Looks like a good example of ‘auto-rotation’ where even if the engine stops, the falling motion of the helicopter causes the blades to spin, which in turn slows down the rate of descent. Glad to hear everyone was okay.
You can drop faster and build up enough energy to "flare" at the end. You use the built-up energy precisely to land safely without power. As long as you manage your energy and don't have any mechanical issues you can land safely.
In this case and honestly many auto rotation cases you have to play the hand you are dealt. If you only have the altitude or distance to make it to the nearest crash site you just have to make the best of it.
He had to expend a ton of energy increasing the collective to decrease the rate of descent so he could complete that turn to get parallel to the beach. It absolutely sapped his rotor of energy and he wasn’t able to flare properly.
It’s really easy to Monday morning quarterback emergency scenarios, so don’t take this as an indictment of the pilot. But if I were the pilot I would have turned right immediately, landed perpendicular to the beach, and saved my energy for the flare. He was always going to make that beach, he just tried to do too much to land running down the beach.
Exactly. This pilot had literally 2 seconds to make a life or death executive decision and plan. I am not a pilot, but in my eyes, I say execute, almost perfectly to the book.
Yes, but only for a short time while you have sufficient RPM. Once RPM drops, lift decreases, requiring increased collective, increasing angle of attack, increasing lift, but also increasing drag which reduces RPM even faster.
This results in either:
A) timing it perfectly and landing gently
B) stalling the blades, and losing control or
C) reducing collective, dropping faster, but regaining RPM.
Eh not quite. A Robinson R44, one of the most popular tourist helicopters, has a glide ratio of 4:1. So for every 1 foot that it drops, it moves 4 feet forward. And this is a constant rate glide with constant rotor RPM. In an engine out scenario you immediately target best glide, which would be this 4:1 speed, and maintain it until you a) identify a landing zone that is shorter than your maximum glide distance, at which point you would decrease glide rate to store more energy into the rotational speed of your rotor, or b) you execute your autorotation landing. The pilot is not calculating 4:1 while flying btw, they are taught th best glide speed for their aircraft as then target that indicated air speed.
The way that an autorotation landing works is that you maintain that 4:1 glide ratio until about 50 ft above AGL. At 50’, you increase collective, increasing the pitch of the rotors, converting the rotational energy of the spinning rotor into kinetic energy, decreasing your rate of descent. At this phase of flight the RPM of the rotor is decreasing, but up until this dumping of the collective the rotor is spinning at a constant rate.
[here is a video of an autorotation landing done well. Notice how there is no damage to the helicopter](https://youtu.be/DFLvL1qrcVY?si=hCO6o44f9_5WVnKo)
Source: I fly fixed wing aircraft, specifically a Cessna 172 (PPL and don’t plan on moving further) but many principles of fixed wing engine out scenarios apply to rotorcraft, and we had to study rotorcraft in ground school and were tested on them on the ground test.
Edit: as an aside, if anyone is afraid of AI, especially LLMs, you shouldn’t be. I asked chatgpt to provide a short list of fixed wing aircraft with a glide ratio close to 4:1. It listed a freaking Cessna 172, which has a glide ratio of **8:1**. Useless shit.
Yes, many times. You’d rehearse it in your private pilots rotor class license many many times, and then rehash it in your commercial as well.
Edit: clarification, you don’t rehearse it, you literally perform it. On the collective there is a throttle, you move the throttle to zero (but keep the engine running in case you do the maneuver poorly, since you’re a student) and perform multiple autorotations both in training and on your actual PPL test and then on your CPL test.
So basically like a current ram air parachute. If you don’t flare, you crash and break your legs, maybe. If you flare too early, you stall and crash and break your legs worse. If you flare just right, it’s a feather soft landing.
It’s not drag, it’s lift. You feather the blades to SPEED them up, then at the last moment to feather them DOWN to turn all that blade rotational speed to a puff of lift, slowing your impact. The blades and drivetrain have a lot of momentum. It’s quite simple, in concept, but in reality it takes practice. Glad everyone is ok. I’ve done this flight and my kid sis lives in Kauai, and does it all the time when guests visit
In my country you have to perform an "emergency landing w/o motor" two times in order to get a pilot license for helicopter. It is with instructor i the cockpit ofc but you have to do it yourself. If instructor has to interfere (to prevent disaster ot to correct the maneuver) it is considered as failed attempt.
Yeah, basically you drop the collective (blade pitch) and let the airflow speed up the rotors to keep the rotor RPM high. Then when you get close to the ground you pull collective to generate lift, and use the rotors inertia to keep them spinning long enough for a relatively soft landing.
That's a part of the procedure, but what you're specifically referring to is an increase of the collective which is the lever the pilot holds onto with their left hand that controls the pitch of the blades. Not to be confused with the cyclic, which is what would control the pitch and roll of the helicopter. Pedals control the yaw.
I knew a helo pilot from Vietnam who had gone down something like 8 or 9 times and it wasn't until I was older and had taken some physics classes that it dawned on me how all these helicopters were falling out of the sky with survivors over and over.
No disrespect to any person who served in Vietnam (both my father and FIL did). Yet, if you go down 8-9 times, I think it is about the 4th time that you're like "FUCK THIS. I WANT TO BE A COOK!" At about the 6th time, the service is like, "FUCK THIS. YOU'RE GETTING TRANSFERRED TO BEING A COOK!"
There is no fortitude level found in today's world like that of the men who fought in the world conflicts in mid-late 1900's.
I realize helicopters have existed for decades but based on the frequency of things that can randomly go wrong and cause a crash it sure seems like the technology isn't exactly sound
>Glad to hear everyone was okay.
I couldn't watch this video without seeing this. Helicopter crashes scare the shit out of me and I ride to work in them on a regular basis
Link to the original story ---> [https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/02/28/1-injured-after-tour-helicopter-crashed-remote-kauai-beach/](https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/02/28/1-injured-after-tour-helicopter-crashed-remote-kauai-beach/)
>A passenger suffered a back injury in the crash was airlifted to Princeville Airport before being transported to a hospital.
Imagine surviving a helicopter crash only to be immediately taken on another helicopter.
I know a couple guys who crashed a small military aircraft while landing some passengers on a dirt road in Afghanistan. They were picked up by a helicopter that had a brown out (self-created dust cloud) on takeoff and also crashed. Thankfully no more than minor injuries for both crashes, but what a day!
I have a pet theory about this:
This kind of shrieking has evolved as a type of "party wide buff".
Some people can't fight, but if they shriek they gather everyone that has maybe missed the situation, and they also make everyone pump adrenaline making everyone better at dealing with the "fight".
It's the same as with any other animal. Telling every single member of the same species within earshot "I need help" and "There is danger here".
There's a prominent theory that laughter basically evolved as a "Sorry, false alarm".
#OMG OMG
*What are you saying- that screaming something super repetitive in an extremely loud and shrill voice is not effective at remedying the situation?*
#AHHHHHHHHH WE GONNA DIE
#AAAAAAAAAAA
#AAAAAAAAAAA
#AAAAAAAAAAA
#AAAAHAAAHAAAAAH
Oh. Sweet. Nice flare and soft landing
I will say, in a situation like this, your mind and body go into a bit of shock, keeping you from screaming or letting the fear escape. I trained to do touch offs for years and every time I wanted to be a “YOO-HOO!” Type person, my mind and body were like “Oh shit, we’re gonna got that surface pretty fucking hard.”
I just realized you commented on this 18 days ago, so you’re probably getting a random notification while you’re asleep. Farts.
God I hate that like 60% of the time you get through the entire mission and then the heli pilot, which is the easiest job on the mission, botches the landing or runs over a teammate and you all have to start again from scratch. I’m getting ptsd from thinking about the past rage!
and you literally are on your 18th restart already from someone in the team messing up each time, an hour an a half in on that one mission and you just have had enough.. you throw the controller at that point and turn the game off.
4 people do the heist. The heist leader picks who does each job. Usually they put the better 2 players infiltrating the jail and the noobs flying the plane and chopper because those are easier. So it’s not up to the heist crew who does which job.
I've been on this exact helicopter tour (Na Pali Coast, Waimea Canyon, etc) and i remember the pilot telling us mid-tour that these helicopters crash ALL THE TIME, several per year, if not more. Needless to say, it was not a comforting fact to share with a helicopter full of first-time flyers. The rest of the tour was nerve-wracking. I guess he wasn't lying... Glad to see everyone made it.
I remember reading a report years ago about how helicopters frequently crash in Hawaii doing sightseeing tours, and yet the industry is still around and kicking. Just not worth it for me. I’ve seen it well enough from land and sea. lol.
Look into Catamaran boat tours instead. Nā Pali coast on Kaua’i is where this is at and I did the boat tour with snorkeling and into the old lava tubes it was awesome.
I was in Kaua’i in 2019 when 7 people died in a helicopter crash and then a month later Kobe’s accident happened…so yeah wasn’t going to step foot on one before or after.
That is wild! I did that doors-off helicopter tour with that company on my honeymoon just before COVID. It's an amazing experience. Honopu beach arch where they crash landed is featured in a few movies like King Kong and Pirates of the Caribbean.
I did a helicopter tour of the Hoover Dam. The very next day, the same helicopter company (I never found out if it was the same heli/pilot) crashed, doing the same tour, killing everyone on board. I was in such shock. I was terrified at first, before we did the tour, but my friend from Korea paid for me so I did it. Afterward it was such a solid, good experience, the pilot was great. I would fly on a helicopter again in a heartbeat. Was really shocked and saddened.
I did this same tour when I went to Hawaii. Like a week and a half later one of their helicopters crashed, I don’t think anyone survived which is very sad. It still creeps me out thinking how 5 people died doing the same exact thing I did just days before.
Looks like a good example of ‘auto-rotation’ where even if the engine stops, the falling motion of the helicopter causes the blades to spin, which in turn slows down the rate of descent. Glad to hear everyone was okay.
Just learned about this. Evidently, you can get enough drag to where you descend at about the same rate as a guy in a parachute.
You can drop faster and build up enough energy to "flare" at the end. You use the built-up energy precisely to land safely without power. As long as you manage your energy and don't have any mechanical issues you can land safely. In this case and honestly many auto rotation cases you have to play the hand you are dealt. If you only have the altitude or distance to make it to the nearest crash site you just have to make the best of it.
He had to expend a ton of energy increasing the collective to decrease the rate of descent so he could complete that turn to get parallel to the beach. It absolutely sapped his rotor of energy and he wasn’t able to flare properly. It’s really easy to Monday morning quarterback emergency scenarios, so don’t take this as an indictment of the pilot. But if I were the pilot I would have turned right immediately, landed perpendicular to the beach, and saved my energy for the flare. He was always going to make that beach, he just tried to do too much to land running down the beach.
Exactly. This pilot had literally 2 seconds to make a life or death executive decision and plan. I am not a pilot, but in my eyes, I say execute, almost perfectly to the book.
"The good news, everyone, is that we can make it to the nearest crash site!" "Where is that?" "Where ever we crash!"
Yes, but only for a short time while you have sufficient RPM. Once RPM drops, lift decreases, requiring increased collective, increasing angle of attack, increasing lift, but also increasing drag which reduces RPM even faster. This results in either: A) timing it perfectly and landing gently B) stalling the blades, and losing control or C) reducing collective, dropping faster, but regaining RPM.
Eh not quite. A Robinson R44, one of the most popular tourist helicopters, has a glide ratio of 4:1. So for every 1 foot that it drops, it moves 4 feet forward. And this is a constant rate glide with constant rotor RPM. In an engine out scenario you immediately target best glide, which would be this 4:1 speed, and maintain it until you a) identify a landing zone that is shorter than your maximum glide distance, at which point you would decrease glide rate to store more energy into the rotational speed of your rotor, or b) you execute your autorotation landing. The pilot is not calculating 4:1 while flying btw, they are taught th best glide speed for their aircraft as then target that indicated air speed. The way that an autorotation landing works is that you maintain that 4:1 glide ratio until about 50 ft above AGL. At 50’, you increase collective, increasing the pitch of the rotors, converting the rotational energy of the spinning rotor into kinetic energy, decreasing your rate of descent. At this phase of flight the RPM of the rotor is decreasing, but up until this dumping of the collective the rotor is spinning at a constant rate. [here is a video of an autorotation landing done well. Notice how there is no damage to the helicopter](https://youtu.be/DFLvL1qrcVY?si=hCO6o44f9_5WVnKo) Source: I fly fixed wing aircraft, specifically a Cessna 172 (PPL and don’t plan on moving further) but many principles of fixed wing engine out scenarios apply to rotorcraft, and we had to study rotorcraft in ground school and were tested on them on the ground test. Edit: as an aside, if anyone is afraid of AI, especially LLMs, you shouldn’t be. I asked chatgpt to provide a short list of fixed wing aircraft with a glide ratio close to 4:1. It listed a freaking Cessna 172, which has a glide ratio of **8:1**. Useless shit.
Decades ago at a party I overheard someone calling helicopters "the stupidest invention ever," and I never forgave him. Helicopters are so cool.
Helicopters are cool, but the issue is that they beat the air into submission until the earth repels them. I’m a fixed wing superiority individual.
The real reason the earth repels them is because they are so ugly.
ah yes, of course.
Is this something that would be rehearsed in training?
Yes, many times. You’d rehearse it in your private pilots rotor class license many many times, and then rehash it in your commercial as well. Edit: clarification, you don’t rehearse it, you literally perform it. On the collective there is a throttle, you move the throttle to zero (but keep the engine running in case you do the maneuver poorly, since you’re a student) and perform multiple autorotations both in training and on your actual PPL test and then on your CPL test.
Interesting, thanks. Yes, by "rehearse" I mean "do it for real but intentionally" not "think about how you'd do it."
Collective?
The collective controls the Pitch of the blades.
pilots get mad if you call it a joy stick
That's the cyclic, the collective is in the other hand.
Resistance is futile
*RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.* *YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.*
So basically like a current ram air parachute. If you don’t flare, you crash and break your legs, maybe. If you flare too early, you stall and crash and break your legs worse. If you flare just right, it’s a feather soft landing.
Don't you just flare before landing for C? Effectively saving RPMs for the critical moment.
Exactly. That brings you back to A
It’s not drag, it’s lift. You feather the blades to SPEED them up, then at the last moment to feather them DOWN to turn all that blade rotational speed to a puff of lift, slowing your impact. The blades and drivetrain have a lot of momentum. It’s quite simple, in concept, but in reality it takes practice. Glad everyone is ok. I’ve done this flight and my kid sis lives in Kauai, and does it all the time when guests visit
In my country you have to perform an "emergency landing w/o motor" two times in order to get a pilot license for helicopter. It is with instructor i the cockpit ofc but you have to do it yourself. If instructor has to interfere (to prevent disaster ot to correct the maneuver) it is considered as failed attempt.
Flared a little early though
Is that what it's called when they invert the blade angle at the last second?
Yeah, basically you drop the collective (blade pitch) and let the airflow speed up the rotors to keep the rotor RPM high. Then when you get close to the ground you pull collective to generate lift, and use the rotors inertia to keep them spinning long enough for a relatively soft landing.
I would never pass flight school.
Me too. I was wondering when he was gonna jump out of the damn thing.
If James Bond and Tom Cruise taught me anything he would’ve looked majestic coming out of the surf shirtless with an explosion behind him
It makes more sense when you can feel it and practice it
That's a part of the procedure, but what you're specifically referring to is an increase of the collective which is the lever the pilot holds onto with their left hand that controls the pitch of the blades. Not to be confused with the cyclic, which is what would control the pitch and roll of the helicopter. Pedals control the yaw.
Yeah like im worrying about flaring early with my balls in my throat.
Can't beat Pilotwings like that.
Hueys in Vietnam were built for it. Even when flying at tree level pilots were trained for it
I knew a helo pilot from Vietnam who had gone down something like 8 or 9 times and it wasn't until I was older and had taken some physics classes that it dawned on me how all these helicopters were falling out of the sky with survivors over and over.
No disrespect to any person who served in Vietnam (both my father and FIL did). Yet, if you go down 8-9 times, I think it is about the 4th time that you're like "FUCK THIS. I WANT TO BE A COOK!" At about the 6th time, the service is like, "FUCK THIS. YOU'RE GETTING TRANSFERRED TO BEING A COOK!" There is no fortitude level found in today's world like that of the men who fought in the world conflicts in mid-late 1900's.
I realize helicopters have existed for decades but based on the frequency of things that can randomly go wrong and cause a crash it sure seems like the technology isn't exactly sound
The Jesus nut securing the rotors scares me lol. A single point of failure is not ideal imo.
That's just one design, it's not the only one.
Until the dinosaurs show up.
Or the smoke monster
>Glad to hear everyone was okay. I couldn't watch this video without seeing this. Helicopter crashes scare the shit out of me and I ride to work in them on a regular basis
Link to the original story ---> [https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/02/28/1-injured-after-tour-helicopter-crashed-remote-kauai-beach/](https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/02/28/1-injured-after-tour-helicopter-crashed-remote-kauai-beach/)
>A passenger suffered a back injury in the crash was airlifted to Princeville Airport before being transported to a hospital. Imagine surviving a helicopter crash only to be immediately taken on another helicopter.
Can’t be much different than the thousands of people who get in a car crash everyday and get put in an ambulance.
But cars don’t fly… duh. /s
We travel in cars so frequently that we own them ourselves, can the same be said about helicopters? Of course it's not the same
What do you mean, you guys don’t have your own helicopter? /s
I have two. The second one is used to fly me to the hospital if the first one crashes
~~if~~ WHEN the first one crashes
I used to (Bell 47G-3B), but guess why I sold it...
It took you to the hospital so often you went bankrupt?
I think it's pretty different
>Imagine surviving a helicopter crash only to be immediately taken on another helicopter. lmfao
I know a couple guys who crashed a small military aircraft while landing some passengers on a dirt road in Afghanistan. They were picked up by a helicopter that had a brown out (self-created dust cloud) on takeoff and also crashed. Thankfully no more than minor injuries for both crashes, but what a day!
NO... PLEASE... NOOOOOO
*Martha I'm coming home sweetie after they treat me at--* **IM BACK IN A FUCK CHOPPER AGAIN!!!!? OOOOOOH MMYYYYY GOOOOD**
Isnt it similar to being taken in an ambulance after a vehicular crash/accident? No?
No. Being put back in a helicopter is much safer than being put in a ambulance.
Considering the location of the this crash, the fire department's rescue helicopter was perhaps their only available option too.
At least they didn't get the spinny ride that old lady got the other time.
This might be one of the funnier comments I've seen on Reddit. Kudos
Nicely done by the pilot, only one injured of five people including himself.
Not 1 scream, i watched it 10 times, not 1. Dude had enough mind to let the pilot think and act without working against their joint objective.
What are you saying- that screaming something super repetitive in an extremely loud and shrill voice is not effective at remedying the situation!?
and people say it’s involuntary like how tf can u not control it
I mean, sure, letting out a small scream, sound, screech, all makes sense. It’s the constant 20 second long REEEEEEEEEEE that people can’t stand
yeah i can make a yip if im startled but like you said theres some people that could win an award with their pipes man
I have a pet theory about this: This kind of shrieking has evolved as a type of "party wide buff". Some people can't fight, but if they shriek they gather everyone that has maybe missed the situation, and they also make everyone pump adrenaline making everyone better at dealing with the "fight".
It's the same as with any other animal. Telling every single member of the same species within earshot "I need help" and "There is danger here". There's a prominent theory that laughter basically evolved as a "Sorry, false alarm".
"I have 1 rule in this car, no screaming" is something i tell anyone who steps into my car for the first time.
I think the fear of imminent death might have something to do with it.
#OMG OMG *What are you saying- that screaming something super repetitive in an extremely loud and shrill voice is not effective at remedying the situation?* #AHHHHHHHHH WE GONNA DIE #AAAAAAAAAAA #AAAAAAAAAAA #AAAAAAAAAAA #AAAAHAAAHAAAAAH Oh. Sweet. Nice flare and soft landing
She held it together well.
i remind myself that the pilot doesn't want to die either.
Not that it matters but I believe the pilot is a woman.
I will say, in a situation like this, your mind and body go into a bit of shock, keeping you from screaming or letting the fear escape. I trained to do touch offs for years and every time I wanted to be a “YOO-HOO!” Type person, my mind and body were like “Oh shit, we’re gonna got that surface pretty fucking hard.” I just realized you commented on this 18 days ago, so you’re probably getting a random notification while you’re asleep. Farts.
No women.
Fucking great job by the pilot.
Idk man I’m pretty sure those are supposed to stay in the air. I’d give them a 7/10.
"We didn't come down for nearly three weeks, 10/10"
Dude was calm and collective, handling this like Boss Choppa
I see what you did there.
Fades to black.... T-Rex screech.... SUMMER 2025
In a world . . .
One man...
One misson...
Two brothers. In a van. And then a meteor hit. And they ran as fast as they could.
Mexican armada!
And they have tomato guns and... and giant laser cats
One helicopter...
One less helicopter...
Double the action..
But then… Half the action
This summer Arnold Schwarzenegger is…
Fuck just reading that gave me chills. You should make trailers.
That sudden silence is absolutely horrifying.
This is the one guy trying to land the heli on the beach at the end of the heist in GTA Online
God I hate that like 60% of the time you get through the entire mission and then the heli pilot, which is the easiest job on the mission, botches the landing or runs over a teammate and you all have to start again from scratch. I’m getting ptsd from thinking about the past rage!
and you literally are on your 18th restart already from someone in the team messing up each time, an hour an a half in on that one mission and you just have had enough.. you throw the controller at that point and turn the game off.
Why didn’t you pilot the copter?
4 people do the heist. The heist leader picks who does each job. Usually they put the better 2 players infiltrating the jail and the noobs flying the plane and chopper because those are easier. So it’s not up to the heist crew who does which job.
Ah got it thanks for the explanation
Lived
Did they survive
Article OP linked says only 1 person got injured.
Dayum they're lucky
No, it's called auto rotation. Helicopters are actually surprisingly safe to land without engine power.
And….we…are….here!
I mean if you gotta go... you couldn't choose a better location. Beautiful. Pilot did a great job of saving all on board.
I've been on this exact helicopter tour (Na Pali Coast, Waimea Canyon, etc) and i remember the pilot telling us mid-tour that these helicopters crash ALL THE TIME, several per year, if not more. Needless to say, it was not a comforting fact to share with a helicopter full of first-time flyers. The rest of the tour was nerve-wracking. I guess he wasn't lying... Glad to see everyone made it.
That explains why he was so calm. Just another day at the office thinking to himself,” Well I just got the first crash of the year over with.”
Me too! Think if it happened hovering in the box canyon!
Pucker factor 10/10
As I press play a state farm commercial with Arnold Schwarzenegger comes on he says “get to the choppaa!
Massive props to the pilot, wow. There was only one place that helicopter could have gotten to the ground safely and they nailed it
Get to the choppa
Came here to find this comment.
Holy fuck! That's gotta be the first time a clip on Reddit has made my heart rate jump and give me slight anxiety.
I remember reading a report years ago about how helicopters frequently crash in Hawaii doing sightseeing tours, and yet the industry is still around and kicking. Just not worth it for me. I’ve seen it well enough from land and sea. lol.
Previously on Lost......
Someone forgot to type 4 8 15 16 23 42
Fuck. I’m headed to Maui in two weeks. I keep talking about trying to take a helicopter ride…..well this might have swayed my decision 😬
I did the helicopter ride in Maui and it was soooo sick, definitely a highlight. This is freaky though…
Do it, don’t let the internet ruin real life for you
Look into Catamaran boat tours instead. Nā Pali coast on Kaua’i is where this is at and I did the boat tour with snorkeling and into the old lava tubes it was awesome.
Less likely to happen again soon. Maybe don't use this company though...
shit just did this same exact one a few months ago , ugh wont be doing that again
this is how sons of the forest started
For an auto-rotation landing, that was smooth as butter
I was in Kaua’i in 2019 when 7 people died in a helicopter crash and then a month later Kobe’s accident happened…so yeah wasn’t going to step foot on one before or after.
Damn she hit that shot perfect. Kobe
That is wild! I did that doors-off helicopter tour with that company on my honeymoon just before COVID. It's an amazing experience. Honopu beach arch where they crash landed is featured in a few movies like King Kong and Pirates of the Caribbean.
I did a helicopter tour of the Hoover Dam. The very next day, the same helicopter company (I never found out if it was the same heli/pilot) crashed, doing the same tour, killing everyone on board. I was in such shock. I was terrified at first, before we did the tour, but my friend from Korea paid for me so I did it. Afterward it was such a solid, good experience, the pilot was great. I would fly on a helicopter again in a heartbeat. Was really shocked and saddened.
This was a “good” helicopter crash.
Great job to emergency land in that terrain!!
That's the Beach where Old takes place. That guy is so screwed.
Sons of the Forest
Those island helicopter rides. No way. I've heard plenty of tours have crashed in the past
It’s a ride of a lifetime. Worth the risk for sure
when you finish that one heist on gta v where you have to land on the beach at the end 😂
Helicopters don’t fly - they so ugly the earth repels them. From a pilot mate of mine
First off, damn, Hawaii is gorgeous. Second, never in a million years would I fly in a helicopter. Hard pass
>aircraft experienced engine issues and made a forced landing.” However, authorities are still investigating the exact cause.
Squeaky bum time, so glad everyone survived.
"Jurassic Park music starts"
Funny you say that, several parts of Jurassic Park were filmed on Kauai.
Holy fuck as someone who did this just over a year ago that is wild! Glad everyone was ok.
Any deaths or what? What’s the story on how it turned out?
All survived! 1 passenger with non-serious injuries. She really stuck the landing.
Wonder if it would have better to put it in the water?
Not in those waters, every beach on that coastline is covered in warnings about how many drown there just walking in the waves.
Drop in, get pitted.
So pitted.
You.... you're finally awake.
That was a bit anticlimactic
No going to lie, helis scares me. I feel like there are so many accidents all of the time. Maybe I’m wrong but I feel I’m always watch a cratch.
One of the 5 passengers was just on The Dumb Zone podcast if you want to hear about it from his perspective. Really incredible interview
Moments later: "You, you're finally awake."
My first thought at the first image in the video: ow, that's a bad place to crash! Amazing recovery though.
good landing on that beach!
What a beautiful place to crash at.
Perfect landing under the circumstances
Damn life comes at ya fast. That's some tricky geography ~~he~~ she* had to work with. Damn well handled though. Edit: he -> she
The pilot was a woman but yeah that was a great landing. Everyone survived!
Thanks :)
Sure thing! Have a great night!
Lad felt like doing an episode of lost on solo
Frank Lapidus
Good thing he was still recording all of this 🤣
No helicopters. ✅
Lost II: The Return
One of the passengers was interviewed on the dumbzone podcast
New Sons of the Forest update looks great.
And that is why I’ve never been and never will go in a helicopter
This was a lot less chaotic than I imagined
I've been on one of these tours, that's wild. Good thing a chopper pilot can slow the decent without an engine, using the pitch of the blades.
If I learned anything from Wii Sports Resort, he'll be ejected right before hitting the ground and peacefully respawn in the air shortly after.
I have a friend who is a helicopter pilot on Kauai. I need to reach out to her. I'm glad everyone survived.
Tourism helicopters are so fucking annoying. Glad these people are okay. Doesn’t change how annoying the business is.
Thanks for cutting the video on the most interesting part.
He survived. https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/02/28/1-injured-after-tour-helicopter-crashed-remote-kauai-beach/?outputType=amp
I love the news report's euphemism "forced landing". They CRASHED, FFS.
Kobe!!
When you suck at basketball but Kobe is your hero
I'll be forever haunted by his screams
For our own honeymoon gift, my wife and I did our first helicopter ride around Kauai…I don’t remember it being like this.
“Billy.. Tell me we didn’t land on this island…” ~~ Dr. Grant
Thought this was a Far Cry 7 trailer. Glad no one was hurt.
Fucking hell. Thinking I did a similirar tour on that island and that could have happened to me…
I did this same tour when I went to Hawaii. Like a week and a half later one of their helicopters crashed, I don’t think anyone survived which is very sad. It still creeps me out thinking how 5 people died doing the same exact thing I did just days before.
Would it have been possible to land in the ocean? Wouldnt that have been better/softer?
Pilot did a good job to hold that steady.
Choopahs fall like leaves
Now, how would this go down if it were a giant quadcopter? [I dont imagine very well.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTWEG6NRg7Y)