Heli Crash in Brooklyn

[Iroquois]

It's amazing that that anybody survived this without life threatning injury.

A news chopper for WNBC-TV crash landed in Brooklyn. The helicopter had been covering a shooting at the time. It started to circle out of control, clipped a building, and landed hard on a roof crushing it like a tin can. Amazingly the pilot and reporter walked away from th crash.

The crash was actually caught on tape by another news helicopter.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/video/ ... ideo2.html

I'm no heli expert but it looks to me like a tail roter problem.

[ozzy72]

Talk about the luck of the Irish
I bet those guys are sinking a few tonight, and boy do they deserve it!

Ozzy

[Smoke2much]

The reporter said that all three men were in hospital in a serious condition.  This makes it unlikely that they will be out buying beer tonight.  Can someone from New York get an update because I can find nothing on the story anywhere.

Will

[Loafing Smurf]

I just saw the video on Regis and Kelly. (New York morning show)

Lucky everyone survived.

[Craig.]

cant really tell from that video but i dont think it was a tail rotor problem, it wouldnt do that with even a loss of the rotor. could have been a nasty gust of wind off the buildings during a turn.

[RIC_BARKER]

From what I saw on Sky the chopper clipped a building and broke the tail rotor, then lost control.

Glad those guys got out alive, they are sure lucky (or unlucky depending on your outlook!)

Ric B.

[Scorpiоn]

I saw the footage last night, what I don't understand is how (at least) one person was up and walking about after the crash and all in the helicopter are in serious condition.

???

[Jaffa]

I just heard on the news that the pilot had reported a tail rotor failure just before the crash and that the 2 in the hospital have been upgraded to stable condition.

Good news!

[Iroquois]

I heard that the two pilots weren't badly injured but the reporter had to be hospitalized. They probably survived because of the relatively short fall.

[Rivers]

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