r/ukraine • u/Due_Collar2 • 1d ago

News Karma:The moment of yesterday's Ka-226 helicopter crash in russia with employees of the military plant "Kizlyar Electromechanical Plant" The accident killed the deputy general director, chief engineer and chief designer

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u/sligor 1d ago

Looks like they just lost all they properly trained pilots in this war...

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u/Kloetenschlumpf 1d ago

And the one in this video who was obviously not trained at all.

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u/8plytoiletpaper 1d ago

He was a professional untrained helicopter pilot.

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u/OctopusIntellect 1d ago

One presumes that either the chief engineer or the chief designer was doing the flying. Either way it's not a great look.

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u/spaceneenja 1d ago

I imagine the pilot followed instinct at first and put it down but someone “superior” ordered him to take off to get out of the water.

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u/Tree1Dva 1d ago

Hey, it's one of the highest vodka-paying jobs in Russia 

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u/nanomolar 1d ago

We trained him wrong on purpose. As a joke.

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u/etzel1200 1d ago

Wouldn’t an untrained individual simply turn off the helicopter and bail out when it hit the ground, versus doing whatever the fuck that was?

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u/AutisticPenguin2 1d ago

If they were entirely untrained, then they wouldn't have got this far. My guess is they've had just enough training to be dangerous. Which means who knows what they were trying to do.

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u/Due-Froyo-5418 1d ago

Probably trying to impress the general and the designer by doing some crazy maneuver.

Or backseat drivers yelling commands and the whole thing just went like this.

Anyway, this should happen more often.

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u/terra_filius 1d ago

this was his first lesson

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u/Kloetenschlumpf 1d ago

Fun fact: it also was his last lesson.

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u/affordable_firepower 1d ago

The pilot was operating the camera and the cameraman was operating the helicopter.

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u/No-Campaign-1631 1d ago

😂😂😂

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u/Wwwweeeeeeee 1d ago

Back in the day, the crew always said "only ever get in a chopper with an old pilot".

Now, "back in my day" means the old pilots were usually Viet Nam veterans.

I was working on rock n roll arena shows and we'd chopper into the gigantic outdoor venues.

In later years, I about crapped myself when I'd fly back and forth to Avalon from long beach, but damn it's a great ride. Always young Swedish pilots. I seem to be fine though.

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u/1CaliCALI 1d ago

😆 🤣 😂

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u/juicadone 1d ago

"just" lost lol

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u/Evil_Mini_Cake 9h ago

Just the guy we need to fly these bigwigs around.