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What happens when you fuck up in the Arctic as a chopper pilot.

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More,

[xerxes]

Ay Carumba!

Was that you? ( I hope not)

[ShepherdsDog]

was that hydaulic fluid or blood by the canopy?

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Still gives me goosebumps to see these.

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More.Think I reposted a few,they were taken during the initial rescue,the pilot couldnt leave camp for 5 days.

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xerxes wrote:

8O Ay Carumba!

Was that you? ( I hope not)

No but it was allmost my bud,I stayed an extra week so I was good to go. Dont think you'll see this on the NTSB site along with other crash's as long as no one died.

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ShepherdsDog wrote:

was that hydaulic fluid or blood by the canopy?

A bit of both,see #7.
The guy did everything right,he was only 2 miles from camp but set down for 0 visibility at a survival shack.That saved his life as he crawled into it when he came to. He was an older experienced pilot with Arctic experience but had never been to our little slice of paradise before,it's all gps,no landmarks in the winter when everythings white,they set down on the tundra for a week at a time if it gets bad.


EDIT-maybe brake fluid? Think the blood was confined to his parka.

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Thanks to Kevin Fowler for the pics,the old camp manager who was first at the scene in that yellow Bombi.He said going out to rescue that pilot was the scariest thing he ever did in his life.

They had lost all radio contact since he left Baker lake so it was a guessing game as to where he was,thanks to the military in Winnipeg they had his coordinates down and were able to get to do a flyover within a couple hours,it was a chopper and may have been American as inverted has told me we dont have any chinooks in Manitoba. You could only hear it anyways

They had another chopper crash in 2001,the military also were there right away,says a lot about our folks serving in her majesty's finest.

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If you look at picture #1 you can see how the pilot was ejected as he sits in the right hand seat,and that isnt brake fluid on the snow.I never did think to check the seatbelts,they probably got ripped out on impact,he did get thrown into the left seat and then outside,what happened after that is speculation and a mystery.

With the rotor blade so far away from the crash site I can only think he had a heck of a landing and probably had to change his gaunch once he woke up.

[fatbasturd]

that is what i would call a bad fucking day indeed.

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The tail rotor is still in one piece.... I wonder if it was even turning at the moment of impact?

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The tail rotor is still in one piece.... I wonder if it was even turning at the moment of impact?

Wouldnt it have stopped when the main rotor hit the snow? I know the tips of the tail rotors had some nicks on them and the pilot didnt report any mechanical problems,he put it down because of zero visibility and flipped probably when he was allmost on the ground and his main rotor hit the snow,I bet the whole thing took about 1.5 seconds if even that long.

Thats the guys second crash.

[BartSimpson]

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Thats the guys second crash.

I'd say he's pushing his luck.

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Slinging the wounded bird out.