Tail Rotor Strikes Fence

[@billyost1479]

The low fuel pressure pilot... talk about a clear mind. He was epic. No fear, only calm through confidence.

[@attemptedunkindness3632]

He even put his hands together for jesus at touchdown.

[@matthewspry4217]

The low pressure fuel light was flashing before and he failed to notice, superb pilot?

[@gatolibero8329]

Yeah that was awesome.

[@Mullikia]

Sure, when the runway is right there.

[@tooakki]

​@Matthew Spry ...superb-hater, that's you right? Let me know

[@TreadSlowly]

"it's gonna look dramatic but it's not" spoken like a guy who's practiced over and over for an emergency that may never come.

[@Itsfalcon9]

Aqp certified 😊

[@힐만94]

_"It's gonna look dramatic but it's not" he asked calmly_ 😅

[@brassdr]

AQP for GA for the win!

[@catrakes5276]

Agreed! This guy was solid as a rock and kept his passenger calm and in the know

[@marspp]

Yup. Engine failure in all phases of flight is one of the most practised things when training for a PPL. Good captaincy to keep the passenger calm (he was telling himself a bit too but did well). Anyone know a link to the full video?

[@WarHawkAU24]

"It's going to look dramatic, but it's not, okay?" All around awesome job staying calm and collected. He knew what to do and did it. Fantastic job!

[@MovieBuffReal]

You look dramatic as well as horrible!

[@matthewspry4217]

So why did he fail to notice the red flashing fuel pressure light 🚨 before the engine actually quit ? Superb pilot ? Have another think 🤔

[@adamk203]

@@matthewspry4217 okay, armchair expert. You try noticing a random warning light under immense task load while following takeoff and climb procedures. Chances are you won't. You'd be heavily focused on airspeed, altitude, heading, and attitude displays, as well as communicating with the tower and performing visual traffic observations.

[@johncarter1137]

@@adamk203 I am a pilot, and he should have noticed the flashing red light because a good pilot would be scanning instruments. His workload wasn't heavy on that takeoff. He performed the emergency landing well and told his passenger not to worry about the steep descent in a calm voice. I would fly with the guy anytime.

[@rydfree]

@@matthewspry4217 He most likely did. When you have an in flight emergency the first thing you always do is still fly the plane , then navigate to a safe place (while still flying the plane) and the communicate your problem (while still flying the plane) . He never panicked and stopped flying the plane.

[@ge2623]

They need to put a sign on that fence that reads "Do not hit with tail rotor."

[@4TheMotorist]

or "there is a bloody fence here dickhead"

[@j.griffin]

“Oh. I thought you meant don’t hit the SIGN…”

[@peterdarr383]

They need to move the fence 2 feet West.

[@ge2623]

@@peterdarr383 Maybe they can get a helicopter to do it.

[@davidclaudy4822]

Pilot error. Probably a low hour civilian trained pilot. I have been in confined areas smaller than that and was just fine. Poor situational awareness.

[@queenbunnyfoofoo6112]

That instructor did a great job helping the pilot....very calm.

[@cptkirkpyro5656]

This was a discovery flight. The guy on the left is the one flying and the one talking.

[@OpinionFactChecker]

The nervous laugh at the end says it all!

[@Ste_Brit]

The trainee massively overreacted and freaked out for no reason 😂 Even if the engine had stopped completely they could have still glided to relative safety

[@tdmap2241]

@@Ste_Brit Did you say the trainee!?! Then of course he had reason to freak out. I would also freak out. Any trainee would! And it is not like he freaked out uncontrollably and interfered with the pilot emergency landing. He very calm and contained.

[@garygolfer3243]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@Ste_Brit Actually, that was a calm, well composed passenger in that situation. If you’ve ever been to the Nut Tree airport you would know that although the terrain looks flat and open, there are very limited places to land. That said, if and when you learn to fly you will realize they did not have enough altitude to be choosy and gliding to relative safety is an old myth spread by non-pilots.

[@stevenrapp3217]

From a helicopter maint. person that has dealt with a tail rotor strike.....what a nightmare!!! Not only did we change the tail rotor.....also required changing of the tailrotor gearbox and tail drive shafts....the intermediate gearbox .... and ALL the drive shaft and couplings from the intermediate to the main transmission including the main transmission. (Sudden stoppage) Extremely expensive, however, I suppose prevention of later problems, it's a small price to pay.

[@peterdarr383]

What does it cost to move a fence 3 feet ??

[@stebstebanesier6205]

The low fuel pressure pilot was a perfect example of... Aviate, Navigate and Communicate.

[@pulaski1]

But apparently hadn't heard of the "impossible turn". He was _lucky_ that power came back (there was no pilot skill to that) and lucky not to be another statistic on Dan Gryder's weekly update.

[@femanvate]

No word is as unwelcome as hearing your pilot say "Whoa". He did a great job though, not only bringing the plane back safely but calming the passenger down.

[@TonyYarusso]

I think I’d take “Whoa” over any form of profanity any day…

[@JemimaPuddleduck777]

That instructor is a cool dude 😎 great 3 mins as always 🤘

[@RubenKelevra]

He's a pilot, not an instructor.

[@alexanderwalley2639]

I had a similar incident around Nut tree (KVCB). I was flying with a passenger at about 5,500 from KLHM to Half moon bay, and had RPM oscillations just over travis AFB, managed to descend and S weave into Nut Tree. Turned out to be contamination in the fuel lines. We drained the fuel, pumped new stuff through, and took off to return back to KLHM without any issues.

[@AnoraJohnson]

Ohhhh.....I pictured your plane tangled in a nut tree. Nut Tree. Got it.

[@secretsauceskateboarding4337]

The baby crying at 2:28 just reminded me how badly my ears hurt while descending. Big sympathy, bud. 😢

[@serg2963]

Fantastic job to the partial power loss pilot; he was on it! Very glad to see he didn't make an immediate 180 out of instinct.

[@viciousgr82]

Pilot 2, very professional. His calmness is quite an example. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@mmee123456789]

0:40 what a god tiered pilot for keeping calm and keeping his passenger calm also.

[@autofocusedbeats]

1:28 I would have been panicking! This guy has nerves of steel! 😅

[@stratfordbaby]

Panicking on landing???

[@storminnormin4651]

Kudos to that instructor “nice and gentle” ✈️

[@ehudgavron9086]

Helicopter pilot here. If you have that much uncommanded-yaw on your pickup you're doing it wrong. If he'd corrected for the yaw the tail rotor would be nowhere near the fence.

[@crazyralph6386]

Dude had zero situational awareness

[@TPAspotter]

Action packed edge-of-your-seat video today. Thumb up!

[@Qwertyuiop_memes10]

0:40 yep, thats a skilled pilot right there

[@TheFlyingZulu]

The most upsetting part of this video... 2:34 the crying baby. My goodness I would never travel without noise canceling headphones.

[@InquisitiveEngineer]

On the bright side, the response time was immediate when the injured fence called 911

[@ryanfrisby7389]

Great video, that emergency was handled perfectly!

[@treeguyable]

Hey, let's go up in the air, in something that crashes, if one of 500 parts fails, or a few birds decide to go kamikazi in the engine.

[@virginiafry9854]

I used to be the Chief Flight Doctor for that company - that tail rotor strike could have been deadly!! The hospital looks like Sunninghill, just north of Johannesburg. In the last clip you can hear a toddler screaming - its ears would have been experiencing troubles equalising air pressure.

[@ffjsb]

Isn't problems with air pressure in ears usually more prevalent going up in an aircraft???

[@ADKaizenProductions]

The direction of the H is there for a reason. For landing and taking off direction. Not do what you want.

[@jonathansmith7400]

Helicopters are a circle, they rotor disc is the same size no matter which direction the fuselage is pointing. You can land on the H in any orientation.

[@TheStuport]

I'm curious to find out how many flying hours the helicopter pilot had on their Resume when this "Accident" happened. I'm absolutely not a pilot but it seems to me in a rather "crowded area" as this helicopter was sitting before takeoff, the logical move would have been up and then rotate the bird. Just an opinion from a knucklehead! Cheers From The Clouds In Ohio!

[@patrickcannell2258]

Netcare Ambulance chopper. Johannesburg SA.

[@mattd6931]

He might not have been able to go forward, due to airspace restrictions, or cables in the flight path etc, hence the need to rotate on the ground when he had air cushion effect.

[@OOTurok]

The helicopter was not centered on the landing pad at liftoff. The pilot should have centered the craft over the pad, before rotating. This is classic, lack of situational awareness on the pilot. This has nothing to do with airspace restrictions. The primary reasons for rotating the craft after liftoff, is because of wind direction, & constricted LZs sometimes only have 1 way in & 1 way out.

[@nikazizi94]

Damn that A330 stopped better than my car 😂

[@johndonovan7018]

he does have better brakes than your car. seriously, go look at those things.

[@ollienilson1644]

Liked the comment very much. Really made my day.

[@notmenotme614]

@@johndonovan7018 yep a brake pack of multiple rotors and pads sandwiched together

[@crazyralph6386]

As a helicopter driver, it amazes me how often i see pilots simply lose situational awareness of the T/R, this being the second Medivac chopper that drifted into an object. If you’re going to do a clearing turn, try to pivot around the T/R while keeping it stationary. Once you start wondering off(especially in confined areas, you’re inevitably going to smack it, and cause major damage. Some of the newer 407’s even have T/R cameras to prevent this albeit, this could be an older model?

[@seandepoppe6716]

That was the clip that scared me the most. That is a medivac helicopter and they clips the fence on take off... Situational awareness is need upmost at these critical moments. Great job putting it back down safely. Hope the rescue operation went smoothly once they did get support in the air

[@crazyralph6386]

Yep, it could’ve ended up real bad. Still going to be an expensive fix though!

[@psalm2forliberty577]

Any idea what such damage may cost to fix ?

[@gkarfalcon]

@@psalm2forliberty577 Blades themselves somewhere in the order of $3000-$9000 (after market, don't know exact OEM prices) for a pair, say 4 mechanics to work on it paid at $40 an hour and about 3 hours to complete adds close to another $500, then any other overheads and parts that may need to be replaced, could be looking at upwards of $50k-$100k

[@stijnvandamme76]

@@gkarfalcon Damage to the connecting shaft, tranny? I would hope not the engine ?

[@kamikrazywarboy2008]

That EasyJet was coming in hot because of that screaming baby...

[@a.d.3606]

Either that helicopter landing pad is exceptionally poorly designed, or this is a repost from an old video. I swear I've seen another video here of the exact same tail rotor strike situation on that exact same fence here before! Anyone else notice that?

[@MatthewPettyST1300]

He aught to be happy he struck that fence so close to the ground which made it safer to land. Imagine hitting that fence at 5000 feet above the ground? 😉😛

[@dougerrohmer]

@@MatthewPettyST1300 Yes! There are hundreds of fences that high in Johannesburg! It's called Fence City!

[@Yonkage-ik5qb]

Seemed like the high wind conditions caused the helicopter to be pushed toward the fence and then spin around. You can't just not have a fence around a pad.

[@rqdtv]

Had he waited to start the turn/rotation at 3m rather than 1m, he would've been fine.

[@patolt1628]

@@Yonkage-ik5qb First there was almost no wind (look at the tree leaves), second a helicopter pilot is not "pushed toward the fence" whatever is the wind. I was a helicopter pilot and we are used to manage the wind while hovering, not a big deal. He just rotated the helicopter too soon (lack of situation awareness, that's it)

[@sierrajuliette7700]

2:49 "je remets les gaz" ... Il prévient même les passagers, quel pro! 😅

[@1967250s]

Good to see pilots making good decisions. Even the helo pilot had the sense to land immediately.

[@darioinfini]

The heli pilot would be insane to continue on his way after an obvious problem. There may be small margins for error in a fixed wing carriage; virtually zero in a heli.

[@d.b.1176]

He should have flown it straight to the helicopter repairman.

[@MattBurrill]

Even the helo pilot, you say? My gosh, what do you think they usually do when their rotors hit things?

[@d.b.1176]

@@MattBurrill Panic and crash.

[@johnwoodall3791]

Ouch for the Helicopter and a Cool Head wins the day in that Fuel Pressure Problem Landing. Cool Stuff. Great Video also. Regards

[@georgewashington1621]

Wow, that tail rotor sure can take a beating.

[@MeppyMan]

Extremely lucky! They don't normally survive hitting anything.

[@step4560]

That was just plain stupid on the part of the pilot. Checking for tail rotor clearance is what they teach you on the first day of flight school. Pretty sure that guy had to find a new career...

[@crazyralph6386]

@@step4560 especially when most 407’s have T/R cameras mounted on the belly! completely needless.

[@juanrodriguezjr451]

Great instructor. Deserves much recognition

[@RubenKelevra]

He's a pilot, not an instructor.

[@kaitak_]

Who decided to bring a Gremlin onto that EasyJet flight

[@AvgDude]

The low fuel pressure pilot did a great job of dealing with the problem and not scaring his passenger.

[@fearme8049]

Putting up with that screaming kid for another 20 mins. Yayyy

[@sandymoonstone855]

. WHO"S RESPONSIBLE : THE PILOT OR ROTOR ?

[@ericinzesky1077]

great as always, thanks a lot ! 🙂

[@Jin-Ro]

Liked before I watch because they're always good.

[@tomstamford6837]

That chopper was not such a 'care' flight. 😆

[@kj4ilk]

i could tell by the extra loud hmmmmmmmmm sound that soemthing was wrong

[@stratfordbaby]

Shame on the chopper pilot. Why rotate at such a low altitude. Complete failure of situational awareness.

[@enfantterrible4868]

whatever that plane is at 0:35, it looks incredibly unpleasant to fly, regardless of the engine failure

[@tdmap2241]

My thought as well....

[@ButchNackley]

Okay, if the red light is a warning of low fuel pressure, why did he ignore it until the engine sputtered? As soon as the video started playing, I saw the light flashing and figured that's not normal.

[@MeppyMan]

The pilot talks about that in a new video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZqlgqehf8x-bpo that it isn't uncommon for the light to come on at takeoff then go out. Also, the position of that warning light is not ideal.

[@stevenbeach748]

I’ve never flown that aircraft before so I can’t say what that red light is for but in the traffic pattern, you’re supposed to be looking outside the aircraft. I counted six seconds from when the video started to when the knew there was a problem. Six seconds of not looking inside at the panel is quite common.

[@Heike--]

@@MeppyMan Great comment...thanks for linking to that video! It's the pilot himself! A cool dude, too.

[@surfingcavachon]

We all need a co-pilot like that in stressful times

[@matth7516]

Love your videos, even though they are painful to watch 😂

[@johnpollard4158]

A balked landing procedure? Is that like a goaround maybe?

[@analogman9697]

Thwere are few others doing similar ccompilations, but yours are the best.

[@onyxorigin]

You just know what you're gonna get 😎🛩

[@skipsteel]

EasyJet Baby screaming priceless.

[@VickersDoorter]

That last airport is Nice. Nice!

[@seandepoppe6716]

Always love this content. Thank you

[@dryan8377]

When was the easyjet supposed to apply the air brakes?: After the wheels touched down or just prior? (not a pilot)

[@jafo766]

Futt me in all , with all their training and HIGH VI$ VE$T'$ they did not notice LZ was to tight.

[@Ximan69]

seeing that dude smile after landing was wholesome af.

[@grzegorztarkowski7954]

1:34 did you censor audio?

[@steveshuffle]

Nice was my worst landing (followed by takeoff) ever. Battered by cross winds like crazy ever since descending over the alps and onto the sea. the plane was a jello for 15-20mins. Maybe for the pilot was a bit of fun, for me it wasn't 😅

[@melrose9252]

Tail rotor hitting fence. That fencing material is expensive.

[@XRPcop]

Lots of video regurgitating lately. Can't find new clips?

[@10028ar]

That kid on the easyJet is screaming like somebody's strangling it

[@MeppyMan]

Babies struggle with the air pressure changes, it's really uncomfortable and even painful for them. When you travel a lot screaming babies are not that uncommon during climb or landing.

[@JohnSmith-ei2pz]

@@MeppyMan Try business class!!

[@julietphillips1991]

Did the tail rotor strike helicopter pilot say, "Oh f**k!" You think?!

[@TiagoSeiler]

What type of aircraft was the one with the low fuel pressure video?

[@Dyson_Cyberdynesystems]

Hey. South Africa represent!

[@Itsfalcon9]

I want to see Dan gryder react to the emergency landing shortly after departure

[@craig7350]

You're a Trump supporter too aren't you?

[@machintrucGaming]

He'd say bad practice, kills too many people.

[@Itsfalcon9]

@@craig7350 no I voted for Biden and believe in covid Dan is still a good airplane expert

[@amah9185]

The footage of Etihad A330 is very old, also showing the Etihad A340 which was phased out a long ago !

[@rhuntington3]

Another great video! Thank you!!!

[@888ssss]

that helicopter pilot is so fired.....!!

[@tobarstep]

1:27 It sounds like "chocolate milk available"

[@icewalker117]

wow - that 1st chopper one is close to where i live

[@michaelcarmean4906]

No Excuse 🔥 Your Fired

[@ariochiv]

Somehow I don't think I'd feel very confident flying with an airline that calls itself "Easyjet."

[@jbnews]

They're fine, European budget airline. They have more than 300 aircraft and fly hundreds of routes

[@Earthneedsado-over177]

Kind of sounds like a mortgage lending outfit.

[@Twobarpsi]

Or with that possessed screaming baby...

[@greenidguy9292]

Or Ryan Air…😂

[@cdhagen]

Say what you want about Easyjet and Ryanair (customer service, working conditions, etc), but their safety records are outstanding.

[@DugrozReports]

Was gollum on the last flight???

[@RodgerMudd]

Why is the copter so close to that fence. Stupid place to put it.

[@kevinpenner7125]

Great flying....👍👍👍

[@Qboro66]

You know a landing is likely not going to happen when the babies on board the plane are all crying in unison...

[@icollectstories5702]

But I thought you stayed in a holding pattern until every baby hits full volume -- is that not true?

[@onyxorigin]

@@icollectstories5702 😃😁😁

[@IntelligentEating]

EasyJet flight looks like nice Côte d’Azur - notorious for wind shifts

[@TDOBrandano]

I am pretty sure they went around because they didn't manage to blow the tires on the first try.

[@Boss_Tanaka]

They went around because the screaming baby ruined the landing

[@konni6694]

Botched landing, screaming baby... the classic Easyjet experience

[@patolt1628]

It is Nice

[@IntelligentEating]

@@patolt1628 yeah 04R

[@Daniel-vh9lg]

1:27 She say "Chopper not available"? Well of course not we just watched him back into the fence!!

[@russcrawford3310]

Why is that a balked landing procedure? ... that was a regular landing procedure that was high and outside ... why should the runners advance? ... the call is just a ball, not a balk ... let the pilot line things up again and land properly this time ...

[@unknown_astro8433]

A Helicopter is one the only things ill never go on

[@VanderlyndenJengold]

Titanic?

[@VanderlyndenJengold]

Space Station?

[@finalsolution6831]

Me too

[@facebookreal]

Why? It's only sketchy in low-visibility conditions

[@ZeroSpawn]

if the engine stops and auto rotation isn't an option, every one will go splat

[@samrock7632]

Why would the pilot ever decide to swing the tail, which is out of his line of sight, towards the only potential obstacle/ hazard? This was very poor judgement on the part of a pilot, if there were a critical patient on board, this error could be a matter of life and death.

[@youtbe999]

I too have the red flashing light on all the time whenever I don't wear the seatbelts, buy I keep on going.

[@johnfranklin8319]

The only immediate obstruction in the fence 25 feet from you….and you swing your tail directly into it!

[@brungraf]

The helicopter pilot forgot about the fence behind him ?

[@rlyle5804]

Why is so much of the video blurred?

[@CapStar362]

that TR Strike, he is LUCKY he still HAD a TR after that !

[@volkandemir1009]

00:20 - Unlucky pilot.

[@PatHaskell]

Should you extend flaps when you are losing engine power?

[@Rilex037]

depends, he was way too high on that landing and needed to slow down fast.

[@CharlesTPrimm]

How could that helicopter strike possibly happen? How bad is that pilot??

[@RLTtizME]

It isn't the same as when you fly your Pride Kites.

[@jesse00pno]

2:34 : I’d have jumped out the window or the door while we were that close to the runway if I’d have had to listen to that squalling kid in the plane. I can’t STAND parents who don’t sedate their kids on flights.

[@stdnk2332]

Where is my another 5 Seconds of Aviation?

[@Nicksonian]

On the Easy Jet…was that a screaming kid in the background or two fighting cats? If only small children could be banned from flying.

[@edcew8236]

Why make a radio call on the upwind? Not useful, just clogs the frequency

[@flugbeg7501]

you featured the clip with the fence-hitting helicopter already last year…

[@jimw.4812]

Fence strike never should have happened.

[@loganmain4244]

1:35 vacaville has the best pilots

[@mikebravo3527]

Little Bob Ross inspiration brought you fellas down safe

[@hotrodray6802]

I watched a medivac 206L back over a fence, put the tail rotor past the fence, it he had 1 ft verticle clearance. He hovered there 45 seconds then left. He never knew that it happened until i told him later, and he called me a liar. BTW I ran the other way before the possible wreck. Before video phones.

[@funone8716]

Helios have the handy ability to take off VERTICALLY. Note to pilot...

[@jackmidd123]

I’m no pilot but I’m sure the helicopter could’ve been more than a foot off the ground before a 180 manoeuvre