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[SAS~Gerax]

 Cobra Helicopter Crash Caught On Camera while making "Top Gear Korea"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EsoWpTO2qg

[max_thehitman]

The laws of gravity on Earth say that "What goes up, usually comes down" .
It is a good thing no one was hurt in that crash, but it will be now called the most expensive race ever made.
That helicopter crash will surely cost them alot of money.

[Dark Apostle]

Ugh I cringed. Shame to see such a gorgeous bird go into the dirt. Thankfully both the pilot/crew on the ground nearby were not seriously hurt

[SAS~Malone]

looks like pure pilot error, though i guess something could've failed....

[Sleepingdragon]

I'm pretty sure that was the only civilian owned S model. Got lots of TV and movie work over the yrs. Glad he's ok, but that doesn't look repairable. Hollywood is gonna have to do some serious searching for another source of Cobra scenes.

[Typhoon Ib]

first time he pulled i thought "dude... tight stuff, watch out!" ??? ???

well... such is the way of the world. Boys playing with toys.

[LuseKofte]

We had a crash like that in Norway Spitsbergen. The conditions there are hard to fly. No vegetation witch can tell you where the wind goes.
The pilot made a similar, but not as tight turn against what he thought was the wind, resulting in a backfall wind and no lift. = crash.
In this case I think it was the routine that made the error, you could see at the pilot , everything he did was almost as he did it in his sleep.
Surley a very expirienced pilot, but as in my trade. It is the routine that make you mess up

[SAS~Gerax]

Here are another Crashs, HD:

in this one maybe the pilot was distracted by the jumping guy in the background?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R89ic9JesUc

watch the slowmotion what happens to the pilot although the seat belts
(at 1:47 he's nearly completely outside the Heli)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5aMT9MBfZI

[Sleepingdragon]

Over half of my late Dad's nearly 14000 flight hrs were in helicopters (TH-13, TH-55, UH-1H, Bell 206, AH-1J, mostly military flight instruction, but also civilian fire fighting and medivac) and he was very clear that a helicopter, unlike an airplane, is doing everything it can to come out of the air and kill you. Lots of physics balancing out that can easily get out of whack, especially when rotors hit stuff etc.

The two times he had to make an involuntary landing involved a TH-13 engine coming apart, and a Huey losing power; both resulted in auto rotation down. He and his student (in the mid 60s) were actually in greater danger from the giant hog that attacked the little chopper and kept banging its head into it. They landed in a farmer's field near Enterprise Ala (Ft. Rucker).

You better take cover and get 2D on the ground when one is coming down near you. He saw a midair between to of the 13s (Bell 47s) where the rotors of one went into the floor of another, and cut the instructors legs off, the student landing it. The other one wound up a fire ball, right in front of him on approach to a stage field.

I admire anyone who flies those things, especially in combat.

[kaxII]

Aweseome, crash luckily the pilot wasn't hurt!

[kaxII]

My interpretation of it