What do you think about the guy gently tapping him on his shoulder? Every time I see that, I think that the tap only further distracted the pilot. It drew the pilot's attention to the passenger instead of out the window.

the passenger points at the other aircraft, but the pilot has to turn almost all the way around just to see the finger.

Most helicopter accidents don't involve scratching some paint on the parked car behind you.

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That sucks. Over water. Nope nope. Nope.

ADS-B is a catch all term. ADS-B is mostly US thing, ADS-B differs by country and in Canada there is no requirement for it, no idea what oz has for requirements.

There are different levels and kinds of traffic warning system that work off transponders of all kinds. Problem is you have to set the alert range on them. Thats easy in an airplane, just warn if anythings comes within 5miles. If it goes off all the time you reduce the range or end up muting it. They are far from perfect in slow moving aircraft.

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Thx for pointing that out, I guess that’s my non-native English failing to understand.

They said rate, not number

Look up, "the Jesus nut".

Wouldn't they have ADS-B Transponders and some sort of air space monitoring would tell them

"Watch the fuck out"

one major problem is that you can do a lot of crazy things with them, but non of those is as simple as it looks. hovering near a powerline for example is risky, chasing cattle in the australian bush too. our airrescue pilots here in hamburg managed to land old hueys on streetcrossings without ever crashing.

So what’s the number of accidents per car and what’s the number of accidents per helicopter? You comment seems kinda obvious to me since there are way more cars then helikopters. I bet the chance to survive a car crash is bigger then a helicopter crash tho

That pilot had terrible situational awareness.

Just like that guy from M.A.S.K.

A tourism helicopter has nowhere near the amount of automations/alerts that a commercial jet does.

Isn't there alarms usually?

I'm not a pilot, but one would imagine that he has a ton of interfaces in front of him which he's using to maintain speed / trajectory / elevation / what have you. the pilot isn't necessarily concerned with what's going on 360 degrees around him with the naked eye.

why none of those interfaces are capable of warning him that another craft is barreling towards him? that's my question.

The accident rate of helicopters is much lower than cars.

helicopters are the motorcycles of the sky

Do helicopters ever not crash? Seems like there's a helicopter accident every month these days.

How did the passenger see it before the pilot?? Wtf, were his eyes painted on?

Here's a picture of the two helicopters after the collision. The helicopter in the video is the one on the right which managed to land. Everyone survived in that one. In the other helicopter the pilot and 3 passengers were killed and the remaining 3 passengers survived.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-64171191

Looking at other tweets, someone linked a news article. The people we are seeing survived. 4 people in the other helicopter that we didn't really see died, everyone on board as far as I can tell. Tragic. I feel for their families. Happened in Australia.

Where’s the rest of the video? They dead?