Apache Helicopter Crash Afghanistan

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Silly Boy

Link: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3c6_1332299048

sparrowcar

Very strange.

donvito99

F**kin' 'ell

Palmy

Thats what happens when your hotdogging around.Someones ar8e is going to get chewed over that.:eek:

nungesser

yikes, pilot error there i'm afraid, looked survivable till the thing flipped off the ground, hope those poor guys are ok

Blue Punto

Too low to use ejector seats aswell:D

Palmy

I would say that the the skid mark left on the ground is not the only one left behind.New undies all round:p

muppet01

Silly boy, deserves the book to be thrown at him for showboating.Some poor bastard in the days to come will be cryin out for air support and they are now minus one very valuable air asset

Buffman

Thats a video definition of CFIT alright!

Wouldn't want to be that pilot when Uncle Sam looks for his Apache back.

That guy on the ground had a very close call!

Dacian

Jesus Christ, I thought those guys were supposed to be well trained. What an idiot, if he had of hit anyone on the ground he would be up for murder/manslaughter.

That's even worse than the guys dipping into a California lake last year. At least they weren't in danger of hitting anyone.

shedweller

It looks like it happened at a reasonably high altitude. Would the lift of a helicopter be affected much at that altitude?

balkanhawk

shedweller wrote: »

It looks like it happened at a reasonably high altitude.
Would the lift of a helicopter be affected much at that altitude?

Density altitude would deffo be an issue with a heavy machine like that. The blades would be less effective and the engines wouldn't be cranking out maximum power.

Also being a twat probably didn't help.

meat bomb

Stupid people can happen at any altitude in any machine, but cameras in remote areas seem to bring them out of the woodwork, very lucky there weren't fatalities

cocoshovel

Pilot survived from what I hear. No official link but someone quoted this on another forum

Pilots in an American army helicopter have survived an extraordinary crash captured on film in Afghanistan.
The Apache AH-64 chopper is shown taking off from the Sar Howzah district in the Paktika province.
In the incredible footage it flies over buildings before doubling back on itself.
But somehow it approaches the ground too quickly and is shown slamming into the snow, spraying it around them.
The craft is even flipped on its top as the helicopter's rotas fling it across the landscape before coming to a rest.
Miraculously the two people on board the chopper survived and no-one on the ground was injured.
Last night the International Security Assistance Force said it believed the incident happened on February 6.
A spokesman confirmed that US Army officials were investigating how the accident unfolded.
He said: "At the time of the incident, two AH-64s were conducting overwatch for an ISAF patrol that was gathering supplies which were airdropped earlier in the day.

johngalway

If any Taliban were watching I'd say they'd be laughing their arses off.

Manic Moran

balkanhawk wrote: »

Density altitude would deffo be an issue with a heavy machine like that. The blades would be less effective and the engines wouldn't be cranking out maximum power.

On the other hand, the chopper didn't seem to demonstrate any difficulty in rapidly climbing five seconds before the impact, and the temperature would have been a fair bit below standard.

NTM