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Tiger G 24th Jul 2019 20:20

Helicopter accident Colombia........
 
One person left in a coma, another with both legs broken...during a shot for a soap opera in Colombia:

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=s40ZC_1563977318

Max Power 3503e 24th Jul 2019 21:19

Another good VRS training video for the library.

havick 24th Jul 2019 21:34

Looking at the swing of the load, it looks like someone’s first attempt with an external load with any sort of length of line. Didn't see a hoist or hoist operator, so assuming vertical reference.

tartare 25th Jul 2019 01:28

That video speaks volumes about how solidly Bell products are built.
Amazed the skids were able to absorb that rate of descent!

hookes_joint 25th Jul 2019 01:59

Nobody is going to hang off a line below somebody without extensive experience. I’m assuming t/r failure or some other mechanical issue. I would have preferred to have dropped the guys from the survivable height they were at initially when the problem developed rather than put them in that violent swing and send them hurling at the ground.

malabo 25th Jul 2019 02:42

I’m with havick, I’ve seen the same teaching beginners long-line. Add some weight (3 on board plus two on the rope), density altitude, overpitching with rotor decay, less effective tailrotor and she’ll come down yawing right. Amazing it held together, with the tail fin flexing when it hits the ground. I’d be looking closely at the witness spike under the transmission.

[email protected] 25th Jul 2019 05:17


Another good VRS training video for the library.
I think SWP is far more likely.

Ascend Charlie 25th Jul 2019 05:36

No, no, it was LTE, and definitely not the pilot's fault.....(where is that sarcasm emoji??)

Having seen how an inexperienced pilot can "chase" a swinging load and get 180 out of sequence with it, I feel that this is what happened here. The machine was physically moving around, not just yawing, to fling the load out to the side like that. Load got close to the trees, pilot flares and pedals away from it, starts to fly in the other direction (load accelerates away from trees), pilot turns again to stop that movement, and it goes to worms with the load people swung around almost horizontal. Amazing the loop didn't pop out of the sideways-facing hook of the 206. Tail rotor appeared to be working OK.

tartare 25th Jul 2019 06:34

Wot's a witness spike?

Bell_ringer 25th Jul 2019 08:23

Looks like he lost the tail and dumped the collective.
Another good example of looking good for the cameras syndrome.

[email protected] 25th Jul 2019 09:55

If you droop your Nr, which he seemed to do, you will definitely lose TR effectiveness very quickly - it might be a chicken and egg thing here.

Ascend Charlie 25th Jul 2019 09:58


Wot's a witness spike?
The little upside-down cone thingy that hangs off the bottom of the Xmsn inside a ring of softer metal which is on the work deck. If the Xmsn gets a big rock up, the spike dings against the metal and deforms it, and is evidence of a "spike knock", i.e. hand over your cheque book, sonny, this is gonna cost ya.


Looks like he lost the tail
Eh???

SASless 25th Jul 2019 11:33


Nobody is going to hang off a line below somebody without extensive experience.
You know this how?

FH1100 Pilot 25th Jul 2019 12:34

There is a video on Facebook (to which I cannot link) that shows this ship in a fairly well stabilized hover as a ground crew removes the damaged skids. Once that is done the pilot sets the ship down on a specially built cradle. I'm assuming they flew it from the film site back to the airport after the hard landing. I'm also assuming it was a different (and better!) pilot.

GrayHorizonsHeli 25th Jul 2019 12:58

"That video speaks volumes about how solidly Bell products are built."

Most Bells, end up with the rotor head laying somewhere beside the aircraft. Not actually solid in my books. This one though, is the unicorn of the Bell world.

Gordy 25th Jul 2019 16:09


Originally Posted by hookes_joint (Post 10527517)
Nobody is going to hang off a line below somebody without extensive experience.

This is in a third world country. I can tell you about a game show in Mexico where contestants were told to hang on to a boom on a helicopter, (like a spray boom), while the pilot flew around a lake and tried to shake them off..... They had no training, and the first time they saw it was when the helicopter showed up. The pilot was told which person should "win" and to "do what it takes" to get the others off in shorter time......

Vertical Freedom 25th Jul 2019 16:50

VRS?...................NO way Josë

SWP?..................Maybe? OverPitching = Nr droop, massive TR authority going, going, gone :O

Pilot.....................Maybe? (if none of the above, then; Yes) :ouch:


Happy landings VF

hookes_joint 27th Jul 2019 10:45


Originally Posted by SASless (Post 10527871)
You know this how?

Being one of the guys on the top end looking down for a few thousand hours. I’d be pretty selective if I were on the dangly end

SASless 27th Jul 2019 12:05

Having been on both ends of said dangly thing....I cared not doing either.

There is a huge difference in the responsibility I had for the external loads I carried....drop a piece of machinery and the Boss Fellah can buy another one.

Drop or otherwise do in a human being....and they cannot be replaced.

While doing Live Hauls I devoted every essence of my abilities (far in excess of hauling a load of bagged cement or water for instance) to ensuring the folks got back to the ground safely.

I always remembered in the event of a malfunction of any kind or magnitude....my first priority was getting the people down safely first then it was my turn.

Ascend Charlie 28th Jul 2019 00:31


I always remembered in the event of a malfunction of any kind or magnitude....my first priority was getting the people down safely first then it was my turn.
Sassy, tend to disagree. We always briefed that if there was a person on the hoist when we had an emergency, the three or more in the aircraft were more important than the one on the wire. If we were losing power and descending, we would try to let him hit the ground before cutting the cable, but my priorities were on getting the aircraft and crew safely to the ground. If he was at the skids, keep reeling him in, but if below the skids he had to be cut off when safe to do so, to avoid squishing him.


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