I think he’s gonna need some clean underwear after that.
Any landing you can walk away from.........
Holy Smokes! Whose bright idea was that?
WOW!
What is the “fistive” season? Sounds painful...
I stopped using a helicopter to put up Christmas decorations a long time ago. Everything goes at eye level now.
I saw the video on the morning news. The pilot is lucky, that is for sure. In this case luck won out over stupidity on his part. In other than an emergency situation you don’t really want to try to take a chance on bringing in the copter so close to guide wires and other tall obstructions like this one did. It was a recipe for disaster.
ping
If they had called it a Holiday tree instead of a Christmas tree....this would not have happened!
Emma Peel! They have the Avengers involved. -- This must be big!
26 meters (about 85 feet) is about the same height as the tree in Rockefeller Center in New York City - and that is always put up using a crane. Wonder why they used a helicopter?
The lucky one was that guy wearing the hardhat in the foreground. Surprised he didn’t get a blade to the body.
WOW. The pilot almost came out of the door
Years ago my friend(a newbie pilot)and I shared a shuttle bus with a group of American Airlines pilots. Striking up a conversation , the pilots exploded in laughter when I asked if any were also chopper pilots.
One replied with a smirk “ Gary Powers was shot down in a plane at 70,000 ft and walked away. He later died piloting a news helicopter. Son, planes can glide but choppers go down like a cow flop(paraphrasing).”
For 20 years that has kept me out of a helicopter and I am forever grateful. I was in Maui last month and my girlfriend begged me to go on a helicopter tour but I flatly refused. One week later that chopper went down killing all the tourists and pilot aboard.
Kind of reinforces my belief that we all have an expiration date. If its not your time, you won’t be killed... Also explains why some people walk away from horrible accidents ( in planes) and someone dies at a relative small car accident..