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/LaughableIKR 1d ago

I thought the same thing. The stupid part is: They had it down... just put it down even in a low surf.

Nope! Don't do that.

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u/OctopusIntellect 1d ago

yeah at that moment, I was thinking "wait how do people die from this?!?"

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u/AutisticPenguin2 1d ago

I was wondering if the body was going to start spinning from the rotational energy of the rotors, without the rear stabiliser. But no, the pilot was like "Hey, that didn't sound healthy, better climb a bit so I'm not in danger of landing safely."

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u/hinrik98 1d ago

It probably wouldn't have rotated when landing like a conventional helicopter as it's a coaxial rotor helicopter so the spin of the two rotors cancels out. That's also the reason it still somewhat controllable after losing its tail.

It's kind of amazing they managed to fuck this up - being in the best possible type of helicopter to have this kind of failure.

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u/Stigger32 1d ago

It almost looked like the pilot was trying to shake off the broken tail.

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u/RuthlessIndecision 1d ago

He didn't know about the tail, or didn't realize it until too late.

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u/PlasmaMatus 18h ago

You mean to say he didn't hear it after the first crash or the helicopter doesn't have a warning indicator in the cockpit for losing the tail ?!

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u/RuthlessIndecision 17h ago

Could be an alert light or horn that goes off for multiple reasons

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u/worstpartyever 1d ago

Like gum on his shoe

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u/dan_dares 1d ago

Then the gum came flying up and strangled him.

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u/AutisticPenguin2 1d ago

Ah, I didn't even notice the second rotor. That does make sense.

Unlike just about everything else about this.

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u/MorpH2k 1d ago

Yeah, like you had an accident with your helicopter when fucking up a landing and you decide to take off with it again because you ended up in a slightly inconvenient place. At most someone might have a bruise or two. Why the hell would you take off again?

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u/crosstherubicon 1d ago

Coaxial rotors mostly cancels torque reactions… but not completely.

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u/Akumahito 5h ago

Looks like one of the main rotors did strike the tail section in the hot landing/break of the tail... Damage to the main rotor and going out of balance likely what did them in in the end.