What Happened?

[megan]

Any ideas, seat belts would have been a good idea? On the 9th of July 2018, a helicopter crashed at the South Inylchek Glacier base camp in Kyrgyzstan during the landing procedure. On board were mostly tourists and kyrgyz military personel, among which were 2 germans, 4 polish and 4 japanese citizens. Miraculously, no one was killed in the crash, but four of the injured passangers had to be immediatelly flown to hospital, some with life threatening injuries. It's still unclear what caused the helicopter to lose control, but experts believe that it was the result of human error.

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WoW! - initially it looks like an oleo failed or the wheel went into a hole or something, then it seemed reasonably calm for a few seconds until all hell broke loose and it rolled over.

Lucky there was no post-crash fire!

[PPRuNeUser129638]

Originally Posted by megan

Any ideas, seat belts would have been a good idea? On the 9th of July 2018, a helicopter crashed at the South Inylchek Glacier base camp in Kyrgyzstan during the landing procedure. On board were mostly tourists and kyrgyz military personel, among which were 2 germans, 4 polish and 4 japanese citizens. Miraculously, no one was killed in the crash, but four of the injured passangers had to be immediatelly flown to hospital, some with life threatening injuries. It's still unclear what caused the helicopter to lose control, but experts believe that it was the result of human error.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8uyf7e0P3o

At a guess:
Smacked the landing; put the blades out of phase; they didn’t shake themselves back in; reduced performance and loss of control followed by an even heavier contact with the terrain.

Thank goodness it didn’t burn. They tend to do that.

[3wheels]

There might have been less injuries (maybe non) if they had been sitting on seats and properly strapped in, rather than just being thrown into the cabin with all the baggage.

[gulliBell]

You hear a bang as it touches down then it goes wobbly with a sudden decrease in RRPM. As if he put a wheel on a rock and it slipped off. But that wouldn't explain the decrease in RRPM which gets pretty low during the wobbles before the rotor blades whacked something. Unless he had an engine failure on touchdown and tried to take off again, but at 13,000 feet altitude that was never going to work.