Bell 505 down in Georgia 🇬🇪
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Bell 505 down in Georgia 🇬🇪
See below links to 2 news reports both state 3 people died and one states that it was not a wire strike. Another mountain crash, wondering what the weather was like that day? How many 505 crashes have there been?
https://jam-news.net/three-die-in-he...ian-mountains/
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/3-ki...-crash-2049004
https://jam-news.net/three-die-in-he...ian-mountains/
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/3-ki...-crash-2049004
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Could it be that the video was taken by a night vision camera? Not an inkling of flare before impact, And definitely much faster than a night autorotation would look like.
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The video shows an aircraft at 100KT or faster, descending with 1500 ft/min or more in a straight line into slightly raising terrain. Explosion on impact. None of the newspaper articles cited give a time of day when the accident happened.
Could it be that the video was taken by a night vision camera? Not an inkling of flare before impact, And definitely much faster than a night autorotation would look like.
Could it be that the video was taken by a night vision camera? Not an inkling of flare before impact, And definitely much faster than a night autorotation would look like.
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Video quality is lacking but at least in the slow- mo it looks like its spinning. The trajectory is pointing slightly progressively downward. Difficult to dicsern in the video if the Main rotor was still intact and attached, although the trajectory is probably a bit too straight for a missing Main rotor.
Still I would not completely rule out a high speed wire strike stripping the MR.
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If loss of tail boom (for whatever reason) at high forward speed would produce such a flight profile? Maybe...
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Don't know what the background of that question is but what we see in that video bears not the slightest sign of lack of any kind of energy...
Video quality is lacking but at least in the slow- mo it looks like its spinning. The trajectory is pointing slightly progressively downward. Difficult to dicsern in the video if the Main rotor was still intact and attached, although the trajectory is probably a bit too straight for a missing Main rotor.
Still I would not completely rule out a high speed wire strike stripping the MR.
Video quality is lacking but at least in the slow- mo it looks like its spinning. The trajectory is pointing slightly progressively downward. Difficult to dicsern in the video if the Main rotor was still intact and attached, although the trajectory is probably a bit too straight for a missing Main rotor.
Still I would not completely rule out a high speed wire strike stripping the MR.
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Helicopters don't spin at high forward speed at the rate we saw in the video if they still have their tail boom/vertical fin attached, and particularly with the engine not producing power. There is engine power spinning that thing, and no vertical fin or TR thrust countering it.
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It looks in the video like the boom and fin are attached. If the tailboom had separated the ship would flip not spin in relatively level attitude. So loss of tail rotor thrust for whatever reason seems obvious. As the 505 has a well proven drivetrain design error can be excluded. This leaves maintenance error, FOD or bird strike as probable causes.
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Still possibly a wire strike
It looks in the video like the boom and fin are attached. If the tailboom had separated the ship would flip not spin in relatively level attitude. So loss of tail rotor thrust for whatever reason seems obvious. As the 505 has a well proven drivetrain design error can be excluded. This leaves maintenance error, FOD or bird strike as probable causes.
