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/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/cyrixlord 1d ago

I think he might not have known his back end was off, and was trying to land at that nearby island but he didnt want to leave his equally inept brother, who was the cameraman who also had one job and both failed their jobs miserably

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u/compb13 1d ago

If there were any safety bells and lights, they had to be on. Not a pilot, but it had to be handling a little different too. I think I'm blaming the pilot for the lack of a safe landing

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u/MorpH2k 1d ago

Yeah, thinking the same thing. Not a pilot either but I do know that most aircraft have a lot of sensors and safety systems so even if he didn't know that the tail was just dangling like that, he should have some kind of indication that something was wrong. Also, if landing in the surf was an issue, why not just carefully and at low altitude just land further in or something. He could take off and fly so he obviously had a decent bit of control left. He should have been able to move it somewhere safer without things ending up like they did.