planedriver Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 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> 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motzartmerv Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Thats an old one, but shows the violence involved when you convert all that energy.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planedriver Posted February 20, 2014 Author Share Posted February 20, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motzartmerv Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 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!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylon500 Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 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.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrZoos Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Holy crap thats insane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Isaac Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron5335 Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 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" !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnm Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 ------------ 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperplace Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnm Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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