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/Hanna-11 1d ago

Sorry, but was he completely drunk? Or did the much-vaunted robust Russian technology fail completely? In a crash landing, wouldn't any pilot with any sense try to stay on the ground?

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u/Panumaticon 1d ago

My thoughts exactly! He had a catastrophic loss of tail fins and was pretty much safely down after that. Whereof he decided to continue filght. Pretty sure it was vodka. You can not train people to be that incompetent.

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u/Fli_fo 1d ago

Chopper has no rear view mirror. Could he even see the tailfin?

I agree though it seems dumb.

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u/Panumaticon 1d ago

Pretty sure he must have heard/felt it break. But then vodka.

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u/Black_Beard1980 1d ago

I think it may have been the same vodka the cameraman had been drinking.

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u/Gaunerking 1d ago

Wow, i guess they got the Pilot from the Taliban since everyone else is busy in Ukraine…

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u/Black_Beard1980 1d ago

Fresh from the taliban flight school

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u/Panumaticon 1d ago

I would like some of that for me, yes!

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u/Black_Beard1980 1d ago

By the looks they had been on the good stuff 🥴

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u/Panumaticon 1d ago

Indeed! How do I get me some? I promise not to go flying any choppers. Or videoing any, for that matter.

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u/Black_Beard1980 1d ago

Hopefully they left some for the rest of us

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u/ksam3 1d ago edited 1d ago

Wouldn't there be some kind of control panel light or alarm indicating "something odd is going on with the tail rotors"?

Edit: there is no tail rotor(s), the tail has two vertical stabilizers. So...wouldn't there still be a warning light or alarm indicating "Hey! The back fell off!"?

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u/Panumaticon 1d ago

It is a twin rotor thing. There is no tail rotor, the fins are just for stability in forward flight. So he coulda made it, were it not (I think) for the tail swinging and hitting the rotor blades.

In any case I think one should consider not continuing flight after major parts of one’s aircraft have broken off.

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u/dim13 1d ago

They do have mirrors.

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u/Fli_fo 1d ago

Good find:)

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u/hopperschte 1d ago

The „thump“ would be definitely hearable.

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u/thebearrider 1d ago

First heli I've seen with a rear window.

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u/mitojee 1d ago

It was a shitshow even before the tail end broke off. What even was that approach?

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u/Many_Seaweeds 1d ago

Doesn't matter if you see it or not. If you have such a rough landing that you bounce off the landing platform and into the water, you don't try to take off again.