Bucket List achievement: Went helicopter hog hunting! Then my friends tried and the chopper crashed!

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Posted: 1/13/2021 8:30:49 PM EDT

VIDEO: crash is at the end.

We killed 28 hogs and 6 coyotes. Sorry for the upload quality. It was filmed in HD.
Coolest fucking thing I have ever done. Pilot was a former army pilot and very skilled.
My friends were lucky to walk away alive.

Here is the hunting action. Fixed with no banner:

Just hog hunting chopper action!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxsTp1pmh30

Just the crash for all the whiners. No banner, paid the $40 .

Chopper Crash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52YukTQf1dE

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:39:56 PM EDT

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Front fell off.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:41:59 PM EDT

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Nah, back fell off.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:42:04 PM EDT

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That big Movie Maker banner really screws with the video.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:42:52 PM EDT

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FIFY

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:43:46 PM EDT

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They have a way better story to tell

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:44:03 PM EDT

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I bet the back feels differently.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:44:13 PM EDT

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I know. But I am cheap as fuck and didn't want to pay.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:44:14 PM EDT

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Did he have to pay extra for that?

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:44:45 PM EDT

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Really good flying skills. Not much time to react that close to ground.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:44:57 PM EDT

[#10]

Dayum!

Buy that pilot a beer.

I mean a brewery.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:44:59 PM EDT

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They can send the vid to http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2021/01/robinson-r44-ii-n322sh-accident.html?m=1

Once they pilot gives the OK, of course.

Very lucky.

I assume the boom came off with the impact, not self-destructed in flight, because he retained directional control.

With my crummy phone sound, damn near sounded like it threw a frigging rod.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:45:03 PM EDT

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My fear of helicopters isn't irrational!

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:45:21 PM EDT

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Been in a couple of helicopter crashes. I’ll pass.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:45:52 PM EDT

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Ok, that is amazingly weird. I know that airport, town and pilot.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:46:13 PM EDT

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That pilot's reaction time gets me hard. Could have been incredibly worse....

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:46:52 PM EDT

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Damn.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:47:30 PM EDT

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A machine that beats the air around it into submission? Ten thousand parts all moving in opposition to one another?

What could possibly go wrong?

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:48:31 PM EDT

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"We are going to need 3 new pair of underwear"

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:49:05 PM EDT

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Agreed.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:49:46 PM EDT

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The back fell off.

Those choppers have rep for being sketchy.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:50:07 PM EDT

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Worst auto I've seen since flight school. No wonder he couldn't get a job flying anything other than a Robinson!

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:50:41 PM EDT

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The date on the vid says 2016?

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:50:52 PM EDT

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Even the crash was cool.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:51:16 PM EDT

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Engine failure, autorotation landing, main rotor clipped the tail off on impact?

Other then the tail being clipped off that wasn't a bad deadstick. Everybody walked away.
(am not a pilot)

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:52:07 PM EDT

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He was trying to avoid a power line and had to change his plan at the last second. Everyone walked away unhurt so I think he did OK.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:52:26 PM EDT

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Any crash you can walk away from...

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:52:45 PM EDT

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That looked fun as fuck. I'm jealous as hell. Except for the crash part. You can keep that.

Robinson Heli I assume???? It's always a Robinson.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:53:46 PM EDT

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... Interesting

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:54:21 PM EDT

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Maybe camera time is not set correctly.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:54:25 PM EDT

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Yeah, I forgot to change the time stamp on my GoPro.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:54:52 PM EDT

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The back fell off.

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I know. Lived almost under the factory most my life.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:55:23 PM EDT

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That looked fun as fuck. I'm jealous as hell. Except for the crash part. You can keep that.

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Robinson R44

Yeah, afterwards I googled Robinson choppers...

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:56:02 PM EDT

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That's what I was thinking.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:56:42 PM EDT

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Engine failure, autorotation landing, main rotor clipped the tail off on impact?

Other then the tail being clipped off that wasn't a bad deadstick. Everybody walked away.
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Yeah...seeing the droop on the blades, it made itself a bobcat on impact.

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:58:55 PM EDT

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Did they get their money back

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:59:00 PM EDT

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Robinson?

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:59:35 PM EDT

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I went to basic, WOCS, and flight school in OH58Ds with Jacey.

Posted: 1/13/2021 9:00:24 PM EDT

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Not much time to react in a Robbie. Captain did pretty well, all pax survived uninjured, and he kept the aircraft upright. 407 pilot here.

Posted: 1/13/2021 9:01:58 PM EDT

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He didn't charge them.

Posted: 1/13/2021 9:05:37 PM EDT

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Yes, screw that!

I would never get in one of those things...

Posted: 1/13/2021 9:06:21 PM EDT

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R44 and a newish serial number. Ouch.

Doubt it was half way to tbo unless they fly the shit out of it.

Posted: 1/13/2021 9:07:03 PM EDT

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Great story to tell , glad everyone is alive to talk about it

Posted: 1/13/2021 9:09:12 PM EDT

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R44 and a newish serial number. Ouch.

Doubt it was half way to tbo unless they fly the shit out of it.

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Robinson?

R44 and a newish serial number. Ouch.

Doubt it was half way to tbo unless they fly the shit out of it.

Only a little over 200 hrs on the airframe. FAA (or is it NTSB?) has been out. No obvious cause for the engine failure at this point.

Posted: 1/13/2021 9:11:59 PM EDT

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Lol. Clicked on this expecting a balled up Robinson.

Posted: 1/13/2021 9:14:03 PM EDT

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"Muzzle down. Don't shoot the rotor."

Looks like a gas. Bucket list item for sure.

Posted: 1/13/2021 9:14:51 PM EDT

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Thats a pretty common ending with Robinsons.

Posted: 1/13/2021 9:16:29 PM EDT

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Pilot said he only had 200 hours on it and he just got it.
Yeah they have a bad reputation they earned the hard way.
Glad I didn't know it beforehand!