Fukushima Prefecture AW139 crash land, no immediatefatalities
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better shot of T/R here. 3 stripes and possibly no drive on impact. Agree with SAS, brilliant outcome with no flames or deaths.
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2...al-police.html
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2...al-police.html
Mature aircraft, HUMS, a T/R failure would be an extremely rare event. We should be hearing something soon from Leonardo. Noooby?
Really odd that there was no warning at all, or was it a judgement call to keep flying despite some hint because of the heart and 5 min from landing? Sim training, the way the box is programmed there is lots of incentive to keep the speed up, they may have still got some speed on after it disappeared out of view on the video. When we were gods gift instructing we could do 0 airspeed autos from 500’ with the H300. Didn’t think it was possible with a 139 -min auto speed I believe is 40 but without a T/R even 100 feels better for that extra keel effect. Maybe HK piloto “RM” can chime in with what worked for him.
Really odd that there was no warning at all, or was it a judgement call to keep flying despite some hint because of the heart and 5 min from landing? Sim training, the way the box is programmed there is lots of incentive to keep the speed up, they may have still got some speed on after it disappeared out of view on the video. When we were gods gift instructing we could do 0 airspeed autos from 500’ with the H300. Didn’t think it was possible with a 139 -min auto speed I believe is 40 but without a T/R even 100 feels better for that extra keel effect. Maybe HK piloto “RM” can chime in with what worked for him.
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Re: another comment about 5 police being aboard- the helo was part of the prefecture police force. Some aboard may have been there to provide ground transport of the heart at both ends of the flight.
The 5 police would have included the 2 pilots.
Arghh right. The left seater didn't become effective until it was time to give the abandon ship order, in Chinese. I trust at least the paperwork was in perfect order.
One must ensure the paperwork is correct otherwise the Accident Investigators shall call you out for any errors.....so give the guy a break!
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TR failure?
Pilot tried well and very good outcome. Was the heart recipient a fatality?
Good thing it was not over a city.
Could have been a CATASTROPHE ?
to gain airspeed in a rotating helicopter ideally the cyclic needs to move in the cockpit at (negatively) the same rotational rate, ie constant bearing.
Pilot tried well and very good outcome. Was the heart recipient a fatality?
Good thing it was not over a city.
Could have been a CATASTROPHE ?
to gain airspeed in a rotating helicopter ideally the cyclic needs to move in the cockpit at (negatively) the same rotational rate, ie constant bearing.
TR failure?
Pilot tried well and very good outcome. Was the heart recipient a fatality?
Good thing it was not over a city.
Could have been a CATASTROPHE ?
to gain airspeed in a rotating helicopter ideally the cyclic needs to move in the cockpit at (negatively) the same rotational rate, ie constant bearing.
Pilot tried well and very good outcome. Was the heart recipient a fatality?
Good thing it was not over a city.
Could have been a CATASTROPHE ?
to gain airspeed in a rotating helicopter ideally the cyclic needs to move in the cockpit at (negatively) the same rotational rate, ie constant bearing.
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The right MLG is out. Maybe the crew had time to lower it when they realize something was coming up. Or can it come out after they crash? Or maybe they had an dual hydraulic failure..?? (don't think so...)
of course they didn’t have a dual hydraulic failure! They would all be dead!
to partially address one of your concerns in a more affable, friendly and less pompous fashion, yes, the gear on the 139 is held up by hydraulic pressure and any significant pressure loss will cause gravity to lower, but not lock the gear.
Let's look at the video. Right hand spiral descent at very low speed is symptomatic of a low Nr condition with low tail rotor effectiveness and a relatively high collective position. The reasons for the potential low Nr condition are unknown but the low nose attitude is indicative of an attempt to regain airspeed while disk authority is borderline effective. The successful arrest of the RoD to survivability may have been based on flare increasing Nr, hence tail rotor thrust and overall reduction in descent.
Let's look at the video. Right hand spiral descent at very low speed is symptomatic of a low Nr condition with low tail rotor effectiveness and a relatively high collective position. The reasons for the potential low Nr condition are unknown but the low nose attitude is indicative of an attempt to regain airspeed while disk authority is borderline effective. The successful arrest of the RoD to survivability may have been based on flare increasing Nr, hence tail rotor thrust and overall reduction in descent.
Right hand spiral descent at very low speed is symptomatic of a low Nr condition with low tail rotor effectiveness and a relatively high collective position.
Seems more likely that following a TR thrust failure, he has lowered the lever to reduce tq reaction and lowered the nose to gain speed.
If you can find a video of an RAF Wessex over a lake in Wales that suffered a TR drive failure, you will see an identical spiral descent.
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Seems more likely that following a TR thrust failure, he has lowered the lever to reduce tq reaction and lowered the nose to gain speed.
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Once the fuselage yaws 90 degrees to the direction of travel, the drag increases exponentially and you're an involuntary test pilot and might have little say in what the aircraft does, at least for a few seconds. With a rapidly rotating fuselage, pitch may become roll and roll may become pitch.