Helicopter crash in parking lot - GIF

[Altair]

Helicopter crash in parking lot.




Previously:

Pilot with zero experience tries to fly helicopter - GIF
Miami Beach helicopter crash - GIF
Chernobyl helicopter crash - GIF
Men cling on to helicopter as it takes off - GIF
Helicopter crashes after tail rotor strikes ground - GIF

[Frank S]

That pilot defiantly did not have a rating on his ticket for that type of aircraft

[mccwho]

By the looks of the guy running out the door and gesturing to shut it down. Whomever was at the controls shouldn't have been.
Wheather qualified rotor wing pilot or not, further considering that that maybe there was something mechanically wrong with it and the pilot did not know. Trying to fly a broken rotary wing is a doomed action.
Too much room for assumptions and conjecture with this video and not enough facts to know what was going on.

Murphy says, "If you think you understand everything, than obviously you don't know what the hell is going on."

[Inflight]

The gust of wind caused the accident.


Here is the real story:

An investigation into the helicopter crash that severely wounded a Little Rock Police Department pilot found no pilot error and said the incident was caused by a strong gust of wind.

Investigators said pilot Bill Denio, an aviator for more than 46 years who had logged more than 8,000 hours of flight time, had no intention of flying the Air-3 Bell helicopter on Aug. 16, but planned to idle the aircraft to test a new battery that had recently been installed.

At approximately 10:20 a.m., a wind flowing south struck the aircraft, causing the nose of the helicopter to lurch off of the dolly and become briefly airborne as Denio tried to stabilize it, the report said. The helicopter's rear point caught beneath the dolly it was originally sitting on, rotating the aircraft and causing it to crash, investigators said.

Two officers who were at the hangar at the time of the crash had to cut Denio, who was harnessed into the aircraft, out in order to render first aid until an ambulance could arrive. Denio was severely injured in the crash, with multiple broken ribs, a separated sternum and a brain bleed. He has since not been able to recall the accident, the report said.

The helicopter crashed near 10400 Ironton Cutoff Road, the department's aviation hangar, according to an initial police report.

The $500,000 helicopter, which was irreparably damaged in the accident, was primarily used to monitor major events in Little Rock and had been flown for 25.7 hours between Aug. 20, 2017 and the crash. The Little Rock Police Department employs four licensed, part-time pilots.

[mr mikey]

I hope the Officer will be ok, He is in our thoughts and prayers. Mr Mikey.

[bob_3000]

That pilot defiantly did not have a rating on his ticket for that type of aircraft

Good thing you aren't jumping to conclusions.

[Hoosiersmoker]

Hopefully he'll be OK soon. I'm sure he wouldn't have left the door open if he intended to actually fly. Probably lucky he was harnessed though.

[Nick79]

Hard to tell when everything seems to go wrong, it all looks like it happened so fast and difficult to correct. I am not a helicopter pilot and I don’t know how fast the blade should rotate at idle. Regardless, I hope the pilot is doing better and recovering.

[Duke_of_URL]

The pilot might have been able to maintain control through the wind gust had his right-side aft skid not hooked under the aircraft trolly. That cooked him. I’m somewhat amazed that there was no policy to have all static tests be accompanied by firm fixation of the helicopter skids to the trolly. There’s no reason to have it be “free” unless it has been prepared for flight.

[Hans Pearson]

I don't see a tail rotor on the aircraft in the video?