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This is what happens when Helicopter pilots play too much BF2 before flying the real thing
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2006/helicopter-landing-p1.phpJebus! I hope that fellow who fell out was okay though. I’d rather be inside a helicopter than outside when it did something like that.
One of the guys I used to work with (it was Ewan Insane) used to be in the army and he was supposed to get a lift in a Lynx to another base. For some reason he couldn’t go, so his mate got to travel in it instead of him, and Ewan had been looking forward to it. Anyway, the chopper takes off gets up to about 50ft and the rear rotor stops, which is very serious. The guy is sat in the back with no headphones or a mic, just earplugs, so he’s oblivious to what’s going on, but the rest of the soldiers in the back of the chopper hang on for dear life. The pilot thows the Lynx into a nose dive and then pulls up at the last second, crashing it into the ground and skidding it about 50ft before the main rotor flips it over on its side. I don’t think anyone was killed, but Ewan said he was quite pleased he didn’t get to fly that day and had watched the whole thing. If the rear rotor had gone wrong at 300ft+ it would have had a different ending.
Oh bugger – just noticed someone else has posted in another thread.
Oops. Sorry.
(Get’s my post count up!)
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