Helicopter Crash in Leicester
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https://news.sky.com/story/helicopter-crash-outsid...
Says here it belongs to the owner of Leicester City FC https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/leicester-helic...
Says here it belongs to the owner of Leicester City FC https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/leicester-helic...
CoolC said:
https://news.sky.com/story/helicopter-crash-outsid...
Says here it belongs to the owner of Leicester City FC https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/leicester-helic...
My first thought too, didn’t they often fly in and out of the ground on match day landing on the pitch.Says here it belongs to the owner of Leicester City FC https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/leicester-helic...
Witness reports it spiralling- that usually means no tail rotor so possibly caught it on the way out, leaving a football stadium is a very confined area requiring a towering takeoff & there is no where to go to auto rotate in case of engine failure, I hope the ground was empty at the time.
Let’s hope they got out before the fire.
Let’s hope they got out before the fire.
From BBC:
Sky Sports News reporter Rob Dorsett said the helicopter took off from the pitch, as it does after every game.
He said that after a few seconds it appeared to lose control and crashed into the car park just a few hundred metres away.
One witness said it appeared "the tail propeller wasn't working, putting it into a spin".
Freelance photographer Ryan Brown was covering the game and saw the helicopter clear the King Power stadium before it crashed.
He told 5 Live: "Literally the engine stopped and I turned around, and it made a bit of a whirring noise.
"It turned silent, blades started spinning and then there was a big bang."
Sky Sports News reporter Rob Dorsett said the helicopter took off from the pitch, as it does after every game.
He said that after a few seconds it appeared to lose control and crashed into the car park just a few hundred metres away.
One witness said it appeared "the tail propeller wasn't working, putting it into a spin".
Freelance photographer Ryan Brown was covering the game and saw the helicopter clear the King Power stadium before it crashed.
He told 5 Live: "Literally the engine stopped and I turned around, and it made a bit of a whirring noise.
"It turned silent, blades started spinning and then there was a big bang."
ecsrobin said:
From BBC:
Sky Sports News reporter Rob Dorsett said the helicopter took off from the pitch, as it does after every game.
He said that after a few seconds it appeared to lose control and crashed into the car park just a few hundred metres away.
One witness said it appeared "the tail propeller wasn't working, putting it into a spin".
Freelance photographer Ryan Brown was covering the game and saw the helicopter clear the King Power stadium before it crashed.
He told 5 Live: "Literally the engine stopped and I turned around, and it made a bit of a whirring noise.
"It turned silent, blades started spinning and then there was a big bang."
both engines stopped?? am guessing it has a rear tail rotor gearbox? Sky Sports News reporter Rob Dorsett said the helicopter took off from the pitch, as it does after every game.
He said that after a few seconds it appeared to lose control and crashed into the car park just a few hundred metres away.
One witness said it appeared "the tail propeller wasn't working, putting it into a spin".
Freelance photographer Ryan Brown was covering the game and saw the helicopter clear the King Power stadium before it crashed.
He told 5 Live: "Literally the engine stopped and I turned around, and it made a bit of a whirring noise.
"It turned silent, blades started spinning and then there was a big bang."
If you loose the tail rotor you put the lever down fast and enter autorotation, the noise of the engines would drop and you would hear the main rotor blades more, in auto rotation the helicopter can glide but in order to auto rotate you need forward airspeed, I fear they were in what’s known as the ‘dead mans curve’ with high torque and no forwatd airspeed, the machine will then auto like a brick & you are going straight down, there is a chance of survival by raising the lever just before you hit the deck and cushioning the landing but it’s only possible if the rotor blades still have enough inertia in them.
DHE said:
Horrific thing to see, RIP to those caught up in this, hopefully it did not have a full load of passengers on board. Helicopters do not crash well.classicaholic said:
If you loose the tail rotor you put the lever down fast and enter autorotation, the noise of the engines would drop and you would hear the main rotor blades more, in auto rotation the helicopter can glide but in order to auto rotate you need forward airspeed, I fear they were in what’s known as the ‘dead mans curve’ with high torque and no forwatd airspeed, the machine will then auto like a brick & you are going straight down, there is a chance of survival by raising the lever just before you hit the deck and cushioning the landing but it’s only possible if the rotor blades still have enough inertia in them.
Yes, it sounds like a terrible situation to find yourself in. I fear there’s not much hope of any good news to follow later tonight.Apparently on fire before it crashed and Vichai was onboard 
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If a tail rotor fails on a helicopter there is very little control authority left for the pilot to control the helicopter. Generally, once the tail rotor fails, the helicopter fuselage starts to rotate under the main rotor. The pilot will have throttle control so he may be able to initiate a descent but with the helicopter rotating it is hard to keep it all under control.
Jordan210 said:
Awful news.
It looks like it crashed in to an unused part of the car park. Wonder if the pilot did this to save life’s.
No. They were barely clear of the stadium. They didn't have the height to be selective about where they hit. It looks like it crashed in to an unused part of the car park. Wonder if the pilot did this to save life’s.
And according to witnesses it lost power and therefore control too.
Hopefully no-one on the ground was hurt.
As an aside, I've not seen any footage of ambulances rushing off to hospital, which doesn't bode well for the occupants.
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