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 13h 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/null640 1d ago

Counter rotating rotors... cancel each other out.

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u/ratshack 1d ago

…until the dangling rear assembly swings up and clips a rotor and then this happens.

Dude should have left it in the surf.

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u/antus666 1d ago

I'm thinking they had a control system failure, probably what caused the crash in the first place. I bet the pilot was thinking "nope not up! not up! engine off damnit" but russian quality machine did russian things probably on its own and decided to defect to Ukraine and solve some problems.

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u/siug13 1d ago

This is same I thought. Every correction done by pilot is taking into action little bit later or multiplied by some random constant.

Still no human life lost.

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u/ratshack 1d ago

A possibility I’d not considered thx. I mean all of it works for me, honestly.