Accident : What happend here ?

[Gunship]

http://www.filecabi.net/host/file/helicopter-bridge/wmv

Damn .. bad accident !

Does anybody know what happened here ?

To low after drop off ?

Entanglement ?

Engine cut ?

Just out of curiousity.

Many thanks

Gunss

[Thomas coupling]

this happened a long time ago.

[Gunship]

Tx Thomas.

Can you remember what happened ?

Just saw it by chance as I screened through these video's posted here : http://www.filecabi.net/

[BossEyed]

A quite horrible video. :(

More info here. (http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/news/Korean_Chinook/korean_47_bridge_crash/korean_47_bridge_crash.html)

[ShyTorque]

Remember this one quite well. I believe it was a loss of spatial awareness by the pilot combined with a lack of crew communication. They didn't help themselves by using a relatively short strop that didn't allow much room for error once the load was down.

Very nasty. :(

[Gunship]

Tx a lot BossEyed and ShyTorque.

The link basically says it all and if there was no rumours about engine cuts or so - it was pure comms failure between the cockpit and the rest of the crew.

What a shame - that for a sculpture.

[SASless]

One could assume the sortie (if planned right) would have had the aircraft at a minimum fuel state...and after released from the load...even with an engine failure....an empty C model Chinook would not have any problem getting away from the load and flying away from that height.

[Tony Chambers]

It is very clear as to the cause, the strop was indeed too short for that kind of load. The rotors made contact with the load whilst trying to release tension on the strop so that it could be released without damaging the sculpture. Tragic accident, but a lesson for the future.

[Gunship]

One can only assume then their way of thinking was - high and difficult lowering on a windy bridge - let's use the short strop ?

Sad consequences but a lesson learnt as TC says.

Must admit - high / windy sling work on long strops was never my favourite and would no tbe missed.

Also lost a very good friend in Cape Town a few years ago while dropping an aircon unit on a hotel.

If I remember correct it was either the smallest wind sheer that took them into a Stannic sign or crew miss communication.

Sad results anyway.

[HughMartin]

Without wishing to show any disrespect to those involved in the accident, this topic came from an interesting source of aviation video clips.

The one near the top of the list showing the blonde with icing problems also highlights a couple of pertinent points that we can all learn from.

http://www.filecabi.net/

[Thomas coupling]

Did this happen in Thailand or Turkey or Torbay!!!