Helicopter crash in Huntington Beach

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Wow. This is a wild video. I wonder if it was due to wind. It’s super windy here in Vegas today.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Damn. That could have been way worse. Hopefully nobody perished. Looked survivable.

 

[elektra]

Wow. This is a wild video. I wonder if it was due to wind. It’s super windy here in ...

The palm tree leaves are still, looks like no wind but who knows

 

[elektra]

Looks as if it came down cause of a problem. Too many people and obstacles to land there but I cant really tell

 

[Rambunctious]

Five people were hospitalized after a helicopter crashed along Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach on Saturday afternoon, officials said.

Details are still emerging, but initial dispatch information from the California Highway Patrol indicates the crash was reported around 2:09 p.m. near the Cars ‘N Copters on the Coast event site, in front of the Waterfront Beach Resort.

Footage obtained by KTLA shows the helicopter descending toward the street as spectators look on, when it suddenly drops and crashes near the roadway.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/3-hospitalized-after-helicopter-crash-in-huntington-beach/

 

[AZrailwhale]

Looks as if it came down cause of a problem. Too many people and obstacles to land there but I cant really tell

Looks like the tail rotor failed.

 

[OKTexas]

Wow. This is a wild video. I wonder if it was due to wind. It’s super windy here in Vegas today.

He lost control of his tail rotor. Probably a mechanical failure.

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[White 6]

Damn. That could have been way worse. Hopefully nobody perished. Looked survivable.

Looks like a cable end came loose going to tail rotor, so the craft was no longer able to counter the torque of the rotating main blades.

 

[Concerned American]

Wow. This is a wild video. I wonder if it was due to wind. It’s super windy here in Vegas today.

Watching the video, as the helicopter is coming in, the tail rotor is barely turning. I believe its function is to prevent the spinning of the fuselage. It appears it may have been a mechanical malfunction.

 

[westwall]

Wow. This is a wild video. I wonder if it was due to wind. It’s super windy here in Vegas today.

He lost his tail rotor.

 

[MayorQuimby]

Five people were hospitalized after a helicopter crashed

Kind of strange that people just got injured instead of straight up died. When something in the sky like a helicopter fell, people in it should be dead.

 

[jackflash]

Wow. This is a wild video. I wonder if it was due to wind. It’s super windy here in Vegas today.

It looks like the ground "buffered" the choppers sudden impact.

 

[Failzero]

They have videos that seem to show a large Bird hittin the tail rotor ( I’m dubious and am thinkin drone )

 

[odanny]

Could you imagine whoever was on that tilt-a-whirl ride, the feeling of spinning around knowing you are about to crash? And then quite possibly being able to walk away from it? Those trees saved their lives. No post crash fire.

 

[1srelluc]

Looks like a palm tree helped him as far as slowing the crash down a bit. No fireball.

 

[toobfreak]

Wow. This is a wild video. I wonder if it was due to wind. It’s super windy here in Vegas today.

Wind: I did not see any signs of wind at all in the many palm trees.

It looked more like he was having a problem with the rear rotor, went up higher trying to buy himself time and space, then finally lost it all.

That one tree that got chopped in half probably saved lives by absorbing the brunt of most of the props rotational energy, stopping it spinning quickly yet not breaking it sending parts flying.

 

[toobfreak]

It looks like the ground "buffered" the choppers sudden impact.

I counted two trees that seem to have absorbed most or all of the prop spinning energy before it hit ground.

 

[Failzero]

The Bird Strike on the Rear Rotor looks pretty convincing

 

[toobfreak]

The Bird Strike on the Rear Rotor looks pretty convincing

Yeah, there seems to be a bird involved in there at some point but the chopper seemed to be having problems long before the bird was flung off.

 

[Failzero]

Yeah, there seems to be a bird involved in there at some point but the chopper seemed to be having problems long before the bird was flung off.

So far I have seen 16 different Videos of the Copter, some up to 4 mins prior to the Crash and some from as far away as 2 Km from the Crash site , I’m sure more & better videos will surface .