Maybe He has a Twin........Spare Helmet 😂😂

LOL His co-pilot is "Ejection Seat Failed Inspection".

Ha. Well spotted.

It was kinda odd seeing an older MBU-12/p mask in use. What probably happened was his MBU-23/p mask was due for an inspection and he was forced to use the spare from life support.

At least they're not off a 2A where you have to move them manually.

@@KravKernow lol 🤣

It didn't even touch the wires. The movement of the wire was from rotor wash...smh

@@a914freak He never said it did. Does look like the rotors hit it to me though.

@@Marco37472 Did you see the title????lol "Black Hawk helicopter hits power lines"....smh

@@a914freak I thought the same until I watched in slowed speed. Look closely and you’ll see the main rotor cuts the top static/neutral wire. The three wires below that shake from the rotor wash.

I saw the wire(s) move, but did not see an actual cut.

You aren't actually allowed to fly there in bad weather, must have been a surprise storm or bad forecast.

Looks like they have done that a few times.

I thought he was doing great too. I wonder why the computer kept calling him a retard.

Good job

even the plane is heard calling the pilot "retard" multiple times 🤪

Thinking? You need a brain to think. Not required to operate a boat, or training and a license either. I love the head shake from the pilot...

Typical behavior from a pleasure craft. Majority of the time they're clueless morons who don't even have their radios on the proper channels. I'd bet money the pilot said over the radio where he was landing on the appropriate channel.

@@grahammonk8013 Jet ski and boat operator here. Yes you do need certification. At minimum a boater safety card recognized with all the states in the US. I got mine in Missouri and got another in California as I moved here. You can operate using one from another state for a short period if you aren't resident in that state. Studying the actual certification does require a brain. The boater in this video is a muppet. With terrible judgement. Don't paint all of us with the same brush.

While I'd call the boat impolite given they could wait like 10 seconds and pass behind, I wouldn't call them a muppet since technically the seaplane has to give way to them.

@@grahammonk8013 Damn sure expressed all the profanities I was thinking in a simple head gesture;

I'll be honest, that approach is challenging in good weather on flight sim 😅

How many are qualified for Lukla?

@@joelmartin2549 That place should be restricted to helicopters.

That 2 less now.😂

Thats absolutely not true

​@@A1AviatorI think they meant certified rather than qualified. You can have the ability but lack the paperwork 🤷

After what that plane said, the flight got canceled! Lol

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Who designed those retarded wipers?

🤣🤣🤣

I hope the chauffeur refuse to fly such a rude aircraft henceforth.

Unless you are watching at a higher res, the line is completely invisible on screen. So a lot of viewers will not be able to see it. @720P the line is very difficult to discern on my monitor. @1080P it's clearly visible.

I can't see it in the film, but you can see it in the still easily enough.

That's a lightning arresting wire and it is not energized. Still not something you want to hit with an aircraft as it means you are really close to the actual power lines which are much heavier. Lucky he hit with the airframe and not the rotors!

Thanks for that info. After watching the video over and over, I couldn’t see the Blackhawk helicopter striking any wire(s)! 🌝

@@krokodyl1927 @ 0:31 and on rewatching it does look like it was a rotor strike that cut the wire if you pause and go frame by frame. Look at the right gear wheel at that time stamp.

,I took that river as runway, until l saw the bridge 😄🤣😄🤣

A good reason why pilots landing there receive special training and certification. Landing on a bridge would be just a little disturbing! Hahaha!

Not to mention the crabbing to the right.

Chinese engines for ya

There wasn’t a visible deceleration,at least not one you could judge with the human eye at this view with the depth of field of the camera,as the other guy points out you could see a yaw to the right quite obviously though.

@@markhepworth you gotta get your eyes checked out bud

@@6z0 Haha of course I do mate,and you need to learn basic physics. 😉

At first I thought he was going to hit the rotors on the wire, then I saw it was the nose of the aircraft and the wire was cut by wire-cutting fixtures installed on modern helicopters for situations just like this.

@@Orca19904 "for situations just like this". That's a very amusingly understated way of referring to this crisis. You must be pilot as they are notorious for glossing over near disasters when talking to their mothers (and other family members). Also, the wire cutters are a "Hail Mary"device if you know what that is 😉

The flailing wire could also have wrapped itself around the tail rotor, or the mast or the landing gear, or the tail boom. How it didn't is a miracle. There's a photo somewhere on the web of a Bell 206 with a static wire spooled up around the mast and control linkages. Somehow, they made it safely to the ground and had the opportunity to take a picture.

Maybe what they mean is that the top line is not a ”power line” because it’s not carrying power? The top line is just a grounding wire connected to the towers ato ground out lightning to protect the actual power lines? Or then they just not seeing it with low resolution 😄

The heli did not hit the power line, it hit the lightning arrestor line that is on top over the power lines. ..

Even on a larger screen it might not show. I had to change my YT resolution to force to a higher one to see it on my 15" laptop.

@@iPelaaja1 Exactly. It's the system neutral.

They don’t need bigger screens, they all need glasses… so do the pilots!

lol, I thought the same thing...

You like a good spanking.....we got it.

Yes, I thought the aircraft was very harsh on the pilot there. No need for that kind of language.

I've ridden high speed accelerating rollercoasters so know what it is like when the acceleration ceases: you feel like you are falling/diving. THAT was disturbing. Point is, this F-18 is going from zero to 145+ in a couple seconds, far more than most of us experience. Whee!

Damn, I had a great response……but you might get mad. 😂😂

Agreed.

The heli did not hit the power line, it hit the lightning arrestor line that is on top over the power lines.

From what I could tell, it never went close to those pylons. It might be some illegal private cable (TV or Ethernet) strung across two trees.

@@a64738 Ah, thanks for the correction.

@@bsathya4 Nope, not private nor illegal, besides it was all over the polish news

ADHD?

Thanks for the time stamp. I finally was able to see it.

I flew Druk Air in and out and it felt pretty uneventful (still a cool thing to experience), but Bhutan itself is absolutely amazing.

Yes, indeed. But most airlines are super-strict about how their pilots operate, laying down all kinds of major and minor procedural rules that they MUST follow. The autopilot timing that you mention is a perfect example of a major one; when a (penalty-free) go-around is justified would be another. A minor one would be forbidding pilots to wave at plane-spotters and spectators when taxiing (because it looks 'unprofessional'🙄). As their every decision and move is monitored and recorded, I suppose they have to comply if they want to keep their job. Delaying engaging the autopilot would probably result in a warning or even disciplinary action being taken. Sadly, there's less and less room for skilled pilots to use their initiative, and flight schools are required to turn out pilots who are excellent at following routines and doing as they're told, rather than people capable of doing what their experience tells them will be best in any given situation. I can understand why airlines want their pilots to follow rules, but with the increasing use of computerised flight systems and 'smart' automation, the role of a commercial pilot is fast becoming that of a machine-minder rather than anything more traditional. I bet a bush-pilot would soon be bored out of his mind at the controls of a big jet. Going by the book is good in that it prevents overconfidence, complacency and the developing of bad habits, but it's bad in that it creates pilots who may lack 'the right stuff' - the ability to adapt and improvise when things don't go exactly according to plan. (In ... my... humble... opinion...🤭)

⁠​⁠​⁠@@EleanorPetersonI’m pretty sure most airlines don’t have the requirements you talk about. My company doesn’t stipulate and I frequently hand fly to around 20,000 feet on departure and on arrival I’ll kick off the autopilot going through 10,000. However, I do see other pilots engage the autopilot rather soon. But that’s their choice and isn’t being pushed by the company. Having said all that, the whole autopilot while losing an engine thing really doesn’t make any difference. So you two are barking up the wrong tree there. Even though I prefer to hand fly, sometimes it’s the safer choice to engage the autopilot. This way it reduces the workload during flight in busy airspace. To forbid waving at spectators is just silly. Especially kids like it. It’s not “unprofessional”. 🙄 Flight schools don’t really “turn out” pilots for airlines either. Flight schools teach you how to fly and don’t give a rats a$$ what airlines want or don’t want. Flight schools train to the test standards that the FAA requires to pass their students. They don’t have time to waste on other things. The only thing I can say is that lately, I see two issues with the younger generation of pilots. 1) they are too focused on their instruments during take off and landing. They don’t look outside anymore, even when the weather is good. Luckily, most airplane manufacturers are trying to fix this with HUDs. 2) too reliant on automation and never try and take the automation away. This isn’t just autopilot as you mentioned, it’s also auto thrust and the use of VNAV. I try to fix this by not letting them use all the automation all the time.

You aren't kidding!

He could have, but the wire was sliced by the rotors. Crew was incredibly lucky

All military helicopters have multiple wire cutters. I am currently active duty Army and a helicopter mechanic.

@@kmin3434 Well that's just raises a significant call for concern because if you are as you claim... Should have noticed that airframe doesn't have any wire cutters.

@Cipher160 what r u talking about? You can't see the cable cutters in the video, they're too small and they're painted the same color as the skin. On a UH-60 there's actually 4 of them. 2 above the cockpit in the center and then 1 in front of each landing gear tire.

@@Cipher160no chance you can tell on that video. Theyblend in on the UH60 and aren’t as prominent as say the Jet Ranger due to the size of the airframe. Highly unlikely it wouldn’t have them, as they are cheap and effective. Not that WSPS would have done much in this case given they were turning steeply at the time.

Bass fishermen NEVER drink beer... ...do they??

It cut it by flying directly into as you can see in the video. Also lol at ‘downdraft’, tf is that?

@@walkie1985 Please tell me the timestamp in the clip at which point the helicopter ran into/cut the powerline.

They seized it from a civilian

Wouldn’t have necessarily downed the helicopter. But certainly a high possibility. Best case they would have had to put it down immediately.

The wire cutters would make light work of power lines given the high tension.

They were ridiculously lucky.

It was nowhere near any airports, the helicopter shouldn't even be flying there, especially not so close and low over the people

You cant do an ILS approach into an airport like that. VFR only.

No use in an ILS localiser if you're only just turning onto it at the threshold of the runway

This airport doesn’t have ILS. But you not seeing antennas isn’t unusual. Most ILS antennas are at the end of the runway, so you wouldn’t see them anyways.

⁠@@brianfunt2619 there are airports with offset localizers. You track at an angle and make a turn off the localizer at the end to line up. That’s not the case here, just giving an example.

@@MeppyManright.

Here's two more words: Helicopter and Polish.

VQPR

@@rtbrtb_dutchy4183 thanks!

Don’t quit your day job.

Don’t quit your day job.