Firetruck collides with chopper in Chile.

[mechan9]

Scary stuff.

News link with video on the ground

Couple of captures from different perspectives.

Fast forward to about 2:05 on the first video.

 

[Groundpounder]

Chili? Really?

 

[NickH]

 

[av8tr1]

WTF?????? So much fail here.

Both the driver of the fire truck and the pilot had chili for brains

Why the frack didn't the pilot shut down the aircraft? If I didn't see the line about the pilot getting injured I would think it was unmanned. But apparently the pilot was in the aircraft. Sounds like the engine is still running at flight idle the entire time? Was he/she not strapped in and the torque threw them out of the seat? Disengage the tranny, roll the throttle off, lose the rotation, apply rotor brake. How hard is that?

 

[Beefy McGee]

Is that a chunk of a Hershey chocolate bar on top of the middle of that pot of chili?

 

[smack300]

Is that a chunk of a Hershey chocolate bar on top of the middle of that pot of chili?

You've never put chocolate in chili??

 

[uncreative]

They take sideshows to a whole nother level down there. It amuses me that a helicopter's primary failure mode is always 'instant self destruction'.

 

[Minuteman]

They take sideshows to a whole nother level down there. It amuses me that a helicopter's primary failure mode is always 'instant self destruction'.

It's a defense mechanism.

 

[PositionAndHold]

All I could see was a dog chasing its tail.

 

[deadstick]

WTF?????? So much fail here.

Both the driver of the fire truck and the pilot had chili for brains

Why the frack didn't the pilot shut down the aircraft? If I didn't see the line about the pilot getting injured I would think it was unmanned. But apparently the pilot was in the aircraft. Sounds like the engine is still running at flight idle the entire time? Was he/she not strapped in and the torque threw them out of the seat? Disengage the tranny, roll the throttle off, lose the rotation, apply rotor brake. How hard is that?

We don't know what the SOP is there. There appeared to be a lot of activity around the aircraft right before the crash. I think it was in the second video that somebody appeared to load an empty litter.

The front, back, sides, top -- they all fell off.

 

[derg]

This ain't Cincinnati!

 

[A Life Aloft]

Is that a chunk of a Hershey chocolate bar on top of the middle of that pot of chili?

Po' man's mole sauce.

 

[deadstick]

This ain't Cincinnati!

I just made some this weekend and that isn't nearly enough.

 

[MikeD]

LZ security. It's a wonderful thing.

 

[Nark]

Quite possibly the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

 

[av8tr1]

Turns out the two knew each other prior to the incident. As part of the investigation they managed to get a copy of the last text between the pilot and the driver of the fire truck......