a close call?

[vapochilled]

Or, how to bend a quater using nothing but rectal muscle! watch it, see what I mean!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e870090bba

[Hoomi]

Yeah, I'd say that was maximum pucker-factor for the pilot, passengers (if any) and the deck crew.

Good that he managed to recover it enough to set back on the deck safely, especially considering the condition of the tail rotor after that incident.

[vapochilled]

looks like right deck crew cleared him, (pilot watching right crew man) does not see left deck crew running out after remembering he left a lashing on the bird?
could have been very very nasty

[schwa]

i would disagree, it seems like conditions changed on the deck and the pilot had to take off. mainly because he stated to take off and fly forward...into the superstructure of the ship. also, in the US Navy at least, there are usually at least 3 people on the deck....1 yellow shirt and 2 blue shirts, and both those jobs suck :) thank god i changed to spend the last 3 years as a combat photog

[heli-cuzz]

Did they send him to the poop deck?

LoL

[blax1]

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeesh
Nice way to start the day!! :eek:
What is the net for?? to catch it if she slip's?? or trip it over on lift off?? :confused:

[schwa]

the nets are to catch people. i had a friend who got blown over by a 53 and he completely missed the neeting and fell all the way to the water. some how he survived. and i was electrucuted by a 53.

[blax1]

and i was electrucuted by a 53.
Holy crap!! Does that mean I'm talking to a ghost :D
Sounds like a great job to resign from, when I saw the tail spin around I thought the guy up the back was mince meat, He is a very lucky individual!!! :) thats if he is still alive? and no other work place tragedy has taken him out :(

[Rappy1]

It was probably on one of those doggy asian fishing boats. I have had friends fly for them and he said on almost every helicopter he flew there was something doggy. When he arrived to pick up one it had no rotors on it so they went to a rust old barn full of hay and the engineer had a great big stand full of blades, he said the guy would look down them to check that they werent warped (like a length of timber) and then carry them to the heli and fit them not even checking there tracking once finished. On another trip was flying a heli that only had bolts for one skid so the other end had been cable tied up. And another trip a hughes 500 had the common fuel pump fail in the middle of the ocean so had to put down in the sea, the boat went on and finished its days shipping before coming to pick him up just as the skids were starting to deflate.

[Hoomi]

the nets are to catch people. i had a friend who got blown over by a 53 and he completely missed the neeting and fell all the way to the water. some how he survived. and i was electrucuted by a 53.

Sounds like someone didn't get the grounding cable properly discharged before you touched the heli.

People often don't realize just how much of a knock-you-flat-on-your-butt charge an aircraft can build up in flight.

[schwa]

yeah, thats excatly what happened. it was when i first got the flight deck. the fuel guys grounded the heli and started to pump fuel. we went in and got it ready to move i was underneath the left rear removing the tie-down chain when the Deck Chief got impatenint at the grapes (fuel guys where purple) and he kicked the tow bar, which fell and knocked off the grounding cable. woke up in medical. the only thing that saved me from going over was my head it the fuel tank on the side. the guy on the other side was there to.