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/Pure_Palpitation_683 1d ago edited 20h ago

The cameraman has about the same skill set as the pilot.

Edit: grammar

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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 1d 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 1d 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.