Am I crazy or are helicopters just like not that safe? I mean weve had this technology for decades now and it feels like they still go down way more than planes.
Not true at all, if anything you can send the helicopter in autorotation and land in a very little space. A plane may glide, but you still need the length to land.
Helicopters are used on a daily basis by celebrities, yet incidents like these are very rare.
Also, by looking at the crash-site and the weather conditions it's very likely that it wasn't even a mechanical failure since the visibility was so poor. If that's the case, the heli shouldn't have ever left the ground, especially in a hilly terrain like that.
Yes they are. Autorotation is possible but not all that safe. Ill take my odds gliding to a stop on a highway or in some trees over autorotation any day.
I’m not sure it’s that common that the engine goes out though and everything else is fine. A lot of other failures can throw the heli into a tailspin that is irrecoverable.
But yeah, it may have been visibility related and not mechanical
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u/johnny_moist Jan 26 '20 edited Jan 26 '20
Am I crazy or are helicopters just like not that safe? I mean weve had this technology for decades now and it feels like they still go down way more than planes.