Helicopter crashes in Huntington Beach - GIF

[ToolTalkBot]

Helicopter crashes in Huntington Beach.




Previously:

Helicopter lands on trailer - GIF
Helicopter main rotor blade flex - GIF
Helicopter rescue within inches of a mountainside - GIF
Hughes HX-17 heavy-lift helicopter - photos
Plane skids off runway and crashes into helicopter - GIF

[albertq]

The cause was a tail rotor pitch link failure. Just before it hit the trees the main rotor mast sheared due to mast bumping with only the pitch links keeping rotor assembly attached. If this had happened 50 ft higher, they probably wouldn't have survived.