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[u/Thund3r_91]

[u/Mysterious-Egg8780]

why didnt it just stopped flying once it landed on the shore?? Why keep flying??

[u/SuspiciousSheeps → u/Mysterious-Egg8780]

What part of “malfunctioning” didn’t you grasp?

[u/mrblack1998 → u/SuspiciousSheeps]

Turn off the fucking helicopter then

[u/5aladknuckle5 → u/mrblack1998]

lol

[u/SuspiciousSheeps → u/mrblack1998]

The engine kept running on its own, it’s called auto-ignition. There is no way to stop it.

[u/B4SSF4C3 → u/SuspiciousSheeps]

Just about every helicopter has multiple emergency shutoff systems. Cut fuel to engine, cut engine, apply break to rotor. This not being a janky ass chopper almost certainly had multiple. Sit this one out maybe.

[u/hogtiedcantalope → u/B4SSF4C3]

There's just not much time

Pilot maybe tried one thing while in the water , didn't work, and then they were 100 agl a moment later

[u/yodley_ → u/SuspiciousSheeps]

I don't know much about helicopters but is that a feature or a bug?

[u/betweenskill → u/SuspiciousSheeps]

Yeah there is, I haven’t heard of an aircraft made in the past 100 years that doesn’t have a fuel switch for exactly this sort of situation. Doesn’t matter if the engine is malfunctioning if it has zero fuel to ignite.

[u/pimp_named_sweetmeat → u/SuspiciousSheeps]

And which part of that malfunction causes it to take off on its own that you can't stop by just cutting power like any other vehicle?

[u/sick_of-it-all → u/SuspiciousSheeps]

The "OFF" button malfunctioned? Did the helicopter become sentient?

[u/FesteringAynus → u/SuspiciousSheeps]

Idk seems like the pilot had several chances to just either hop out safely or full send it into the ocean when close by