There are more helicopters in the sea than boats in the sky.

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Yes, true.

Absolutely. All of that is dependent on if the tail rotor and the driveshaft is still intact though.

Helicopters can glide also, sort of. Autorotation is the way you can still land when you have a complete engine failure in a helicopter. You harvest the remaining energy in the rotor for one last landing.

I guess a crude analogy would be, you immediately put it into neutral, then throw it into reverse at the right moment.

In the best case scenario, it's safer to lose your engine in a helicopter than an airplane, because at least you get to choose your landing area, and you aren't landing with 60 knot forward speed.

IANAP, just an enthusiast so grain of salt.

Yes, it’s a repost.

And why is the pilot in the left seat? I thought helicopter pilots sat on the right.

The actual video seems to be very short but here is the full news report which includes it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0eRqLMlaSE

Another reason to hate Sea World.

I mean it’s still disingenuous to compare imo. There is significantly less air traffic than cars have to deal with. A better comparison would be planes and helicopters as they both use air space and are far closer in trips than cars.

...Woke up my 80's nostalgia...

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Also like motorcycles, helicopter crashes are much more fatal.

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According to the report the other helicopter was ascending from underneath- maybe the console partially obscured the pilots view while the passenger in the back could see it more easily?

Had the passenger pointed when he had the initial instinct instead of waiting and tapping... but then again, you trust your pilot to do hir job.

Based on description of the accident the guy in this copter is probably to blame as he struck the tail rotor of the other copter.

>Less than a minute after take-off, the departing helicopter (registration VH-XKQ)[7] was struck in the tail by an arriving helicopter (registration VH-XH9)

Pretty much a rear end collision. The people in the first copter had no clue what was about to happen.

Yea, that probably sucked.

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Unfortunately, the things helicopters can do outweigh the dangers associated with them. Planes can glide if something goes wrong. But something as little as a loose nut on just the right component in a helicopter immediately kills everyone on board.

Well this is a video from the helicopter crash in Australia a few months ago, not a new crash.

4 Died :(

The people in this copter were fine as nothing hit their blades.

The poor people in the other one though...

The other thing you need to look at is the jobs helicopters perform. I have heard of a ton of helicopter crashes when they work on power lines.

Absolutely insane that they all survived on one of those. A slow plummet to your death from that high up? Yikes.

To be fair a huge reason for this is that there are less things in the sky than on a road. A road has more obstacles, some of those obstacles are occupied by complete idiots, while a pilot licenses is expensive and offers a lot of training.

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