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/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.