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[ - ] Master_Foo 12 points 2 monthsApr 10, 2025 22:46:23 ago (+12/-0)

Interesting how they can identify everyone in the helicopter except the pilot.

[ - ] qwop 8 points 2 monthsApr 11, 2025 02:21:06 ago (+8/-0)

Found the pilot among one of the family pictures:
https://files.catbox.moe/urogys.jpg

[ - ] Master_Foo 0 points 2 monthsApr 11, 2025 19:14:59 ago (+0/-0)

As much as I want to believe.
I find it unlikely that somehow we have pictures of the family taken minutes before they crashed in a helicopter.
I mean, are we expected to believe that they were about to take off, then they stopped to upload these pictures, then they departed?

That is a nigger flying a helicopter, to be sure, but it isn't the same nigger or same helicopter as the crash.

So, the question remains.
What nigger was crashing this helicopter?

[ - ] InYourFaceNancyGrace 1 point 2 monthsApr 11, 2025 09:35:57 ago (+1/-0)

Coulter's Law wins again

[ - ] dosvydanya_freedomz [op] 7 points 2 monthsApr 10, 2025 22:10:02 ago (+7/-0)

[ - ] KosherHiveKicker 4 points 2 monthsApr 10, 2025 22:49:10 ago (+4/-0)*

For Real!

The main rotor is seen completely separated and falling, and the back half of the tail rotor is completely missing from the falling crew cab? It would have to be some kind of CRAZY catastrophic failure of the main drive train to produce that without some type of external event.

If you look closely as the crew cab is inverted... you can see human sized objects coming off of the helicopter. One of them looks like the females color of coat also.

- https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/aug.JPG?itok=wETVCGy3

[ - ] uvulectomy 3 points 2 monthsApr 11, 2025 03:44:02 ago (+3/-0)

My initial thought was "blade strike." Sudden severe cyclic inputs fore and aft, possibly combined with low rotor RPM could make the blades flex enough to strike the tail boom.

However, were that the case, the tail boom would be hit further aft. In the video, it's severed almost directly behind the engine bay, well forward of the horizontal stabilizers.

Also the main rotor blades would be severely damaged, with one or both likely separating from the rotor hub. But in the video, the main rotor blades look nearly intact and still attached to the hub (which appears to have separated from the aircraft.

The helicopter was on its sixth flight of the day. If you were closing in on a catastrophic failure like that, I'd think (but I'm not an expert) you'd be noticing increased vibration and would get it checked out. Main rotors just don't turn fast enough for a sudden failure if it's mechanical wear.

However, the Bell 206 does use a turbine engine, and sometimes those DO fail catastrophically if maintenance is lax, or if it's had one or more "hot starts" in the past (EGT going beyond a manufacturer specified limit before light-off, and you're supposed to immediately abort startup if a pre-determined lower threshold is exceeded).

My non-schizo theory:

1. Poor maintenance
2. A previous hot-start due to lax procedures or rushed schedules (given the number of daily flights) that caused unknown damage in the past
3. The turbine section of the engine experienced an uncontained failure, ejecting debris toward the tail boom, possibly severing it.
4. The failure of the engine damaged the transmission linkage to the rotor hub, and the resulting stresses severed the bolts keeping everything in place.

There does appear to be some damage right where the aft end of the engine would be, so that further bolsters my thinking. Witnesses who reported hearing loud booms prior to the crash may have been hearing the catastrophic failure of the engine.

The maintenance records will be getting looked at very closely now I'm sure.

[ - ] Rowdybme 2 points 2 monthsApr 10, 2025 23:46:44 ago (+2/-0)

Do you think they are ok?

[ - ] doginventer 1 point 2 monthsApr 11, 2025 07:45:01 ago (+1/-0)

That white ‘sculpture’ in the background is called “Water’s soul” by Jaume plensa

https://waterssouljc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Photo1-1.jpg

Water's Soul - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%27s_Soul

[ - ] GreatSatan -3 points 2 monthsApr 11, 2025 01:01:10 ago (+0/-3)

Everything is a conspiracy with you nutjobs

[ - ] shitface9000 0 points 2 monthsApr 11, 2025 03:35:14 ago (+0/-0)

*your

[ - ] doginventer 0 points 2 monthsApr 11, 2025 07:52:24 ago (+0/-0)

*Yar