The future of flying
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Wing strikingly brave and stunning!
At what point are insurance companies going to start noticing all this bravery?
The insurance companies are never going to notice, it would almost be like them noticing that the jabbed are more likely to die. Wake me up when they will issue discounts for the purebloods!
Considering men still pay the similar rates of health insurance as women, even though women use 80% of the health care, I'd say the insurance companies will never notice.
One of these days we'll hear a smoke detector chirp inside the cockpit. And none of us will be surprised.
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American Airlines flight carrying US lawmakers ‘bumped’ by second plane on tarmac in DC
Several U.S. lawmakers on Thursday said a plane clipped their aircraft while awaiting takeoff at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Thursday.
www.foxnews.com
Two parts splashed down. Tail rotor split off? Looks like the video taken from the ground showed a body sans part of the tail.
It was a family with three children and the pilot. Six people.
God bless.
Helicopter crash in Hudson River kills all 6 aboard
Six people died when a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River Thursday afternoon. Officials said the dead included a family from Spain as well as the pilot.
www.cbsnews.com
This is sad. An entire family members from Spain were killed in the helicopter crash.
This is sad. An entire family members from Spain were killed in the helicopter crash.
The rotor blade came off and the chopper dropped like a stone. Usually in case of engine shutdown the rotors will slow down the fall to the point where the passengers could survive the crash, not the case here. Bad mechanical failure, either poor maintenance or a pretty small chance of foul play, if someone wanted the Spanish CEO dead.
My first thought was foul play could be in place but didn't want to post out of respect for the victims but that looked more like a small bomb or whatever on that chopper, rotor blades don't just "come off" unless there was some insane maintenance negligence. Like you said even if an engine fails you will still have lift from the rotor blades and you can glide the thing down quickly in autorotation.
The crash looked very unnatural. RIP, what a waste.
What appears to be complete main rotor separation is leading to mast bumping as a possible cause: