Top 5 Amazing Helicopter Emergency Landings

Today we're doing the top five amazing helicopter emergency landings! Everyone featured in today's video managed to get out safely, despite the odds.
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[@howey935]

I used to work on oil rigs and have been in quite a few rough helicopter flights and landings and I’ve got to say all the pilots were exceptional at flying and all of them were The calmest people I’ve ever met and didn’t seem to have any nerves.

[@steelwitness]

I can say for a fact that hearing air traffic control congratulate you for your successful crash landing are the most powerful words you will ever hear. When i was 16 I was in a tour helicopter crash and I had my eyes closed when we crash landed. the only reason I knew I was alive was that I could hear air traffic control saying "beautifully done God bless". I opened my eyes and could see emergency vehicles racing towards us and a crowd of people clapping and cheering that we were alive. Nothing will ever kill my faith in humanity after that day.

[@richardkupke8944]

🙏🙌

[@erichahn65]

The news chopper pilot deserves some real serious kudos for his great job of landing without injuring others...

[@Huey7703]

I piloted Hueys for 12 years, good job guys.

[@5783greg]

The definition of a Helicopter is as follows: One million random parts whirring around an oil leak waiting for metal fatigue to happen.

[@Lazerus2008]

Those naval boys have got some balls. Landing a bird on the back of a ship in a 30 ft sea takes some nerve.

[@kirstenwernerkyndi4322]

Royal Danish Navy, did what the US said could not be done :-D But I am in awe and envy all helo pilots everywhere. Wish I was them :-D

[@matthiouremy4266]

@@kirstenwernerkyndi4322 kobe aussi

[@Wolfdings]

Wow No.3 is outstanding! Obviously the rear boom is faulty and the pilot struggles to keep the helicopter from spinning - yet in the end he releases the pedal for a moment to let the copter turn around to a full horizontal stop just before he sets it to the ground. Impressive skills!

[@conspiraciesarejustgreatst2059]

In the first clip, I didn't notice the deckhand staying as flat as possible until after the helo was stopped and he began to stand up. Dudes got balls. Had no place to run, but still has big balls

[@chris746568462]

I think i would have been in the sea. He was right next to the tail rotor as it hit the deck.

[@deafmusician2]

I would have seriously considered jumping off

[@toxicity4818]

Same, didn't even see him until he stood up. Got chills because first thing that came to mind is what would I have done. Probably would have at least tried hanging onto something and hanging off the side, but this dude just knelt and accepted it. Has balls for sure.

[@Wailwulf]

The first clip is actually an aborted take off, or a major screw up after having actually landed. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZCqg4Wwos-nbKs has a slightly longer clip then shown here. #3 and #1 is just incredible pilot skill and keeping one's head. #2 I wouldn't quite consider as an emergency landing as it looked like a perfectly operating helicopter trying to land in seriously adverse conditions. Very different then trying to land with damaged controls and your engine catching fire.

[@maricelazamorano7061]

conspiracies are just great stories

[@mhillvo]

KTLA pilot....no words. Walking away...and he flew the shirt out of that craft to find a safe spot while it was on fire....definitely #1. Love heli's...and their operators. Wow...

[@ronjonson26]

It was only smoke from a hydraulic leak, no fire

[@charlesforeman9438]

That Navy pilot did a fantastic job landing in the heavy swell's of the sea on that ship. Wow

[@andersbechchristensen9627]

It is not an emergency landing. This is 'just' a 'SHOL' landing. These are 'just' another day at the office near Faroe Isl. in spring and fall seasons.

[@bobsullivan5714]

Landing on the helo-pad of that rolling deck was one of the most impressive demonstrations of piloting skill I have ever seen.

[@M.k.benson]

That was actuelly the replacement for the Lynx helicopter - the new danish Sea Hawk and not an emergency landing put a controlled one. They did as a test when they had to choose the new helicopter for the Royal Navy.

[@unapro3]

"Didn't study the helicopter enough" you mistook a Seahawk for a Lynx? buddy you didn't study the helicopter at all.

[@DavidSmith-mk7qo]

I spent 4 years of my life watching Navy pilots do what seemed impossible. Those guys are the best hands down.

[@DavidSmith-mk7qo]

I remember having helis bring our supplies. We didnt have an actual helo deck. So the pilot would fly about 25 ft above the deck until the load was unhooked on deck. The whole time he was flying sideways at 15 knots give or take!!

[@DavidSmith-mk7qo]

Yes I think you are correct. I was on an older Adams class Guided Missle Cruiser USS Sellers. It was decomissioned long ago. It has a nice internet web site, check it out. ID number was DDG 11.

[@Raver-Meister]

#5 could have turned deadly for everyone involved. Tail rotor struck the ground and sent the heli out of torque. Thank goodness for the safety net and quick reaction from the pilot slamming it on the ground. Look at the main rotor and how close it was pitched towards the guy taking cover. As for #1, whenever you see smoke like that coming out of the turbines it's ALWAYS a problem. It already started losing power and the pilot should have engaged auto-rotation procedure immediately. He was probably busy looking at instrumentation and didn't begin auto-rotation until 3:55. Must have been a great feeling coming so close to the ground and realizing you still had enough power to pick a proper landing spot, great work!

[@dannygomez9798]

Bravo to all the pilots in this video

[@Reelmoana]

Unbelievable landings. This pilots deserves a reward. 💙

[@AC-pm7sn]

"SIR. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IS ON THEIR WAY I CALLED THEM." Great job lady. You saved the day.

[@TwoPlusTwoEqualsFive32]

To be fair, it is the only thing she could have done. Atleast she did not do what most people these days would do which is to pull out their smart phone and hit record.

[@spiryn5174]

Fenrir HAHAHAHAHAAHA so sad but true.

[@gavinjones1522]

You could hear the sirens while she was saying that

[@davidhenderson3400]

I bet she was not the only one that called. With all that smoke I bet the 911 switch board lite up like a Christmas tree.

[@mwbgaming28]

@@TwoPlusTwoEqualsFive32 whats wrong with recording? if someone didnt record it, we wouldnt be able to see it

[@Khepramancer]

That military pilot landing on the stern of that ship is a straight boss, but I got to say, the camera man in the next clip, is badass lol. That continuous pan, wow!

[@n0b0dy07]

I wonder why he don't land in the mountains, was far too risky to land where he did

[@hoffy7191]

*I DON'T KNOW* but I think they're at *FRANKLIN AND HIGHLAND*

[@DreStyle]

Who told you that?

[@jereffuse]

u sure lol

[@Wimpoman]

OR... Fountain and Island.

[@trottheblackdog]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@righteousraccoon5078]

totally couldn't tell over the sound of him eating the microphone.

[@Cinemachoicefilms]

That news copter one was no joke, wow. Alot of amazing videos love them and man can't imagine the stress

[@JOgershok]

The pilot of a Bell 206B JetRanger III activated the emergency floating system and made an emergency landing in the water, 10 miles from Sabine pass, Gulf of Mexico, TX. He and two passengers transferred to a life raft and were pickup up by the USCG.

[@cheythompson740]

Dude in the number 5 news chopper did a better parking job than 99% of BMW drivers.

[@guysmalley]

Chey Thompson we know where you live

[@cheythompson740]

Lol don't need to own a BMW to know how badly the drivers park. 😂😂

[@Diatonic5th]

lol! BMW = Break My Windows

OP I resent your initial comment... when I had my BMW I usually managed to park the lines between my car.

[@Dansk55]

I have a neighbor with a bmw. Always driving fast thinking its a porsche lmao

[@OldJoe212]

About 15 minutes out from a firebase in Vietnam, the Huey I was on got hit and started burning. Our pilot made a u-turn and started back. We were losing altitude. I was a grunt just going back out to the boonies. We were just high enough to get over the wire at the end of the runway. The firetrucks were on each side as we were going. Our pilot didn't bother to hover. He just dropped it and we slid in. Me, and 5 other grunt, just took off running. Considering the amount of ammo, frags, claymores, and C4 we were carrying, we didn't want to stick around. Never found out who the pilot was but I hope he made it back to the world in one piece.

[@tessarix]

Every one of these pilots are badasses! Nerves of steel!! Kudos!

[@LOLOVAL-os3pq]

Incredible the pilot of the ASTAR, there is a lot of smoke, and he completely masters his descent, and quietly he lands on tiptoe on the ground, he still does not panic and he opens the panels! ! well done, hats off to the artist!!

[@michaelhaney3388]

Good job Tim.

[@ryanhampson673]

The stuck pedal enstrom was extremely impressive. If you’re a heli pilot you’ll know :)

[@unapro3]

Yeah, I couldn't work out why the guy talking said "he got it down, that's all that matters" I could understand that statement if he fucked it up, but the guy nailed it.

[@michaelfarm]

My first heli flight lesson was in an old Enstrom. I was trying to figure out what was wrong. It was a stuck pedal? Damn! That would suck.

[@michaelfarm]

I guess the tactic in that situation is to maintain forward motion? Hate to say it, but I am fairly certain no one would have walked away had I been at the controls!

[@ryanhampson673]

Well the idea would be if you had a right stuck pedal to roll the throttle off and that would keep you straight so you could autorotate...Left is trickier. You’d roll off slightly, which would increase your left turn at first but the idea is to stall your tail rotor with lower rpms to stop the spin. Left pedal is by far the worse of the two.

[@TimToussaint]

Ryan Hampson No, that’s not the way for left (power) stuck pedal. The guy in the Enstrom messed it up. He was lucky he was in a very sturdy aircraft, and lucky all round. Proper procedure would have been to mix in Collective at the end, which would have arrested his left yaw. And land at that moment.

[@carlosc3460]

lol that MD500 landing on the street by the white suv was like "sup ladies"

[@Da40kOrks]

I was thinking more like "FUCK YA I'M ALIVE!!!"

[@carlosc3460]

lol that too for sure!

[@TonyP9279]

I thought he was going to try and parallel park behind it.

[@MrFister84]

GTA 5 player for sure.

[@jeffreykitchen3041]

Alberto H lol

[@charlesk7687]

2:05 that's not an emergency landing, that's just a typical landing on rough seas.

[@joeypoppyseed]

Maybe it made the list because their left wiper blade malfunctioned

[@charlesk7687]

@AAA seen that evolution done thousands of times. That's standard.

[@cbh148]

This the top #1 emergency narration effort.

[@purplepois0nbf]

number 2 is NOT an emergency landing.. it's the danish navy Practicing landing in bad weather.. youtube: Danish Defence MH-60R Seahawk bad weather landing

[@laghetto5815]

Yes

[@henrikcarlsen1881]

And that's probably a pilot missing the old Lynx.

[@jamesrobinson5672]

Why is there no R.A.S.T. probe. I believe the MH60R is R.A.S.T. capable?

[@KJK9029]

James Robinson I don’t know what a R.A.S.T probe is but maybe they just didn’t need or want it for training?

[@user-Bryster87]

That is a Romeo. The Danish opted out from outfitting it with the RAST system. They have their own recovery system. Source: me... I work on them

[@scottlambert2949]

These pilots are very brave and I commend them on job well done 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@bigdog1476]

#5 WAS AMAZZING!!

[@annettewilliams1986]

KUDOS. To these great pilots...thats training to KEEP CALM and THINK ...hats off to all pilots and their training coaches.....Our military men and women too.....

[@daapdary]

In the early 1960s, my dad survived a crash landing of a CH-47 Chinook in the US Army, 101st Airborne. It couldn't hover due to mechanical failure, so the pilot had to glide down like a plane into a corn field. My dad still regrets not shaking the pilot's hand for saving all their lives. Helicopter crash survivors...that's a small club, isn't it?

[@dominicwilliamson7912]

Id rather crash in a plane than a helicopter. Dad is lucky.

[@equation1321]

4:55 look how the cameraman stopped at the hot girls on the billboard for a second lol

[@asbjrnandersen768]

haha, righ! he zoomed out.

[@equation1321]

Asbjørn Andersen yea lol

[@jasmijnariel]

Cause of the smoke blocked the view

[@DroneCowboy.59]

Keep up with the videos. Great Work a Canadian Tums Up.! 1

[@Flightsworldwidevideos]

Great video!!

[@4dirt2racer0]

haaahaha that guy threw his arms up when he got off that deathtrap lmao :p that was fn hilarious

[@johnmcclain5972]

That first one. Did anyone see the guy on the pad? He was flat for part of it. Talk about luck

[@BudHound420]

A few from the top 5 in my opinion were not emergency landings. Not when everything is ok until the tail rotor hits while landing. That is just an accident while landing not an emergency landing. You need to be coming in already in trouble with an emergency to be a emergency landing.

[@oscaraguirre602]

Hi good morning thanks by share this video,,, congrautlations for the pilots,,, incredible men,,, Amazing hability,,, and experience to have the control in this kind of aircraft,,, greetings for the people who made posible this video, and to for the fans,,, have a good time and so long,,your friend Oscar de Playa del Carmen Q R México,,,

[@SirFloofy001]

#1 rule in news reporting. Don't become the news.

[@caveman357]

Fountian and highland

[@dallasonfire604]

Franklin and highland

[@Alantheleopard]

... unless you are over Hollywood. No better spot to have an incident and then, predictably, make a movie or at least a scene in a movie or TV series about that, no matter if they already did it before.

[@Alantheleopard]

@Hugh Mongus You are imagining way too many things, I'm afraid. First, I am afraid that it is naïve believing that you know well enough a stranger you are in contact with for the first time so as to judge him right out of the blue with so much self-confidence. Make well sure first and know that people well before making any judgements. That said, I refuse to become popular, certainly (another thing is that people take my comments wrong and make me popular against my own will, but that's not my problem). Camera-suckers (what you call "selfish individualists") are those who suffer from an over-proportioned ego and want to make it public and thus become famous, and that's definitely NOT my style, since as I said before I prefer to stay in the shadows. In other words, it´s not my fault if some over-interpret my comments distorting reality (and making a Hollywood movie out of my life). Having some imagination is good, but keeping it well under control is even better. And then that part you mentioned on an accident and killing people...It impacted me for what it literally means (needless to use any bit of imagination): "If at least you had mentioned that the best reason why the best place to have an accident was over hollywood was because you might be lucky and kill a bunch of Jews while falling.You might've had my thumbs up". Were you really conscious of what you were typing then? I hope that you were, because it sounded brutal to me. Not even as a joke would it be passable (and nope, I am not a jew). Be careful with freedom of speech, because it has its limits of tolerance. That all said, I am concentrating on the incident itself, which was certainly risky enough so as to make it yet worse. And now tell me: isn't it true that at times Hollywood film directors become crazy at shocking moments in real life and want to make their own version in a movie? That's undeniable, and there are hundreds of examples about it (natural disasters, exaggerated dangerous animals like crocodiles, anacondas and so on, attacks on civilians like terrorist attacks, wars and lesser incidents). But don't deviate any more and concentrate on the video itself.

[@Alantheleopard]

@Hugh Mongus Freedom of speech DOES have its limits. Have you heard of verbal aggression, or simply insulting? We're in a world were freedom of speech is been left too much loose and uncontrolled. "I won't give a shit about it". Wildcard phrase for those who have no strong argument against to show.

[@ascherlafayette8572]

7:45 me landing everybody in arms "Welp We're alive . . ."

[@valkosipulipatonki515]

Wait you play pubg?

[@colenicolas7265]

Wdez he meant arma

[@eddiemorrone870]

The first one was definitely in a helicopter disaster compilation. The helicopter nearly hit the crewman lying on the ground in the background.

[@jaredj631]

The background music seems MASH inspired. I just keep thinking of that bubble top medivac chopper from the opening.

[@born2late568]

You made number 3, Art!!!!

[@mrdev9843]

good coverage of the news helicopter that had engine fire/smoke cheers

[@footewalker6094]

7:32 That is a Mh-53 belonging to the USMC, the largest in their fleet of helicopters. Amazing.

[@davidfripp5171]

Great pilot

[@lorenzodunn3226]

Excellent film footage and sound.

[@thishandleisavailable2023]

6:09 - "Sir... you can't park there" 😆

[@ButterfaceGMusicSlump]

dude number 3 is insane!

[@JC130676]

LOL @ 8:25. Imagine you're the driver of the dark car, on your way to work: Boss: What excuse have you got for being late this time? You: It wasn't my fault. You see, there was this helicopter on the highway... Boss: Forget I asked, you're fired.

[@helicopterlessonsin10minut10]

Great job with that fixed tail rotor pitch landing! To make the landing as safe as possible with a fixed left pedal you should 1) start a steep approach angle with 2) a high power setting and 3) reduce the throttle as necessary to maintain heading control.

[@genericeric0102]

Impressive, I've always liked helicopters

[@XLexieXBabyX]

What do you mean "here's some that diden't quite make the list"? if it's an emergency landing, then it's a damn emergency landing!!! make a top 10 if you know there's some that diden't make the list :D hehe but awesome video (i feel horrible for that Super Stallion) hope it's nothing too severe

[@CurvySquare552]

"And here are some that didn't quite make the list" *proceeds to show's landings of a much higher skill*

[@ghall1964]

A ton of good luck ,and a lot of skill

[@ilikerainandburger]

tremendous pilot skill

[@snakefinger]

Number 3 I love you.

[@vinsavi]

That is news chopper pilot is heroic!!

[@gamelover195]

Happy to see all are safe

[@grant575mixmaster]

7:36 "there's gotta be something wrong" nah lady he's just getting lunch

[@seansamurai1981]

Number 2 wasnt an emergency landing, that was a standard rough weather landing at sea. Saw plenty of those during my career.

[@courtneysha8004]

What did you do during your career? I'm interested to know. I want to work on a boat at sea.

[@seansamurai1981]

@@courtneysha8004 marine engineer but the RN shares some tasks through the ships company. A portion was trained and rostered to work on the flight deck for flight ops. Mainly you would go and tie down the cab after landing if it was staying at alert status (alert 3 0, alert 1 5, alert 5 it stayed unstruck)

[@courtneysha8004]

RN like a nurse? Or something else?

[@seansamurai1981]

@@courtneysha8004 royal navy

[@seansamurai1981]

@Duffelbag Drag 🤣🤣

[@NomadUniverse]

What was that intersection? I didnt quite catch it...Lincoln and Highman?

[@mikegallant811]

Franklin and Highland

[@infantryman116]

@ABCD ABCD chicken and biscuits

[@LeoMaxBR]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@drew65sep]

That was one hell of a pilot that landed aft on that ship in such heavy seas with the deck pitching up and down like that. Insane...

[@zombiepictures]

Nice content !

[@FortniteDad39]

Fountain and Highland, Fountain and Highland... FRANKLIN and Highland, Franklin and Highland....wooooooooo Franklin and Highland, Franklin and Highland...

[@Kyle17206]

Crazy Camo Dad his mic actually pissed me off

[@circomnia9984]

I'm glad the clips that didn't make it into the video, was shown at the end.

[@benhudman9204]

I like the Jet Ranger Easter basket.

[@siarsMM]

Very nice musik

[@warblood88]

7:41 landing without engine? Amazing

[@NetAndyCz]

Number 3 is awesome.

[@cliffcox7643]

Pilot: Dan is there a problem? DAN KTLA: No, there is no problem now.

[@trueblue533]

These are awesome! I love these videos!

[@johnedwards1685]

Thank Heaven the crews in those water landings were saved by the impeccable skills of their pilot. The sight of those aircraft abandoned on the open water is heartbreaking though, I expect there was no saving them.

[@Mgl1206]

John Edwards just get a tugboat, (on a serious note it would have been retrieved or sunk they can’t just let it drift it’s a hazard)

[@Nderak]

I will say that landing on a moving ship is always more amazing than landing in a parking lot because your engine is on fire.

[@outtabubblegum7034]

the red one was beautiful

[@imhappyandyou.4003]

That Channel 5 chopper really wanted to be the story and not report the story lol. Not bad landing for an emergency. NERVES OF STEEL AND BALLS IS THE ONLY THING I CAN SAY FOR HELICOPTER PILOTS.

[@VINTERIUM..EXPLORIUM.1]

Fly copter fly!!!

[@rafalemarine5063]

BRAVO !!!!

[@lksinternational3358]

Excellent

[@conspiraciesarejustgreatst2059]

Can't believe that black chopper was able to keep it's blades going while there's that much smoke shooting out. U would think the engine would "seize" or just shut down. Amazing skills by the pilot

[@batvette]

conspiracies are just great stories not sure but i believe in turbine ac the engine not hardc connected to the rotors the transmission has a buffer. Allows for auto rotate with engine fail.

[@joshwithe7468]

From the smoke while flying vs the absence of smoke after shut down, I would guess an oil line sprung a leak, spraying onto the hot engine or exhaust.

[@slimjim5568]

#2 parking lot boss: don't come in to work today. helicopter on fire tomorrow LOL

[@peterbeck-rasmussen8514]

That Seahawk landing on the helideck of the Royal Danish Navy vessel was NO emergence landing - that was just a "routine" rough weather landing, which is not so unusual in the North Atlantic.

[@publickdefendrr8101]

If they could attach ropes to the helos landing on ships, I wonder if they could simply reel them them in, or reel them down from the ship to the Helicopter Pad??

[@juancarloslopezpadilla736]

🤭Aplausos 👏 👏👏 unreal..great job 👏👏👏 ☺️.!!!!

[@XB10001]

Could a helicopter pilot explain #3? It seems a very dangerous maneuver.

[@ladyelainefairchilde4632]

Follow the smoke awesome saves.

[@esstreem782]

NICE.

[@grantweston5640]

Really early for once I’m 1st I love the videos all so far have been really good thank you for entertaining me

[@tomblack4061]

1st and 2nd videos were pilot error, obviously. Hit the Tail Rotor and that causes an immediate loss of yaw control. They both just got lucky the planted the bird as quickly as they could. The others are loss of engine(s) and auto-rotation to the ground. Excellently executed by each pilot.

[@russ117044]

Nice TD background music!

[@ProlMLGJoe]

It's a miracle No. 3 managed to minimize casualties.

[@redpalace2494]

I love happy endings.

[@ThatGuysProject]

3:20, not an emergency landing at all, that's every day for most naval aviatiors

[@DavidSmith-mk7qo]

Got that right!!! Good observation.

[@randssl]

Yup. Got hundreds of those

[@Ironwulf2000]

Depends if they were running severely low on fuel.

[@spiral83]

it was danish navy in the baltic sea if i remember correctly, and indeed not emergency at all, just landing in rough seas in this part of the world.

[@lmyt1505]

its a routine landing

[@sarjim4381]

The KTLA helicopter emergency landing happened all the way back in 2012. I know some of your videos aren't very recent, but this is is not only old, it has been youtube dozens of times.

[@ladyelainefairchilde4632]

All Professionals. Well done ❤️

[@nodave77]

3 and 2 were far more difficult than the news guy. Dramatic for sure, but he just needed to find a spot to land. The other 2 required some sick piloting skills.

[@michaelhaney3388]

Tim Lynn is the pilot for sky5. Very skilled pilot. and very lucky to find a spot.

[@konewone361]

And I think he was calmer than the one reporting it too.

[@michaelhaney3388]

@@konewone361 That was Stu Mundel of kcbs tv. Now with fox11 LA. Tim retired 3 years ago.

[@Hey_its_Koda]

Awesome pilots.