Video of crash 206

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 23:17:46 GMT, wrote:


It sounded like engine failure to me, however if that was it, the
pilot should have been able to manage it better than that. Does that
heli have hydraulic controls? What happens to the hydraulic controls
if the engine fails? On a car, you still have steering, however, its
a lot harder to work whe the engine quits turning the hydraulic pump.
Is it the same way on a heli? If it is, then maybe the loss of
control was the pilot trying to force the controls.

Dennis.

In an engine failure woudnt the Jet Ranger yaw to the left? It looked
like a pretty abrupt uncommanded right yaw to me.

(Thomas Magnum) wrote:


In an engine failure woudnt the Jet Ranger yaw to the left? It looked
like a pretty abrupt uncommanded right yaw to me.

We'll probably have to wait for the ntsb report to be sure. I'm not
sure how long that takes, but I know one locally that happened in Feb
that is still waiting. (Last I checked.)

Dennis.




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Pretty much seemed like classic LTE to me, "highish" power setting,
low forward airspeed and pilot may have been concentrating on the
target of the camera shoot. It would be interesting to know the angle
of the wind.

They were fortunate to be so low, a similar incident in Melbourne
Australia several years ago (Bell 206 filming) happened from just
under 1000' and the injuries were severe - there's video footage of
that somewhere, filmed from ON BOARD the helicopter: very scary stuff!

And, of course, some prime examples in my book "Fatal Traps For
Helicopter Pilots" (see http://www.fataltraps.com ) - I'd be silly not
to mention that of course!

Compliments of the Festive Season everyone,

Greg Whyte