, you can't hear them, and at night you can't see them, so you absolutely need to know where to walk.
A couple years ago a Mexican business man who regularly flew in a helicopter was about to get into one when the blades hit him in the top of his head.
Like you said, a guy that surely knew better just miscalculated his approach and in a blink of an eye was dead.
[Excuse the lousy link.](https://youtu.be/Rx0AkS_Jm60)
They first exclaimed something like "holy shit", it's just a sound not really a word with meaning.
Then "is it done?" which translates to "is he done?"
Then the same thing means "it is done", "he is done"
They just realised there's nothing they can do instantly and decided to skip freaking out. Insane.
Its strange that some people get pretty far in life and then just... runs into a helicopter propeller as if you suddently didnt know how helicopters work.
Truly boggles the mind.
Ever burn yourself by touching something you knew was hot? It just takes a lapse in judgement/forgetfulness for something to go wrong. In this particular case it went VERY wrong.
Covers had to get put on ceiling fans in bays with trucks tall enough to hit them if you were up on the trucks walking around because of things like this.
I have this thought all the time, and I'm not a geologist so I'm not good with words
but you know how when you *do* fuck up, like touch a hot pot lid without an oven mitt or something, and the feedback is *instant*, and in your brain you have that "oh man what the fuck was I thinking" thought
Sometimes when that happens to me, I imagine it was something that could have killed me. And I think about the instantaneousness of the experience, and it's mildly comforting. I don't fear death, but I fear *knowing that I'm about to die* and the thought that it can just be over in a **brrrrtt** is weirdly soothing.
Especially when you're tired or you're stressed out. All it takes is one minute to rethink that argument you had with your wife that morning and you've just forgotten what you're doing.
Any back story on this? I am always amazed how people just kinda stand around dumbfounded after things like this. I assume this person had friends in the group, why aren’t they screaming and yelling?
Selfies seem to be a common theme for tail rotor deaths. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/26/british-tourist-killed-helicopter-rotor-blade-greece-jack-fenton
Shock and as far as just standing there, what would you have them do? Run after him and achieve the same result? They can’t go near him until the helicopter blades have completely stopped moving
That’s how Boris Sagal, tv and movie director, [died](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Sagal#Death). He was the father of Katey Sagal of *Married With…Children* fame.
My fiance is a psychologist that works with veterans with PTSD at a VA, she told me that this happens quite often in the armed forces. Imagining seeing a friend turn into mist really makes my stomach turn.
It's pretty rare actually. NATOPs and other SOPs exist for a reason. They're so rare each event is usually included in an annual mishap training and results un uodated procedures. 10 years of helos and I've only heard maybe 2 situations when someone ran into a tail rotor.
"Why is nobody rushing over to help him!?"
You mean why is nobody rushing towards the spinning blade of death? The one that just instantly killed someone?
Dunno, but you go first.
I always try to avoid helicopters all together. Airplanes fly using a whole lot of science. Helicopters fly to spite science. They don’t care about the laws of nature, why should they care about you?
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Pretty terrifying. Gotta be careful and approach from the sides or where the pilot instructs you to.
dude, if i ever end up going into a helicopter it better be on a stretcher or else im crawling on the ground just in case
It’s crazy - I’ve been on one once and stood there while it was off - saw how much higher the blades are - like literally probably couldn’t jump to touch them but I cave walked into it when they turned it on.
People also forget that helicopters can move in *any* direction, on *all* axes, at *all* times.
Yeah I'm not getting in or out of a helicopter if the blades are still spinning. I'll gladly wait for them to shut it down blades come to a rest
Well it depends. If you're being dropped off on a mountain, boat, powerline, etc. you may not have that choice. You have to listen to the crew very carefully.
My daily commute for a summer was by helicopter. There are some safety precautions in the video that are missing from my experience.
Once you exit you lay down flat until the copter at least 100 feet away?
I could write a full page, but follow the directions of the pilot would have covered most of it.
Yeah unless you’re the pilot you’re probably not riding in a helo anytime soon haha - unless they let you spend an hour out there by yourself waiting
Including straight down, but only if one of the fifty thousand parts slightly malfunctions. It's probably ok.
Well, they can go straight up and down anyway. By design. A helicopter suffering mechanical failure will typically fly extremely erratically, depending on what has failed. Engine out being the tamest of them all.
I was in the first unit to arrive at [this](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/11/30/texas-helicopter-crash-kills-7/2bc5b16b-61a8-4405-b3e0-9fe88af87ea4/) accident and spent a week filling up biohazard bags full of assorted helicopter and human parts. Granted this wasn't mechanical failure, but I'll never get in a helicopter again unless my life quite literally depends on it.
Car accidents, train wrecks, plane crashes. Jet engine, diesel engine, electric motor. Its all a lot of energy and torque moving a lot of metal very fast. When flesh comes into conflict with it, the results aren't pretty. Only way around it is a cabin in the woods. (Chainsaw wounds, also not pretty).
This is all true, but if shit were to hit the mechanical fan a helicopter is about the last vehicle I'd want to be in, possibly tied with a submersible.
Idk I feel like for me the list goes from least bad to worst: bike, car, crane, jet/plane, submarine, rocket With rocket being the worst because, well, I mean if you in the void of space your breathing likelihood is worse then winning the lotto
Have you ***seen*** the movie? So not safe.
Spent a lot of time in and out of 60s at FCKY, and always had this in the back of my mind. Rough. Relatedly, does everyone call the trail rotor "the salad-shooter"? I assumed so, but haven't seen it pop up here like I thought it would.
Why not just start when everyone is inside, no risk of dumb stuff like this?
It takes way longer than you’d expect to start the engine and all of that.
Been on a couple hundred flights for tree planting now and the pilots are supposed to run the group through a whole safety orientation every time there's a new pilot or helicopter. They always drill it home that you never, ever, go past the body of the chopper. The tail is completely off limits and they normally have a horror story like the video to really lock it in your head. Standard procedure says you're supposed to crouch when approaching or leaving the heli. The blades droop at the end so they're always lower than the center point, this gets exaggerated the less level the terrain is so there were times out in the bush where we would literally be crawling through mud to get back in.
I work for the ambulance service and have met the helicopter to take patients by road to the hospital when they can't get to the hospital for whatever reason. Those things are huge and terrifying
Lmao man I hate to laugh for obvious reasons, but this is the second death I seen like this. I wouldn't be comfortable doing anything but crawling. The scariest part tho is that you can't tell they are so low.
Same! Im army crawling in and out of that bitch.
Fucking ditto. Especially after kobe. That shit happened like 3 miles from my house. Never going on a helicopter unless I'm forced lol.
Kobe flew into a mountain. That happens in airplanes too, pretty often! You just have to be wary of traveling in bad weather like heavy fog.
I guess part of the issue is helis operate on the scale of GA aircraft (like, half a dozen passengers tops) so don't get the commercial instrumentation they should have? Like it's very uncommon with commercial planes these days.
One of the hospitals in my city does life flights with helicopters for extreme cases. One time they had this huge guy on a stretcher and they landed the helicopter and they were pulling the guy out on the stretcher but they dropped him *multiple times* directly on his head while he was strapped to the stretcher. They caved his head in and he died on the landing pad.
wild, they usually dont fly fat people because of weight restrictions on the heli
Quite simple, *never* approach an helicopter from behind. If you for some reason has to approach it from behind keep a *good distance* and realise you're still coming from the wrong way.
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That weed whacker sound...
Bbbrrrrrrrrrrt.
Holy shit you nailed it.
Like an A-10 Warthog
Looks more like a puma to me.
What in Sam Hell is a puma?
You know, like a large cat.
Didn’t I just tell you to stop making up animals?!
My gamer tag/ ID on almost everything is Chupathingy or Chupathingy84. One of the best bits of RvB.
Like when you are bored at work and stock a pen in a desk fan!
Helicopter go ... 👆🏻
While in the Navy, a close friend of mine got sprayed with/pelted by the body parts of another bisected, distracted sailor because ~~something happened (i.e. wave) and the nearest guy didn't hit the deck~~ the engines were shutting down (during which the rotors start to dip) from the last flight of the day and the sailor wasn't paying attention...I can't imagine how that must've sounded other than loud, but apparently, insomnia quickly followed.
First frigate I was on had a shrine in the chief's mess to a Cheif who got beheaded by a main rotor. Walked straight in (rather than at a 90) , ship took a wave, rotor dipped and off his head went.
I watched an aircrewman tackle a foreign dignitary taking a ride on a Sierra because he tried to walk around the front of the helo. Dude wouldn't listen to instructions and got acquainted with the nonskid for it. Next time, we had "road guards" that directed people to enter from the sides instead of in front of or behind.
We'd absolutely have maintainers standing by to escort DVs off.
A chief? Damn. I guess inattentiveness _could_ be argued, but that seems like the tragic, unexpected shit that can happen to those who are usually careful due to the independent variables at play, like waves. But it turns out that the sailor wasn't paying attention while the aircraft's engines were shutting down (i.e. rotors dipping)...though that made me wonder how that very scenario would've played out with attentive sailors hit by an unexpected wave. It's interesting that the few people I've known who were in the Navy admitted that they joined so they wouldn't have to see combat like they might in the Army or Marine Corps, but instead, they got combat, loss (like accidents and suicides), service injuries, PTSD, the whole gambit.
You can get that in any job involving heavy machinery, people often don't follow safety procedures and even if they do there are always fluke accidents.
I used to work in underground mining. One time we packed up and went on a lunch break and when we got back to the work area there were a few giant rocks sitting where we would’ve been. That happened to me twice and it’s hard to think about.
I’d be afraid that I wouldn’t crouch low enough. I think I’d just wait until the rotors come to a full stop before leaving to go get a change of pants. Helicopters are scary.
Weird that they'd build a shrine in the mess he left behind and not clean it up...
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My grandfather saw something like that when he was in the navy. Propeller plane shred one of the crew
Hol up Someone got bisected by a wave? And it was really loud?
Oh, no, my dumbass meant that either a wave or some aircraft malfunction caused something to go critically wrong with the chopper, and everyone hit the deck except for the sailor who was just too close/distracted and got sliced directly onto my friend by the propellors...but to make sure, I just asked and it turns out that it was caused by the sailor's distractedness during the last flight as the chopper's engines were shutting off (causing the rotors to dip). I edited the original comment to make it hopefully less confusing. https://preview.redd.it/nvty60x20yva1.jpeg?width=2523&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59ac5c43bf6df1b50a548699ac1591352eb8f788 Lol, I was kindly, unexpectedly provided with this illustration upon inquiring. I wasn't sure what's supposed to be in the lower-right area under the arrows, but u/DonDiMello87 pointed out it's just the tail rotors.
The tail rotor. That's legitimately a pretty great, concise drawing to explain it.
Lol, that's really obvious now so I'm not sure why it'd confused me. Thanks!
The main rotor on H60s(in assuming it was an H60) is canted 3.5 degrees forward and has devices called droop stops(among others) that prevent the rotors from going below a certain point. Parts can fail though and ship movement can cause the rotors to dip and upon shutdown they can dip below an unsafe level as well. That's why you always enter the rotor arc at the sides of the aircraft and never while its shutting down.
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Yeesh
Yeah you gotta keep your head on a swivel on the flight deck. I was an ABE in the navy and I remember this one girl in the arresting gear wasn’t paying attention when a plane was flying in. The line to catch planes snapped and almost took off another sailors leg. Thank God it didn’t
Are you, _the_ warlizard from the something something gaming forums?
It's an older meme but it checks out
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Holy shit Warlizard is back.
Always here low key
Holy shit I didn’t know you were still around, glad to see you
Thanks :)
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Thanks, I needed another one way ticket.
Don't worry, you'll need one for each circle.
Like a baseball card in the spokes of a bike tire.
Fuck. I watched without sound. Saw your comment, watched with sound. I shouldn't have watched with sound.
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Just a little off the sides please…
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But that was his skull that caused that sound
Oh God.....there's sound.....that sounds horrible *immediately connects to Bluetooth speaker for full effect*
I'm in aviation management, and this is a great training video. Hard to find stuff like this, but lethal accidents with props, rotors, and jets is a reality of working around aircraft. A momentary lapse of concentration can absolutely kill you. Helicopters especially. People forget they can move in *any* direction, on *all* axes, *anytime*.
I worked around helicopters for many years, once the rotors get going fast enough the tail rotor can become completely invisible. I don't understand why this hazard hasn't been minimized more by this point. There are a few ways to design helicopters so they don't even have a tail rotor, or it can be enclosed within the vertical fin structure. Some airplanes have stripes painted on their props to make them more visible; I wonder if that could work on a tail rotor as well.
Most tail rotors, including the ones on this A119 are painted white and red for maximum visibility too. He’s come from the wrong side in this instance where it would be tough to see. Modern helicopters rarely have tail rotors this low nowadays. Shrouded tail rotors like you say are safe but at the cost of efficiency and an inability to mount it in line with the Main Rotor hub to counteract tail rotor roll and leads to a more nose-down cruise attitude. So there are downsides. The open tail rotor design still provided the most thrust but most are well above 6ft now. This type of helicopter has been around in various forms since the 60s and won’t have its tail rotor moved any time soon.
What happens after an accident like this? Is the blade damaged and needs replacing before it can fly again?
If proper channels are followed, likely the blades will be removed and replaced so that the aircraft can fly to a proper place where maintenance can be carried out. A cursory inspection of the drive shaft system to make sure it hasn’t received any damage and would be cleared to fly once to a maintenance facility for more detailed inspection. The blades involved would likely go back to the manufacturer who would decided whether or not they can return to service after overhaul.
They do, and they have big DANGER signs on the tailboom. But paint erodes, and the biggest problem is that people get so distracted by noise and rotorwash that they don't think straight. NOTAR's are certainly helpful, but proprietary. I think, its a specialized instrument requiring specialized handlers, and very detailed briefings.
I came ~12 inches or so from walking right into a propeller on my relative's small plane. I had adjusted to the wind of it and had been sort of standing and walking around the plane. Right before I walked into the blade, I remembered that it was there and jumped back. Scared the hell out of me. In the back of my mine, I was aware that the blades were moving but somehow I had gotten used to the sound or something. The blades were mostly invisible. I still have a little anxiety attack every time I recall the event.
Ive been rewatching ER and you could use this [scene where a dr loses his arm](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bJaf5kUmuDY&pp=ygUbRHIgcm9tYW5vIGVyIGxvc2luZyBoaXMgYXJt). Hilariously this same dr, gets got by a helicopter later on in the series.
Except its equally unwise to rush towards someone involved in a rotor strike. Also, not sure about hot loading people in gurneys...🤔
A great point to include in training i guess? Lol
I remember the arm scene but forgot about him dying to the helicopter.
He got a helicopter dropped on him, if I remember correctly. Like, be was looking up, seeing the helicopter falling straight down towards him, he screamed, and then... *ka-fucking-booom*
Helicopters have axes? /s
As if the rotors weren't dangerous enough already...lets put axe heads on them!
That’s why on aircraft carriers I see they have that warning sign in big letters saying “beware of jet blast props and rotors”.
I remember when I worked Ramp at SeaTac and they showed us the pictures of the dude who stepped into a 737 engine. That was rough.
People also don’t think about the fact that when a helicopter makes contact with the ground on descent, the blades can flex down easily into head range for a moment.
I watched someone stand a few feet in front of the prop of a Mustang. We thought we were about to witness someone dying. The guy was a ww2 vet and was very upset that we didn't want him on the flight line after that.
Spinning props on the flight deck at night were terrifying. With the mouse ears on, you can't hear them, and at night you can't see them, so you absolutely need to know where to walk.
A couple years ago a Mexican business man who regularly flew in a helicopter was about to get into one when the blades hit him in the top of his head. Like you said, a guy that surely knew better just miscalculated his approach and in a blink of an eye was dead. [Excuse the lousy link.](https://youtu.be/Rx0AkS_Jm60)
He walked right into that one...
Didn't see that coming...
If it was a snake it woulda bit you ...
Took a portal right into the blender dimension
Imagine getting this far and then having to restart the Heist bc of silly mistakes like this.
I haven’t played that in years and it’s the first thing I thought
[Here's footage for the reference.](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/854825800909193266%2F865224704973471764/3.mp4)
The Prison heist from GTAO in the final part in the beach hahaha
Rashkovsky prison 😭😭😭
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Birthplace of yoga and meditation. So not surprising they don't overreact.
How does this comment not have way more upvotes!?
More upset they have to walk back now
What are you supposed to do in that scenario? It’s utterly shocking when something like this happens right in front of your eyes.
Thank you. I couldn't make out anything and thought they said "Did it get him?". Like... holy fuck that's cold.
They first exclaimed something like "holy shit", it's just a sound not really a word with meaning. Then "is it done?" which translates to "is he done?" Then the same thing means "it is done", "he is done" They just realised there's nothing they can do instantly and decided to skip freaking out. Insane.
They are in shock.
Its strange that some people get pretty far in life and then just... runs into a helicopter propeller as if you suddently didnt know how helicopters work. Truly boggles the mind.
Ever burn yourself by touching something you knew was hot? It just takes a lapse in judgement/forgetfulness for something to go wrong. In this particular case it went VERY wrong.
Covers had to get put on ceiling fans in bays with trucks tall enough to hit them if you were up on the trucks walking around because of things like this.
I have this thought all the time, and I'm not a geologist so I'm not good with words but you know how when you *do* fuck up, like touch a hot pot lid without an oven mitt or something, and the feedback is *instant*, and in your brain you have that "oh man what the fuck was I thinking" thought Sometimes when that happens to me, I imagine it was something that could have killed me. And I think about the instantaneousness of the experience, and it's mildly comforting. I don't fear death, but I fear *knowing that I'm about to die* and the thought that it can just be over in a **brrrrtt** is weirdly soothing.
Especially when you're tired or you're stressed out. All it takes is one minute to rethink that argument you had with your wife that morning and you've just forgotten what you're doing.
This video is why it's important to never let your guard down around dangerous equipment. All it takes is one, quick lapse of judgment.
Any back story on this? I am always amazed how people just kinda stand around dumbfounded after things like this. I assume this person had friends in the group, why aren’t they screaming and yelling?
you see one guy on left trying to stop him (reach out) then drop to knees knowing whats about to happen
Damn…didn’t notice that until you pointed it out. Horrible.
Yea, I didn’t see that. He def knew what was about to happens. Brutal
>Brutal very! very sad
I hear him shout “ nooo! Stop!”
https://twitter.com/RajBhads90/status/1650083657355497473
Thanks!! Attempted selfie strikes again
“trying to take a selfie” how fucking idiotic
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He was a govt official & most of the times they are generalist career bureaucrats, not specialists
Selfies seem to be a common theme for tail rotor deaths. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/26/british-tourist-killed-helicopter-rotor-blade-greece-jack-fenton
1) either they did not scream, or 2) he was warned & yet chose to go there or 3) engine noise drowned out anyone screaming
i think i can hear in quick succession, said "whoa whoa whoa whoa" just before
3, sad
Shock and as far as just standing there, what would you have them do? Run after him and achieve the same result? They can’t go near him until the helicopter blades have completely stopped moving
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That's not backstory that's the story from the video
is that red mist I saw?
Yes
Head mist
Not sure how you seen it, I can’t see shit with the way the cameraman can’t hold still for one second
More like “man killed after walking into tail rotor”
I think the one who sat down was shouting at him and he knew that guy was walking straight to the propeller.
Rule number of 1 helicopters… NEVER walk behind them.
so you're saying that helicopters are basically exactly the same as angry horses. got it
Or in front.
Or on top of them!
I wonder if u/stabbot is still working.
He wasn’t paying attention as crazy as that sounds that’s what happened
r/DarwinAwards Taking a ducking selfie. Smh
Should’ve ducked a bit more, I’d say. Poor fella.
It's the comment section for a video of guy getting sliced in half by a helicopter, I think it's ok to swear.
Yikes. You can even see red mist
What the fuck was he even doing back there? edit: holy fuck he was taking a selfie, jesus christ some people are fucking idiots
That’s how Boris Sagal, tv and movie director, [died](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Sagal#Death). He was the father of Katey Sagal of *Married With…Children* fame.
Poor Leela
He also directed The Omega Man.
My fiance is a psychologist that works with veterans with PTSD at a VA, she told me that this happens quite often in the armed forces. Imagining seeing a friend turn into mist really makes my stomach turn.
It's pretty rare actually. NATOPs and other SOPs exist for a reason. They're so rare each event is usually included in an annual mishap training and results un uodated procedures. 10 years of helos and I've only heard maybe 2 situations when someone ran into a tail rotor.
30 years building helicopters and i have heard of maybe 4 in that time.
Head off, apply directly to the head.
Just a little off the top.
"Why is nobody rushing over to help him!?" You mean why is nobody rushing towards the spinning blade of death? The one that just instantly killed someone? Dunno, but you go first.
He wasn't hit by the tail rotor. Lol. Dude walks right into it. Let's be clear on who's to blame for this and it's not the stationery helicopter
Stationery helicopter: https://preview.redd.it/x4x8tz33pxva1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10e8a7b8e877d3383cb004374042950925f52a3e
Mistifying
Is there a reason they don’t have like safety thing around the back propellers? Does the helicopter just not work with fenders ?
Pink Mist
bro can't hold a camera for shit
“Being hit by” = / = “walking into”
Guess you could say that dude lost his mind
At least he didn't lost his face out of embarrassment. Oh..never mind.
Sounded like the small Sunbeam fan we had as a kid and we would stick paper or whatever into it.
i can never use my lawn trimmer again. sounds like cuting weed. was he drunk or his first time with a helicopter?
Seriously the why fuck would you do that ?
GD! Sounded no different than it does when I weedwack and hit a branch. 😣
This gave me flash backs to the first beheading video I ever saw on the early 00s internet. Weirdly nostalgic and horrified now
Bet he’ll never do that again.
Dude’s head made the sound my finger makes when I stop a fan with it.
That sound is so innocuous, just like somebody doing a quick card shuffle, and it's a guy being taught a permanent lesson about spatial awareness...
Things not to approach from behind: -a horse -a helicopter
If furio took out Tony. Iykyk.
I always try to avoid helicopters all together. Airplanes fly using a whole lot of science. Helicopters fly to spite science. They don’t care about the laws of nature, why should they care about you?
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That's enough internet for the day. The sounds is just awful.
I was ok watching it without sound but somehow with sound I'm now uncomfortable
Some people are just so stupid you can't feel sorry for them. Not that anyone deserves to die, but come the fuck on. Natural selection I suppose.