Rescue helicopter slides into snowmobile

[Flying Bull]

Hi all,
Luckily nobody was hurt, a resucue-helicopter slid into a snowmobile.
Oberwiesenthal: Hubschrauber-Landung am Fichtelberg missglückt - Freie Presse (http://www.freiepresse.de/LOKALES/ERZGEBIRGE/ANNABERG/Oberwiesenthal-Hubschrauber-Landung-am-Fichtelberg-missglueckt-artikel8685651.php)
There is a video on Facebook about that incident.
The EC135 landed, put up again on a different spot and started to slide while shutting down....
Fly Safe

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Not the video with the whole sequence, just the sliding

http://www.freiepresse.de/DYNIMG/78/32/4497832_W700.jpg

[skadi]

FlyingBull, please read over before posting! ( Länder? Ehen? )

skadi

[skadi]

Full video, landing incl., is on Facebook, just search user "Local Hutmacher (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=565118953579357&set=vb.100002437736887&type=2&theater)"

skadi

[RVDT]

Looks expensive!

A blade looks like it hits one of the poles in the ground on the RHS of the aircraft as it slides backwards.

On rundown it is a long way out of track!

Looks like the control cuff has failed at impact.

Definitely wont polish out!

http://www.blaulicht-paparazzo.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/140126-Hubschrauber-13.jpg

[Phoinix]

I don't think the cuff failed on impact. When it started to slid, the cyclic correction was huge and you can hear something crack, the helicopter shakes violently and continues downhill before blade impact.

Talk about bad luck... I'm glad nobody got hurt.

[RVDT]

Phoinix,

Good observation! Just looked at the Book Face video in HD.

Winter Tipps maybe!

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSN1LbN9yqO4RdoCck_lTJ6i055IEAk3NImdfFU8yr-8Dx0FYzM

[cattletruck]

The snowmobile getting wedged behind stopped it sliding further. Bad luck yes, but a bit of good luck too.

Slope landing 101 is to apply a bit of cyclic towards the down slope to test security before reducing to ground idle, it may/may not have been done here, the slide could also have been triggered by a bit of rocking from slow turning blades.

Glad nobody was injured.

[Vertical Freedom]

Here we have an classic oooops moment; not doing a thorough security/stability check after landing; by first stirring cyclic & a dance on the pedals - sad, forgetting to do that vital after landing check before throttling down :yuk: :ugh: :mad: in winter we regularly have slippery ice to land on, soft deep snow, on remote off Helipads there are loose uneven rocks, swamp & bunch of conditions that may cause instability....so always, always; check first, thoroughly :ooh: before selecting idle :confused: :=

Great Blessings for All, around bystanders etc. as no one got hurt :ok:

Land back Happy - always :)

[Flying Bull]

@skadi - sorry, posted using an IPad mini - and the bloody spellchecking mixed things up.
Hope everypody got the info watching the video

Greetings Flying Bull

[Wetbulb]

If the snowmobile hadn't been there, they could, quite literally, have turned 'NOTARZT' into 'NOTAR'.

[nomorehelosforme]

Bet the pilot is well pi***d off and has some explaining to do! No mention of why he was landing there? Assume rescue? Did another Helicopter attend to facilitate the rescue?

[rugmuncher]

Maybe he mistook it for a treadmill !:}

[MightyGem]

Well, he's not the first to slide down an icy slope. Mind you, it does seem a bit steep, and you'd have thought that the slide on the first attempt would have given a clue. :rolleyes:

[awblain]

Does the structure in the reflection on the top of the tail boom, aft of the horizontal stabilizer and forward of the fin, indicate expensive bending in RVDT's photo, or is that just the pattern of the local snow/trees?

[aa777888]

Very timely. I am a low time private working on commercial and did my first ice op's two days ago. I also noticed the slide on the first touch down. It is most unfortunate that, while it appears the pilot recognized the initial slide, was not able to or simply did not identify the problem on the second touchdown.

Not that I'm fully qualified to judge in any way, but given the recognition of the initial slide, it might be a case of "sh*t happens" in that after the pilot tested the second touchdown and while it passed his test it could have been such a marginal pass that he was caught without the rotor disc energy to solve the problem when it did finally break loose.

[Kulwin Park]

Does anyone have any close-up pictures of the blade strike, or root of the blade?
For something to give way at the blade root, for such a low speed strike during wind down, why would the blade snap, and not cause more damage at the leading edge?
Anyone know anymore info about the blade - just curious?
Thanks. KP

[Smokeyboy]

http://www.freiepresse.de/DYNGAL/22020/264224_W606.jpg

[Kulwin Park]

OUCH!! :eek:
Thankyou SmokeyBoy for that picture

[RVDT]

As Phoinix pointed out from the HD Video.

Big cyclic excursion forward at low RRPM.

This is the first place you inspect if MM exceeds limits.