Comments on: Aircraft Crash Videos

By: Andy Leffler

Andy Leffler — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:57:19 +0000

Good grief. that Mig crash is probably one of the most amazing video’s I’ve ever seen. I don’t understand how those guys got out of it, but it’s pretty cool that they did.

By: Ray Marco

Ray Marco — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:45:36 +0000

The Sea King crash –
Might they had a better chance if their wheels were down? It would have been a very heavy landing, but the oleos might have absorbed some of the impact and they may have got away with it.
…. Of course their engineers might not have thanked them, because it sure would have needed a good checkout afterwards.

By: S

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 14:26:21 +0000

LOL what funny videos

By: Mark J New Zealand

Mark J New Zealand — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:36:33 +0000

If anyone is interested the footage of the hughes 300 crash was taken in the mid eighties. California, USA.
The pilot (Hogg) was an experienced fixed wing pilot who had like so many of us (myself included) seen the light and decided to go rotory. The pilot had recently purchased the hughes 269c and was told by his instructor to “wait for me, I will be 10mins, dont touch anything” Well this chap could not wait and thought it would do no harm to work through the checklist eventually he’d worked right trough the checklist and got and completed to starting section and then the engaging the drive clutch which engaged the rotor blades. He even brings the engine revs up from idle to flight! Well once this done that machine is ready to fly. It is true that the H300 has a history of vibration raising the collective lever if it is left to its own devises. Well the NTSB report does include the pilot explanation to be that, sure enough, after getting this aircraft to its full ready for flight potential he was busy doing something else, (prob playing with the radios or similar) and the collective raised itself up, and away she goes.
The footage shows the classic results of a fixed wing pilot let loose on the controls of a helicopter. The pilots response to his situation is perfectly understandable.
Look at the footage again and you will see the sequence:
1, A/c gets very light on its skids as collective slides ever up wards, note its desire to yaw to the right as torque reaction increases.
2, a/c lifts off pilot grabs cyclic (joystick looking control) and pushes forwards to try and get the machine “down”, well do this to a helo and it thinks you want to ‘go fly’ which it promtly does!!
3 A/c moves forward and climbs then pilot reacts to the right turn by banking hard to the left and genrally ‘chases’ the machine around the sky.
4 Pilot finally gathers his thoughts to start using the collective (up/down lever) which has until now had free range to do its own thing. The pilot obviously dumps the collective down which immediately stops the rh spin and starts to bring the machine downwards.
5 A/c gets very close to the ground so pilot ‘flares’ his machine (as you would in a fixed wing) well this is done to late and to low.
6 A/c tail rotor strikes ground and desintigrates
7 A/c, now deprived of its anti torque rotor, spins on the spot quickly swiping off its remaining tali boom and main skids.
8 Engine still valiantly tries to drive the rotors which are now sadly floppinging scrap metal

The pilot was apparently almost completely uninjured except for a cut to his left hand. This really does prove how safe helicopters can be as long as you deliver them to the ground with a very low rate of descent and a low forward airspeed as amazingly this guy did. The results are not pretty but he does litterally walk away minus 1 servicable helicopter and a large chunck of cash.

PS if you ever find yourself in proximity of a crashing helicopter, hit the deck!!!, becuase the energy in those rotaing parts will deal you a very nasty and usually terminal blow if they come your way. I have heard of a Jetranger rotor blade departing its grip and promptly pass through a barn door, through a motorcycle petrol tank, through the back of the barn before lodging arrow like in a tree 5ft beyond!!

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:56:02 +0000

Are you saying that the B-52 refueled while inverted? 120 degrees of bank is 30 degrees BEYOND knife edge. The aircraft would refuel while upside down?

Even an Extra 300 flown by an accomplished aerobatic pilot would have a hard time maintaining that attitude with the requisite level of precision for any length of time.

By: SAC

SAC — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:31:00 +0000

FYI on the B-52 and KC-135 – back in the Strategic Air Command days (SAC), instructor pilot candidtates in the B-52 were demonstrated air refueling at 120 degrees of bank. It can, and has been, done.

By: Francisco Neto

Francisco Neto — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:14:59 +0000

Hi! Watching these video push all aviators that love aviation to learn about what happen, and lead attitude and behaviour to save others lives and themselves!
We can learn more about if we watching more videos!
All people that know about what is showing here, should to say something about!

By: peter

peter — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 11:26:14 +0000

big boys .com now has a flying scale model b52 pretty cool until it crashes.peter

By: peter

peter — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:51:16 +0000

it must be my imagination,or does jurgis kairys plane bear a resemblance to a radial engined mustang?

By: peter

peter — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:32:38 +0000

if your model plane watchers want to see something stunning go to bigboys.com and click on f14 model.keep up the good work peter.

By: Jake, CF Sea King Pilot

Jake, CF Sea King Pilot — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:38:11 +0000

To set the record straight. The Sea King Crash video is from an Air Show in Schenectady NY, on 4 Aug 1991. The Sea king was
tasked as a static display but due to a requirement to move the helo during the show and a lull in the show schedule, it was asked to do a brief demo while airborne. The crew were in the high hover (300ft) and allowed the aircraft to sink causing it to enter VORTEX RING STATE (look it up). The Ac was unable to arrest the descent and the Aircraft impacted the ground. AC, FE and Technician sustained major injuries with Cojo and Navigator sustaining minor injuries. Post accident investigation did not uncover any alcohaul related activity.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:18:09 +0000

Man, I look at the copter one with the news, and I realize how hard it is to flight a helicopter, especially one without a rear rotor. I’m surprised they could handle it how they did.

By: Combat Medic (Retired)

Combat Medic (Retired) — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 02:29:53 +0000

The second to last appears to be the Seaking crash at Schenectady, NY in 1992 (I think that was the year) if so here are the details. I was working the Medical clinic at the home base of the SeaKing (Shearwater Nova Scotia – Canada) at the time and was required to pull medical files of all the aircrew.
The aircrew was at the airshow on the runway, they had performed a basic fly-by then parked on the side of the runway. The Air cews state that they were asked to move the aircraft as it was blocking the movement of other aircraft (this was not proven or disproven)
As the aircraft took off and hovered at a low altitude creating a situation where the air pushed down by the rotors is deflected out and upwards by the ground and then back into the top of the rotors. This creates a suction effect (I don’t know the technical term for the effect) and the aircraft literaly gets sucked into the ground.
I don’t remember the full complemnt on board, but there were at least 3 souls on board, Pilot, Co-Pilot, and a flight engineer or load-master who was sitting in on the edge of the loading door without any restraints (seatbelts or monkey tail) They were all taken to local hospitals, treated and returned to Canada.
Like I said, it was over 10 years ago so I don’t recall all the details, and being a medic I didn’t understand all the technical aspects of the crash investigation.

By: calvin singleton

calvin singleton — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 18:09:03 +0000

I think that this page is brilliant to reflect the accidents that people have been in because any loved ones they lost can proberbly be traced to this page and can be a memorial site for the dead…….

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 05:13:52 +0000

NTSB Identification: LAX87LA190 .
The docket is stored on NTSB microfiche number 35617.
14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Sunday, April 26, 1987 in RUBIDOUX, CA
Probable Cause Approval Date: 2/17/1989
Aircraft: HUGHES 269B, registration: N101DN
Injuries: 1 Minor.

A HUGHES 269B WENT OUT OF CONTROL AND COLLIDED WITH THE GROUND DURING A T/O TO A HOVER. THE PILOT HAD PURCHASED THE AIRCRAFT RECENTLY AND WAS LEARNING TO FLY IT. HE WAS SCHEDULED FOR HIS FIRST FLIGHT LESSON ON THE DAY OF THE ACCIDENT. THE CFI REPORTED THAT HE HAD TOLD THE STUDENT PILOT TO WAIT FOR HIM AND NOT TO TOUCH ANYTHING. WHILE WAITING FOR THE FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR, THE NON ROTORCRAFT RATED STUDENT PILOT STARTED THE AIRCRAFT, RAN IT UP TO FULL RPM, AND THEN BEGAN TO INCREASE THE COLLECTIVE PITCH CONTROL. THE HELICOPTER CLIMBED VERTICALLY TO A HIGH HOVER AND THE PILOT LOST CONTROL. THE PILOT STATED THAT HE HAD NOT RELEASED THE CYCLIC FRICTION BEFORE BECOMING AIRBORNE. THE PILOT INDICATED HE HAD ABOUT500 HOURS OF FLIGHT TIME BUT DID NOT SPECIFY THE TYPE AND NO SUBSTANTIATION OF THE TIME COULD BE MADE.

The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows:

DIRECTIONAL CONTROL..NOT MAINTAINED..DUAL STUDENT
JUDGMENT..POOR..DUAL STUDENT
VERTICAL TAKEOFF..UNCONTROLLED..DUAL STUDENT
INSTRUCTIONS,WRITTEN/VERBAL..DISREGARDED..DUAL STUDENT

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:42:52 +0000

A Spanish tourist pulled off the bridge stunt in Scotland two summers ago. He got arrested but ultimately got away with a severe verbal warning and a promise that if he ever did it again he’d be in very serious trouble!

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3043308.stm for details.

By: pablo

pablo — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:49:09 +0000

Hi ABOUT THE F-15 CRASH VIDEO

The plane it crashes with int an F-22?? pass the video slowly and check it.

Anyway, I think the video is original and it hasnt been splitted.

The game the next person makes reference is “Lock on” ” modern air combat” a fantastic game.

bye bye
/////the videos in this section ar amazing\\\\\\\\

By: Mossoi

Mossoi — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 02:43:39 +0000

Can anybody shed some light on what on earth the pilot was doing in the clip posted by franke? He must have broken every rule going!

By: List

List — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:46:39 +0000

The guy that flew under the bridge received all special permits for such event. The bridge was insured, the plane and he too.
And we do have minimum safe altitude rules in Lithuania (we live near Baltic sea and we prefer the term Baltic States instead of former soviet republics (Soviet Union sucked and we were part of it not by our free will. anyway, thats why we first broke away from it))
The same happened when J.Kairys flew under the bridges of other Lithuanian city (it was Vilnius, not Kaunas btw)

By: Nymon

Nymon — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:51:28 +0000

Nice forum.

By: bake

bake — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 01:16:09 +0000

Great site!!! I laughed so hard at the moron flying the helicopter without any flying experience. It was like he was trying to figure out how to play a playstation game without reading the booklet, as i have done many times. At least i wasn’t putting myself in danger. Needless to say, i was glad to find out the moron wasn’t hurt.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 19:38:40 +0000

In years of flying helos with T58-GE-5 and T58-GE-8b turboshafts I never saw or experienced a flameout.

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 05:21:52 +0000

I don’t think I’d venture into missile stuff. Not that there’s anything wrong with it. But this site is more geared toward general aviation. This crash page is just a single entry I made one day, just for the heck of it.

If you do a Google search, however, I’d bet you could find some decent footage and information on unsuccessful missile launches.

By: Woody

Woody — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 23:02:35 +0000

Great site. Any way you could add missile mishaps? All those great missiles that failed to launch successfully from Vandenberg AFB and Cape Canaveral.

By: Jim Woods

Jim Woods — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 22:43:43 +0000

Regarding: “Anyway, I´d like to know if the crew of the Sea Knight was hurt? It seems to me that the wreckage disappears into the ocean right away…Do you have any info on this?” from franke — June 23, 2005 @ 8:38 am

My understanding was that the entire crew was lost at sea, literally. No bodies were recovered.

By: shawn

shawn — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:44:22 +0000

The R.C. demo was the shi-ite!!!Gotta get one now!!! Where can I find/fly one?///

By: Mohannad Ballal

Mohannad Ballal — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:57:29 +0000

Dear,Its a very nice site,and i think you have to update it from time to time.
Wish you a good luck.

Capt.Mohannad Ballal
Dahla Aviation Compane

By: Mike Kearney

Mike Kearney — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:37:38 +0000

More information regarding the “darwin” hughes pilot: The helicopter was a
Hughes 269B, FAA registration N101DN. The NTSB ID for the crash is LAX87LA190. The pilot’s name was Clive Hogg.

By: kiesha

kiesha — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 20:45:45 +0000

the man in last video who flyies under the bridge is Jurgis Kairys.in 2000 he flyed under all bridges in kithuania.it was great thing

By: franke

franke — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:50:57 +0000

I was told by a danish airforce pilot that the french Airbus was the first to attend a start and landing with no pilot at all (completely automated), so any blaim of the pilot is irrelevant… Maybe too much money spend on something that didn´t quite work, is the reason of all the secrecy about the incident…