View Full Version : R44 crash State of Minas Gerais Brazil
finalchecksplease
24th Jan 2017, 06:59
BKX9oR21ND4
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=956_1485141225
Anybody know the elevation and typical temperature at this location?
CRAN
skadi
24th Jan 2017, 09:44
The lake is around 760m ( 2500 ft ) MSL, temperatures around 25°C
skadi
Soave_Pilot
24th Jan 2017, 10:11
Looks like a typical weight overload followed by wrong controls input like left turn, and turning downwind. That was a R44 astro, with carbureted engine.
WillyPete
24th Jan 2017, 10:37
The engine sounds like it's losing power just after the pilot yanks back on the stick in the second circuit.
Loss of power leading to LoC, or pilot action reducing the Rotor RPM and slowing the engine down?
BOBAKAT
24th Jan 2017, 11:49
or governor failure and high power.....Loss RPM
Soave_Pilot
25th Jan 2017, 11:20
Loss of power leading to LoC, or pilot action reducing the Rotor RPM and slowing the engine down?
Thats was a scenic flights operation. There is another video of him trying to take-off and losing Rotor RPM right after losing ground effect, he then turns back (w/ left turn :ugh:), he then somehow manages to take off. That aircraft shouldn't be there fully loaded (5 POB according to newspaper :=) graphs can prove that. Elevation 2550 ft and temperature around 25c.
Thomas coupling
25th Jan 2017, 12:23
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=193012
No-one hurt.
Another Robbo removed from the planet :ok:
Nige321
25th Jan 2017, 15:36
The view from the inside....
DashCam video... (*****************IDen)
JBL99
25th Jan 2017, 15:59
Can I hear the low RPM horn pretty much all the way through that?!
Hot and Hi
25th Jan 2017, 16:09
Don't blame it on the helicopter. It was actually flying quite nicely.
Spunk
25th Jan 2017, 16:09
Ignoring the low Rpm horn for that long is just beyond comprehension.
206 jock
25th Jan 2017, 16:13
I suspect the strange short circuit was an initial decision to land because of the horn. But then it went off so he decided to carry on.
Two big guys in the back....disaster written all over it. Holes in the cheese lined up one after another there.
Mind you, with all that shrieking going on, I'd have ditched it too!
BOBAKAT
25th Jan 2017, 23:33
Poor instruction level of the low rpm horn...
Few year ago a similar crash happen in the alps and people on the back recording all.
during the approach, the low rpm horn warn, but pilot don't take care, do nothing and continue approach face to the slope and crash...
BOBAKAT
26th Jan 2017, 00:03
another one : https://www.facebook.com/yago.volpato/videos/1425420120835963/
Is there a non-Facebook reference for the video? I can't see it.
CRAN
Spunk
26th Jan 2017, 14:29
@CRAN so there is actually another person on this planet besides me who doesn't use facebook 👍
skadi
26th Jan 2017, 16:15
Even with normal FB-account, the vid isn`t visible. I think its in a restricted group...
skadi