The guy who flew under that bridge inverted also did a Y2K celebration stunt where he flew under every single bridge in Kaunas. I don’t think he did them inverted with four lomcevaks at the end, but still, it’s an impressive feat. Even more impressive is the fact that he didn’t go to jail for it. He’d probably say I’ve been living in the U.S. too long.

Good guess on the sea king crash (next to last video). From what I remember (third- or fourth-hand info only has to be 10% true, remember that…), it was both. It was a capabilities demo (airshow? open house?) and the rotor/tail rotor gave out, and he lost his balance. You can see the busted rotor being pushed around at the end of the crash. Great site! Keep up the good work.

Thanks for the link, Tracy. I looked all over for that analysis of the Fairchild accident. I think it was published on AVweb at one point, but I couldn’t find it there.

I was surprised that a pilot with such poor judgement was allowed to continue flying for the Air Force.

Actually, FYI, Jurgis Kairys is 100% lithuanian, not russian. Jesus, people, is it too hard to memorise that for f***ing thirteen years Lithuania is no more a part of Russia? Lithuanians aren’t even slavic, contrary to popular belief of westerners, they’re baltic.

Thanks for the corrections guys! I’ll fix those.

Sorry. I didn’t know I couldn’t point out mistakes. I won’t do it again. But then again, every major media outlet covering the Iraq war got it wrong too.

CH-46 Sea Knight
http://www.rotorhead.org/military/ch46.asp
Ch-47 Chinook
http://www.rotorhead.org/military/ch47.asp

Great site. Absolutely no mistakes!

:>)

Nah, point away Roger! If I had a dime for every mistake I’ve made in writing, I’d be so busy spending money there’d be no time left for writing about how much money I’d have.

This does not help my fear of flying! But what is strange is that l could fly in the backseat of,say,an F14 OR F15 but not in a passenger jet!

the F15 sound is a hoax , its cut from a lead in section from the Game Loc-On - you fraudsters

Got this info for you on the 2 MiG-29S that hit eachother (the one you comment on that you are unsure of type)

Aircraft Location & Date
Russia - Air Force
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29S
Fairford (FFD / EGVA)
UK - England, July 24, 1993

Remark Photographer

925 A split second after impact! I was following 526 (the upper MiG in the frame) 925 suddenly appeared in the top left hand corner of the view finder so I pressed the button! (Canon A1, Canon FD 100-300L, 1/500th Sec at f 5.6) scanned form Kodak EC100 (Ektachrome 100HC)
Martin Pole

Here is the URL to the still pic: (Not sure if it will stay current as it is a framed page search result)
-Failing that, go to airliners.net and search using ‘crash/disasters etc’ and you will find it…

I was there for that Mig crash at Fairfield. I was walking down the main aisleway and stopped to watch them cross each other. when they hit, everyone, and I mean everyone, soldiers, police, boy scouts and even St Johns ambulance brigade tried to get in on the action. I turned around and walked away from the scene in order to let the American resuce services do their job. Meanwhile the Yank airforce police had to swat away the Boy Scouts etc who thought that they could ‘help’ at the scene.
It seemed that I was the only one walking the other way.
My mate, a Sapper Corporal, did comment that the Russians would do anything to put on a good display.

No, he survived. I don’t even think he was injured.

Seaking Canadian helo crash occurred at the Schenectady airshow in upstate NY. The crew had flown in the day prior and had partied the night prior. The flight crew had positive blood alcohol levels and empty beer cans were found in the wreckage after the crash. There were no fatalities. The survivors were medevac’d to a nearby trauma center. It was in the early 90’s.

the guy with the hughs 300 helicopter never even bothered to read to the instruction manual! Or maybe he’s just horible with a joystick. Hand Eye coordination, god! The russian airsow was cool to watch, though. P.S. The helicopter accident video on the roof did not load and brought me back to a comcast.net page that said it was unavailable.

B, were you being funny? Can’t tell, but in case not, the RC chopper video is not playing in reverse. It would be vacuuming up its own smoke if that was the case. I’ve seen these manouevres at RC flying days; RC choppers just are really freaky.

niiiice
easy now my little chickens ! ! !

Just wondering if anyone knows more information on the Sea Knight Video.

Airplane Crash Videos

This site has scads of airplane crash videos. Be sure to watch a few before you head to the airport next time….

This page gives the story behind the Sea Knight crash video.

I love these “forums”.Lot of opinion, poor on facts. Lot of implied knowledge and yet flunking minimum altitude of intellect.
Everybody is an expert-of course. I am a retired aerospace engineer and pilot in the usa, so I am not that young as to know as much as the young aces. But the symptoms are here: CONSTIPATION OF MIND-DIARRHEA OF THE MOUTH.

How not to land a helicopter

This video may be old news, but I’d never seen it before. A military helicopter tries to land on a ship and, well, fails. Link to 2.6mb WMV file (Thanks, Michael-Anne Rauback!) Along those same JG Ballardian lines, the House of Rapp has a gallery of …

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I saw the wreckage of the Canadian Seaking, just after it happened. It was at the Schenectady County Airshow, back in 1980 or 81 (not early 90s). My dad and I arrived about 30 minutes after the crash, while the fire trucks and ambulances were still at the crash. The Blue Angles flew later that afternoon.

Home page charliehollinger .com fell free to use any videos on my home page , I am flying a bell 47 pretty good videos , (training videos and Misc movies)

Charlie H.Hollinger

This is a very awesome sight. im a private pilot. im surprise at how good the pilot from the 747 is. i tried the approach on my sim i still have the old microsoft fs98 still has that approach. crashed a couple of times then got it right. very hard. i wish there were more sights like this and i wished you had some more vids.

This is the worst site ever.

Ah no, just kiddin, it’s great - but I got your attention! I’ve always been petrified of flying, so I was always afraid to look at clips like these.

However, after my last flight back home to Ireland from Gran Canaria (before we landed, I was pretty sure that the pilot had somehow been switched with his three-year-old son and/or had his arms amputated), I resigned to the fact that there’s nowhere so good in the world that it’s not worth sailing to!

So now I can look at all the clips I like, because I’m never again boarding anything that could potentially become airborne - such as planes, helicopters or large chickens.

Continue to convey thine grooviness, my Aviation Amigos! (oooh I think I might copyright that…)

Aidan

did you see Jurgis at the Avalon International Airshow in Melb Graham? i think that’s what you’re speaking of. easily one of the most skilled pilots of today, and luckily i got it all on tape! the stunts he pulled were out of this world, and he even has carpet in his hanger!

also the night R/C chopper display was awe inspiring. i had no idea of the capabilities of those things!

- Jay Mac (aspiring hornet pilot)

Re: the Farnborough DeHavilland Buffalo crash in 1984-

“The only accident at Farnborough thus far that Richey has witnessed was the injury-free de Havilland Buffalo prang in 1984. “John [Blake] was commentating, and as the aeroplane began its approach he said, ‘Now ladies and gentlemen I want you to watch this landing. It’s going to be spectacular, a show-stopper.’ John soon turned to me and said he had a feeling he wished he’d never said that. He was right. In it went, and some major bits and pieces fell off.” When the wreckage came to rest, the hatch in the roof of the cockpit opened and a head appeared, slowly surveying the scene to see what was left of the airplane.

There was more, according to Richey’s memory of the mishap. “Allegedly, HM’s Customs and Excise turned up at the de Havilland chalet later that day with a bill for permanent importation of goods, since they weren’t going to be taking the aircraft home to Canada. That evening, I heard the operator of one of two big cranes, summoned to remove the scattered pieces of Buffalo, ask his mate, ‘Hey, Fred, you want a wing or a leg?’” Link.

“On the flip-side, by all current agreed laws of physics, the stealth bomber - which incorporates no tailplane configuration in it’s design, is a modern miracle and technically should not fly at all!”

Complete and utter rubbish. Perhaps high school level physics and a simplistic understanding of flight makes it seem like a miracle, but I assure you that technically the B2 should fly. Do you think some crazy engineers woke up one day and thought “by jove, perhaps if we construct a flying wing it will fly itself?”. The germans were experimenting with flying wings in WWII. Please keep your sensationalistic and unfounded comments to yourself.

The Military Helicopter crash was Canadian Military Sea King. The cause was not a mechanical failure or pilot error and it was not an auto rotation. The cause of the crash was a rare aerodynamic effect called “settling of power.” In extremely rare circumstances, the rotor downwash forces outwards and upwards and then back down through the rotor system again. In effect, the helicopter “sucks” itself down to the ground. If ever you see a helicopter landing in the snow or dust you can often see the effect of the snow blowing outwards and upwards. This is almost the same effect. The more collective the pilot pulls, the worse the condition gets. If the pilot is lucky enough to recognize the condition, the way out of this problem is to push forward on the cyclic control and disturb the aero effect.

I don’t know about anyone else but from the look of the fireball from the automated airbus i don’t see how the pilot lived to make a claim

I was at the RAF Fairford Air Tattoo in 1993 when the two MIGs collided in mid air, we were walking up to the main gates literally underneath the accident when it happened. The MIG which cut across the swooping one’s flightpath hit the ground at the end of the runway IIRC, the pilot got up and walked away once he’d landed. The MIG which was left then spiralled for what seemed ages, it was a trully sureal thing to watch! It then hit the field some miles away right next to our caravan rally!

As someone has already mentioned, everyone seemed to run towards the aircraft which hit the runway, all the MP’s were running towards the field! We tried to get back to our caravan but the whole area was surrounded by US MP’s. All photgraphy equipment was taken, the press were asking everyone for video’s etc. When we were eventually let back on the site, the area where the aircraft landed was guarded for several days afterwards. Anyone nearby was questioned, no photography permitted etc. Not much left of either aircraft, but both pilots seemed okay. All in all, it was a good airshow, lol!

Great clips.

As a military chopper pilot I have some insight into two of the movie clips above.

First: The clip with the JR towing the boat was actually a stunt shoot that went bad. The fact that the boat immediately starts it’s engines to help out is a pretty obvious give-away. This doesn’t excuse the pilot from his stupidity though.

Second: The Sea King crash is definitely a Canadian Sea King that Crashed at an airshow in upper New York State. According to a Flight Safety video released by the Canadian Forces(for training purposes) the cause of the crash was Vortex Ring State and had absolutely nothing to do with alcohol(contrary to one comment above).
VRS is a phenomenon that is still a bit of a mystery and is often confused with ’settling with power.’ VRS can occur under the following circumstances:
1/ High rate of Descent
2/ Steep Approach Angle
3/ Low Airspeed
4/ Partial Power
The Sea King was in a high hover from which the pilot let the aircraft settle thus meeting all of the above criteria. There are in theory 3 ways to recover from this if you realize what’s going on before it’s too late:
1/ Power out with collective in the early stages if power is available. (this may cause some controversy amounst some helo pilots)
2/ Forward cyclic to ‘dive’ out into clean air and fly away
3/ Enter an autorotation(thus eliminating partial power)
The above SeaKing had insufficient power for 1 and he couldn’t fly out or auto out due to the vicinity of the crowd at the airshow.
In the end a helo pilot can learn a lot from this example of VRS.
The only question left is what was the pilot doing in the high hover with a heavy aircraft on a hot day in the first place?

Anyways, that’s my 2 cents(Canadian).
Cheers,

Ranger 69er

On the H-3 accident, it was posted that it lost a tail rotor authority. This is NOT true because if you lose tailrotor authority you will go into an alomost uncontrollable spin. The tail section broke off during impact, you will see that when you slow the video down before impact. Also usually during autorotations the pilots would have the wheels down in case they had problems, in this case the wheels were not down. You can see them up if you slow the video down right before impact. Not to say they were not shooting auto’s with the wheels up, anything is possible, but I would venture to say that they could have encountered a dual engine flame-out which is not uncommon in the T-58″s.

First of all, ´scuse me if my gramma isn’t right- english is not even my second language… Second: great site!!!

Thanks for the informations of the clips, I´ve been watching them many times without any knowledge of the :)surcomstances:)
Anyway, I´d like to know if the crew of the Sea Knight was hurt? It seems to me that the wreckage disappears into the ocean right away…Do you have any info on this?
I´d also like to make a tribute to you guys, who are interested in aviation/aviation crashes: From swedish tv a clip of a recent accident, one of the passengers was celebrating his 100 birthday, everyone survived:
http://svt.se/content/1/c6/40/98/01/helikopter2.asx

the man in last video who flyies under the bridge is Jurgis Kairys.in 2000 he flyed under all bridges in kithuania.it was great thing

Dear,Its a very nice site,and i think you have to update it from time to time.
Wish you a good luck.

Capt.Mohannad Ballal
Dahla Aviation Compane

Regarding: “Anyway, I´d like to know if the crew of the Sea Knight was hurt? It seems to me that the wreckage disappears into the ocean right away…Do you have any info on this?” from franke — June 23, 2005 @ 8:38 am

My understanding was that the entire crew was lost at sea, literally. No bodies were recovered.

I don’t think I’d venture into missile stuff. Not that there’s anything wrong with it. But this site is more geared toward general aviation. This crash page is just a single entry I made one day, just for the heck of it.

If you do a Google search, however, I’d bet you could find some decent footage and information on unsuccessful missile launches.

Great site!!! I laughed so hard at the moron flying the helicopter without any flying experience. It was like he was trying to figure out how to play a playstation game without reading the booklet, as i have done many times. At least i wasn’t putting myself in danger. Needless to say, i was glad to find out the moron wasn’t hurt.

The guy that flew under the bridge received all special permits for such event. The bridge was insured, the plane and he too.
And we do have minimum safe altitude rules in Lithuania (we live near Baltic sea and we prefer the term Baltic States instead of former soviet republics (Soviet Union sucked and we were part of it not by our free will. anyway, thats why we first broke away from it))
The same happened when J.Kairys flew under the bridges of other Lithuanian city (it was Vilnius, not Kaunas btw)

Hi ABOUT THE F-15 CRASH VIDEO

The plane it crashes with int an F-22?? pass the video slowly and check it.

Anyway, I think the video is original and it hasnt been splitted.

The game the next person makes reference is “Lock on” ” modern air combat” a fantastic game.

bye bye
/////the videos in this section ar amazing\\\\\\\\

NTSB Identification: LAX87LA190 .
The docket is stored on NTSB microfiche number 35617.
14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Sunday, April 26, 1987 in RUBIDOUX, CA
Probable Cause Approval Date: 2/17/1989
Aircraft: HUGHES 269B, registration: N101DN
Injuries: 1 Minor.

A HUGHES 269B WENT OUT OF CONTROL AND COLLIDED WITH THE GROUND DURING A T/O TO A HOVER. THE PILOT HAD PURCHASED THE AIRCRAFT RECENTLY AND WAS LEARNING TO FLY IT. HE WAS SCHEDULED FOR HIS FIRST FLIGHT LESSON ON THE DAY OF THE ACCIDENT. THE CFI REPORTED THAT HE HAD TOLD THE STUDENT PILOT TO WAIT FOR HIM AND NOT TO TOUCH ANYTHING. WHILE WAITING FOR THE FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR, THE NON ROTORCRAFT RATED STUDENT PILOT STARTED THE AIRCRAFT, RAN IT UP TO FULL RPM, AND THEN BEGAN TO INCREASE THE COLLECTIVE PITCH CONTROL. THE HELICOPTER CLIMBED VERTICALLY TO A HIGH HOVER AND THE PILOT LOST CONTROL. THE PILOT STATED THAT HE HAD NOT RELEASED THE CYCLIC FRICTION BEFORE BECOMING AIRBORNE. THE PILOT INDICATED HE HAD ABOUT500 HOURS OF FLIGHT TIME BUT DID NOT SPECIFY THE TYPE AND NO SUBSTANTIATION OF THE TIME COULD BE MADE.

The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows:

DIRECTIONAL CONTROL..NOT MAINTAINED..DUAL STUDENT
JUDGMENT..POOR..DUAL STUDENT
VERTICAL TAKEOFF..UNCONTROLLED..DUAL STUDENT
INSTRUCTIONS,WRITTEN/VERBAL..DISREGARDED..DUAL STUDENT

The second to last appears to be the Seaking crash at Schenectady, NY in 1992 (I think that was the year) if so here are the details. I was working the Medical clinic at the home base of the SeaKing (Shearwater Nova Scotia - Canada) at the time and was required to pull medical files of all the aircrew.
The aircrew was at the airshow on the runway, they had performed a basic fly-by then parked on the side of the runway. The Air cews state that they were asked to move the aircraft as it was blocking the movement of other aircraft (this was not proven or disproven)
As the aircraft took off and hovered at a low altitude creating a situation where the air pushed down by the rotors is deflected out and upwards by the ground and then back into the top of the rotors. This creates a suction effect (I don’t know the technical term for the effect) and the aircraft literaly gets sucked into the ground.
I don’t remember the full complemnt on board, but there were at least 3 souls on board, Pilot, Co-Pilot, and a flight engineer or load-master who was sitting in on the edge of the loading door without any restraints (seatbelts or monkey tail) They were all taken to local hospitals, treated and returned to Canada.
Like I said, it was over 10 years ago so I don’t recall all the details, and being a medic I didn’t understand all the technical aspects of the crash investigation.

To set the record straight. The Sea King Crash video is from an Air Show in Schenectady NY, on 4 Aug 1991. The Sea king was
tasked as a static display but due to a requirement to move the helo during the show and a lull in the show schedule, it was asked to do a brief demo while airborne. The crew were in the high hover (300ft) and allowed the aircraft to sink causing it to enter VORTEX RING STATE (look it up). The Ac was unable to arrest the descent and the Aircraft impacted the ground. AC, FE and Technician sustained major injuries with Cojo and Navigator sustaining minor injuries. Post accident investigation did not uncover any alcohaul related activity.

it must be my imagination,or does jurgis kairys plane bear a resemblance to a radial engined mustang?

Hi! Watching these video push all aviators that love aviation to learn about what happen, and lead attitude and behaviour to save others lives and themselves!
We can learn more about if we watching more videos!
All people that know about what is showing here, should to say something about!

Are you saying that the B-52 refueled while inverted? 120 degrees of bank is 30 degrees BEYOND knife edge. The aircraft would refuel while upside down?

Even an Extra 300 flown by an accomplished aerobatic pilot would have a hard time maintaining that attitude with the requisite level of precision for any length of time.

LOL what funny videos

Good grief. that Mig crash is probably one of the most amazing video’s I’ve ever seen. I don’t understand how those guys got out of it, but it’s pretty cool that they did.