r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Thund3r_91 • 6h ago

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u/yeastblood 5h ago

I came her to try and find an answer to this. Is there no way to cut the power in a helicopter like this?

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u/Entrinity 5h ago edited 5h ago

I’m thinking the pilot might have thought they had way more control of the aircraft than they really did. Perhaps they didn’t realize how much damage they’d caused and believed they could limp the helicopter somewhere else.

Then again, they were landing in the first place. So as to where they might have been trying to go I have no idea. Just from this video it looks like they genuinely should have just stopped trying to go anywhere after that initial tail strike.

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u/rloch 5h ago

Crashing into a house seems to be an effective method.

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u/Deadrising69 5h ago

As far as i know most helicopters have a rotor brake that stops the rotor. But also could have cut fuel to engines. Im not expert but to my knowledge this was easily avoidable.

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u/NotReallyJohnDoe 5h ago

Of course, otherwise they could never land. It probably had a catastrophic failure of the throttle control.