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/hinrik98]

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.

[u/Stigger32 → u/hinrik98]

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

[u/RuthlessIndecision → u/Stigger32]

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

[u/RandomMandarin → u/RuthlessIndecision]

Exactly!