Chopper down in Auckland

[Crasherfromwayback]

Holy Moly...hope everyone involved is ok!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6017775/Chopper-crashes-on-Auckland-waterfront

[Latte]

Holy Moly...hope everyone involved is ok!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6017775/Chopper-crashes-on-Auckland-waterfront

He walked away , there's footage on the TVNZ site.... definitely worth a watch.

[White trash]

Fuck my brown goat, that looked nasty. Pilot was one lucky bastard to not fall out and get further fucked up.

[Katman]

Fuck me, that guy with the hard hat picked the wrong direction to run in. :shit:

[Ronin]

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/raw-video-helicopter-crashes-in-viaduct-4561143

(http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/raw-video-helicopter-crashes-in-viaduct-4561143)Better Vision. You can see him looking at the wire before hand.

[unstuck]

Bummer, some of those chopper jockeys can be a little too sure of themselves.:facepalm:

[Crasherfromwayback]

I know absolutely nothing about flying choppers, but it didn't look like a great place to be flying one to me.

[Katman]

Back in the Nam........

[Paul in NZ]

Bummer, some of those chopper jockeys can be a little too sure of themselves.:facepalm:

Damn, bit like some biker types eh? - he had a Hi Viz vest on too....

[slofox]

Reckon that chopper's fucked, eh.

Lucky man, the pilot...

[Crasherfromwayback]

Reckon that chopper's fucked, eh.

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Nah...it'll buff out.

[nodrog]

Its a fake, you can see the wires.

[nudemetalz]

....broken flying blades improves on one's running skills... :eek:

Glad the pilot is okay.

[Ronin]

Damn, bit like some biker types eh? - he had a Hi Viz vest on too....

Until he takes responsibility for his own actions he shouldn't blame the wire. :innocent:

[Swoop]

If the wings are moving faster than the fuselage, then it is already unsafe...:shifty:


Lucky he was wearing a hi-viz vest...:shifty::facepalm:

[unstuck]

I have spent a lot of time flying around the mountains in choppers when I worked for doc, and some of those guys are fuckin insane. Funnily enough a few of them are dead just now.:bleh:

[Berries]

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I thought the thread had promise.

[curly]

On the news it looked like one of the workers underneath the chopper pulled one of the wires into the rotors.

[scumdog]

On the news it looked like one of the workers underneath the chopper pulled one of the wires into the rotors.

Sure does...trying to be helpful or????

[davebullet]

Faulty chopper. Look closely at the video. None of the airbags deployed.

[Pussy]

Sometimes it's the wire you know about that kills you.
Peter Button flew into the wires that he helped install.
I nearly flew in to a set of high tension wires that I had been working around all day.
Just a moment's inattention sometimes....

[Wiki Drifter]

Faulty chopper. Look closely at the video. None of the airbags deployed.

They only deploy during head-on collisions.

[nosebleed]

I thought the thread had promise.

Obvious Tag: fuckin bang.

[PirateJafa]

Never too soon.

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