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And his family too. Have to be all dead given the fireball footage.
Apparently tail propeller failed and sent it spinning to the ground. Not a chance anyone in it survived you feel.
I don't suppose it landed on Nigel Pearson?
8 dead apparently.
A United account going all in on an air crash is slightly unexpected.
How does a helicopter manage to go that wrong that quickly? Could only have been seconds into the flight.
Twittering this somehow threw up that weird little Jamie Vardy bloke, who now does 'live reaction' streams and a podcast, neither of which seem to attract any likes or re-tweets. I'm not saying these lads didn't die in vain, but it's certainly a tangible result.
BBC reckon Puel was in it too.
The pilot probably skipped on or missed something in the pre-flight checks. Maybe it's a Matthew Harding situation where the pilot's unqualified, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
That would take the mourning up several million notches.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
He wasn't in it.
How do you know? By now I would think someone would confirm if he was or not.
His family might've reported him missing.
I doubt he was as we'd know by now.
Have you seen him? Seems all a bit hush hush.
So hush hush it's all over every single news outlet.
Its not even been confirmed that the owners was on the helicopter yet. But yeah, not hush hush at all. :face:Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco
It's literally the first thing on the BBC news and sport sites, not much of a cover up.
Bam only looks st the pictures.
Are we sure Puel wasn't on it? Seems a bit hush hush
Was Nigel pearson on it?
If only they'd had better protection inside the helicopter.
If they weren't killed suddenly by the impact of the crash than their deaths must have been utterly horrific.
They're absolute lethal and I struggle to think of a more dangerous form of transport.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
True, along with motorcycles it's the one thing you won't catch me on any time soon, unless I need rescuing from a glacier or something, and even then it's probably the more sensible option to just leave me there.
I don't trust them at all. The ones we use to go offshore are pretty reliable (Sikorsky s92) and its only a twenty minute flight. Fuck being one of the operators who send them out on 2 hour+ journeys each way offshore. First one I went on one I was a bit surprised at the door visibly vibrating, then realised the entire fucking thing vibrates. Nowadays I lean back and if you're in the right seat, it's almost like a back massage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
The 'survival suit' we wear offshore helps if you drop in water. If you're on land and it falls, good luck to you.
Only once have I been on a chopper and been concerned. Admittedly I did also end up taking a 2.5 hour jaunt on what should've been a twenty minute journey, including spending 30-45 minutes on an Fpso as the chopper refuelled as they "fixed a minor technical issue". I decided against asking what the technical issue was.
They feel like a bunch of parts trying to shake themselves to bits, and when something does go wrong you plummet to earth surrounded by whirling metal. No thanks.
Mental.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco
If I go offshore instead of working 8 hours, I have to work minimum 12. I stay in a bunk bed in the safe side of a hazardous environment. And to get to and from I get in a helicopter. £110 extra per night pre tax is what I get. Underpaid overtime.
Lucrative it is not.
The lad who used to come around and fix our computer when we were kids died in a helicopter crash (his fault), but when you see the pictures you wonder a) how it remained intact like that; and b) how only he died.
They always compress into a mangled mesh.
I mean, look at the state of that:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fa...w=1920&bih=969
The United Twitter account tacked this Leicester stuff onto the Remembrance Sunday silence (which itself seems pointless to me). Has anyone even been confirmed dead yet?
No, it’s all a bit hush hush.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
No but given they could name a few directors who weren't on it last night, combined with all the tributes to the owner, it seems like an open secret.
Eamonn Holmes must be seething.
I'd imagine a formal ID might take a while.
Confirmed chairman a goner.
Surprised this hasn't brought Lee out of the woodwork.
As well as 4 others.
I never know whether I'm lolling at the stupid joke, or the fact that somebody has just lobbed it out there. Probably both really.
I can confirm he's torn up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magic
He seems too cold to be the type.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kikó
Did we have that many Leicester fans on here?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
That paedophile who he moved to Scotland with and her kids probably still look out for their results because of him, so let's use them.
In terms of accidents per trip, helicopters must be up there with small planes.
At least small planes can glide.
Hobbyist pilots, man.
That's a plane isn't it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
A FOREIGN plane.
I'd be much more worried getting on any sort of plane in South East Asia or Africa than I would be getting on a helicopter in the first world.
I am for racism tooQuote:
Originally Posted by dino
Thanks phonics.Quote:
Originally Posted by SincereTheRebel
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Originally Posted by SincereTheRebel
Video of it up on reddit/youtube. You dont see the crash but you see it beginning to spin out of control.
https://youtu.be/G0yU_W8kE6o
That takeoff looked ominous.
It's been described that they knew something was fucked almost instantly (they barely cleared the roof) and the pilot spent the rest of his efforts making sure he'd crash somewhere empty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
Not instantly enough to just throttle off and plonk back on the pitch? Or is a takeoff kinda final when it comes to choppers? Granted, the pitchside wouldn't be empty but you'd crash at a slower speed.
There was smoke billowing out of the back before they even took off. It should never have left the ground.
That's condensation surely.
Is it? Is that a thing? I've never seen it before, but I don't really watch many helicopter take off videos.
Yeah I dunno, but you'd hope that they'd know not to take off if that sort of thing was unusual.
I think that's normal. They have a pipe there that probably needed to vent in the cold weather.
Just like the exhaust pipes of your car smoke for a few minutes.
That's just vapour or exhaust gases, the way it spins in the air is absolutely a failure of the rear rotor, an engine or transmission problem would have affected the main rotor as well.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46100722
Will people never learn.
"How awesome to spend your honeymoon with Jesus"
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Some friends wanted me and my wife to join them on a Grand Canyon helicopter tour when we were in Vegas. I said absolutely no chance. You'll never find me in one of those death machines.
I flew from Belfast to northern England in one before and I always promised myself it would be the last time I ever set foot in one.
The picture. The quotes. That article wouldn't be out of place on The Onion. Fucking 'murica.
Especially in that windy crevice.Quote:
Originally Posted by SvN
Bit of respect for the man's Mrs please.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
:D
I did this a few months back:
https://www.goorange.co.nz/en/experi...ver-heli-raft/
Helicoptering into a narrow gorge, followed by grade 5 whitewater rafting down the river.
It was awesome.
Alan bursts into the lead of the national grief competition.
Still probably more accurate than Garth Crooks submission.
Can't really begrudge it.