I was talking to a friend today and he mentioned that you could problably survive a fixed wing midair but it would be impossible to survive a helicopter one.
Strangely, the only 3 pilots that I know have been in a helo midair, have all survived and are still flying today.
Incident one,
Texas 1982, Bell 212 vs. Cessna Piston, my friend only 20 years old at the time was getting his training in the 212, just as they were getting ready to roll the throttles to idle for a straight in auto, the Cessna decided to land on their TR and he tells from there on everything became a blur all the way to the ground. He survived without a scratch.
Incident two,
Chiapas Mexico, 1985, Two police Bell 206's were flying two cute french girls over the "agua azul" waterfalls here in Mexico (picture I took of the waterfalls included), one of the 206's flew sideways into the other and completely ripped off the skids of the my friends 206 with the MR, he tells me the helicopter instantly skewed into a rhombus shaped fuselage but kept on flying, the other helicopter inmediately sank making a very hard crash landing, my friend descended to drop off one of his pax to help the people on the fallen heli, returned to base landed on the helicopters belly, came back to pick up the others in a 212. All 5 people on the 2 helicopters survived.
Incident three,
Mexico City, 1980's While doing some sort of aerial parade, two Bell 206JR's got a little too close and the MR blade tips touched, one of them fell on top of a very large bakery, and the other suffered severe vibration, landed inmediately, nobody was seriously hurt.
Any of you have any stories with a positive outcome to share?
