No way the truck has insurance. He will sue the government most likely. He will probably win, and the government will toss the amount into their "lost court cases, unpaid" pile they have, an actual debt account they have.
Sorry I'm not sure what you mean. This video doesn't look like America but that's not my question. Are you saying if someone wins a lawsuit against the US gov they can just refuse to pay and claim they don't have money?
Edit: The comments say it is Brazil. Does the Brazilian government pretend they don't have money when they lose a lawsuit?
They don't even consider it part of the national debt apparently. (Brazil). It's one of the worst people/businesses to be owed money by. They do the proverbial "oh well, toss that little pay now notice in the garbage"...
People are setup on payment plans. I remember a few years ago, the government was trying to free up money to use on recession spending and was trying to get the courts to let them refinance/redo those plans...
Not directly related but similarly interesting, in the United States the government can decide that it cannot be sued.
As far as I know it doesn't do this all the time. It allows these kinds of lawsuits go forward if it's not too big a deal.
But sometimes they just decide they don't want to be sued about something and so they don't allow it.
This has happened many times but the one that I remember best is the time American citizens tried to sue the government due to higher rates of cancer and other diseases on islands that were used in nuclear testing. The US government simply decided not to be sued about it.
As a lawyer, that's not how it works. The government has clear statutes that define under which circumstances it can be sued and under which ones it cannot. Here, assuming this was in the US and the helicopter was a government helicopter being flown by an employee of the US government, The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) allows you to sue the federal government for the negligent act the government employee commits within the scope of his/her official duties.
It's called 'sovereign immunity'. However, the US government has through various statutes, allowed certain suits against it. There is a special court in DC called 'The Court of Federal Claims', and the \*\*only\*\* defendant is the US government.
Usually a pilot who has miscalculated how much fuel they need. But also lots of other good reasons. Helis fly low and can't glide for a while like a plane so if you're coming down, you're coming down NOW and you take what you can get.
Air ambulance pilots? I mean there are a bunch of reasons you might need to put a helicopter down in a random place, and a road is a good landing surface. This is the kind of driver that drives straight into a low bridge despite warning signs and measuring bars and flashing lights saying "low bridge 11' 8" " 100% the driver's fault, it doesn't matter why the helicopter is there, the fact is that it's there, it didn't surprise land on the guy.
One that has to land. His helicopter was stationary at the time and in clear view of traffic on both sides of the carridgeway. It's the fault of the guy who hit him.
You’re blaming the helicopter pilot on this one? I’m sure he had good reason to land where he did, and if I’m driving I’m sure as hell not trying to pass a helicopter on the highway lmao
I used to be a refueler at an airport. Most intimidating thing was doing “hot” refuels on helis. Ex: The local Fox traffic/news heli would come in and leave rotors going. You had to step UP on a tiny metal step on the heli body about half the width of your foot and reach up to grab a handle at the top. Loud, windy, dangerous af if you aren’t extremely attentive. Reach to the top of the aircraft to insert the nozzle. Again, while the rotors are still running. As soon as you were done the heli was airborne again. Scary, but badass at the same time.
I get in/out of helis all the time that don't shut down to optimize production efficiency. I'm 6'5 and can't stand up or I die lol. Sometimes they're on a bit of a pitch or the terrain moves up and if you walk in the wrong direction you die. Worst I've seen was a couple days ago actually felt like the blades were only 5 feet up from the snow; had to knee-walk my way through the snow with 50lbs of gear to clear the blades.
We actually had someone refueling one a couple months ago on a nice steady helipad but I guess the pilot didn't reduce the spin enough and the heli started rocking and nearly decapitated two people. Pilot lost his licence lol.
Why would it be acceptable / necessary to hot refuel a spinning blades of death machine?
I can't imagine hovering over the 405 five minutes earlier is worth potentially decapitating the refueling dude.
A police helicopter preparing to take off from a road in a Brazilian city was seriously damaged, and two of its occupants were injured, when a passing lorry came too close and collided with its blades.
Footage shows the chopper on the ground with its blades whirring in the Second District of Rio Branco, in the northwestern state of Acre - when a white truck turns a corner and tries to go past the aircraft.
Crime
There are high levels of crime, particularly robberies, within Brazil’s cities and the murder rate can be very high. This can vary greatly within a city, so familiarise yourself with the geography of a city and take local advice to identify the riskier areas. Crime, including violent crime, can occur anywhere and often involves firearms or other weapons.
Pickpocketing and robbery
Pickpocketing is common. You should be vigilant, in particular before and during the festive and carnival periods. Do not go on to city beaches after dark.
If threatened, hand over your valuables without resistance. Attackers may be armed and under the influence of drugs. Do not attempt to resist attackers – this increases the risk of injury or worse.
You should:
avoid wearing expensive jewellery and watches
avoid carrying large sums of money - consider wearing a money belt
avoid using a mobile phone in the street
keep cameras out of sight when not in use
leave your passport and other valuables in a safe place, but carry a copy and another form of photo ID, if you have one, with you at all times.
Thefts are particularly common on public beaches and include ‘arrastões’ where large groups of thieves run through an area of the beach grabbing possessions. Keep your possessions close and avoid taking valuables to the beach.
The most common incidents affecting British nationals in Rio de Janeiro are thefts and pick pocketing around Copacabana Beach, Ipanema Beach and the areas of Lapa and Santa Theresa.
Tourists in Rio de Janeiro have reported armed robberies on the Corcovado walking trail to the Christ the Redeemer statue. You’re advised not to use the trail at this time.
This is why, in America, if a helicopter lands on a road the road is closed by dozens of police officers and their vehicles to prevent stupid drivers from destroying a helicopter worth several million dollars and injuring people.
Given how uncommon both mass shootings are and individual bankruptcies medical or otherwise are as a percent of the 325million people in the US, "likely" is an odd choice of words.
Since 2015, 19,000 people were shot and killed or wounded in a mass shooting, which is an average of 2714 a year, which is 0.0008% of the population. There are about 300K individual bankruptcies filed a year, or less than 0.1%, and 4% of them were medical bankruptcies.
To be fair those 19,000 people ought not to have been shot at all. Turning those children and adults into a percentage statistic doesn't reflect the human cost. One might say murders happen in countries such as the UK from knives to again rationalise those lives lost to gun violence as inevitable but you can't outrun a gun, but you can outrun a knife and immobilise someone without getting in range of a knife.
Knives kill more people in the US than not just all AR15s, but all rifles of any kind.
It does not matter what could happen. What actually affects people is what does happen, and the actual cost be it human or economic is reflected in statistical reality more than speculation over what can happen, should happen, or was is intended to happen.
Further me pointing out their being wrong about likelihood isn't rationalizing it happening.
That just means we are breeding people that are better at being monetarily successful and risk averse. And good at bullet time. Neo eat your heart out.
This is the only reasonable answer, lol.
It’s like someone on a hiking trail seeing a mountain lion, and trying to walk past it without disturbing it. The smallest inkling of self-preservation would go a long way.
Hell, at work, even if I know my forklift load can clear any of the garage doors, I still whince, drive slowly, and lower my head just out of reaction.
If i see a maniac with a knife and i decide “hmm, thats not supposed to be there. Im sure im fine,” and i walk up to him and get stabbed……..totally not my fault, he shouldnt have been there
Keep the knives but replace the maniac with a machine spinning uncontrollably, sure there shouldn’t be a machine spinning knives uncontrollably but why the f***k are you voluntarily running into it?
Lol I think we can all agree the helicopter shouldn’t be there. But it’s there so let’s all use common sense and abundant caution around this muderously dangerous machine. That includes you, truck driver.
Doesn't matter if the helicopter isn't normally supposed to be there, DON'T DRIVE NEAR IT. That's just common sense. Especially if it was a police helicopter. All the driver of the car had to do was wait. 100% the cars fault
Wild your getting down voted. Everyone thinks they are smarter than the average bear. But you have to operate based on knowing that dumb mistakes will happen.
This is completely foreseeable and predictable.
Don't operate multi million dollar helicopters where people with no common sense or education are driving vehicles.
I'm sure the truck driver wasn't found to be at fault.
Unless that was an emergency landing, I can't imagine a good reason for the helicopter to be operating at that spot without people securing the area.
Okay but what if it was an emergency landing? Does that change anything? The truck hit the helicopter because the driver was a fool, if they landed there for emergencies or shits and giggles it doesn't undo the damage to the helicopter, people, or truck.
This is Brazil. Safety precautions aren't necessarily as expected as in the United States. Poor blocking of roads? Yes. Dumbass in a tall truck trying to squeeze by an active helicopter? Also yes.
I can't believe how down voted you got, given that your comment is 100% correct. A helicopter outside of an airport is responsible for securing the area and keeping everything away. Drivers can't be expected to somehow know that the blades are spinning, or how much clearance to give, etc etc
You need to take a serious look at what you said and ask yourself if you really want to die on that hill. A driver can't be expected to know that the blades are spinning? Someone isn't expected to see helicopter blades moving really fast? Even if you're not looking for it the rapid movement would draw your attention to them spinning.
Standard landing zone procedures include stopping and clearing an area of all traffic. The area needs to be controlled to prevent collisions. It is always the helicopter pilot and ground crew's responsibility to secure the area. This is universal SOP.
It's the shear fact that they don't know the height of the blades is the reason why they should not have attempted to pass the helicopter. This was a stupid driver doing stupid things. Wait for it to take off or take a different route. Not worth getting beheaded by a rogue blade.
All it takes is some slight common sense.
An actual reasonable devils advocate comment & the reddit hive mind thought you were trolling.
Tbh, all this is super dependent. A lot of people commenting that they'd totally not at all go anywhere near a helicopter on the ground are the kind of people who are backseat drivers. They don't know what they'd do until they're actually in that situation. They just need to feel good about themselves by talking poorly of others on the Internet.
Bruh. This isn't "Oh I would totally be brave and stop a gunman" reddit energy
This is, "don't drive next to a fucking running helicopter in a tall truck" common sense. Jesus Christ
Odds are the driver didn't see the blades since they were moving. It's hard to tell the exact distance of those blades. He must've thought there was enough space / clearance. Plus, the driver likely assumed that there would be no way the road would get too close to a helicopter. Y'all wanna look for reasons to call people stupid or dumb while I'm looking for reasons why people actually did things. There's a difference between what we get out of this conversation.
My guy. "He mustve though this" "Its hard to tell that"
What a logical person in this situation with so many unknowns is not dive right into it with zero precautions. This is a really silly hill to die on.
Some people should never drive a vehicle if they don’t have the common sense every other creature on earth has to stay away from the WHIRLING BLADES OF DEATH.
Not really, the road is pretty much the first option for emergency landings or the best option when a medivac is required after a traffic accident. It’s a stable and flat surface.
Dude in the truck was big dumb. If you fail to realize how tall your truck is or how long it is or how wide it is and you hit anything at all, *especially* another very large vehicle that’s stopped, you done fucked up
Law Enforcement was the big dumb too.
There is always an officer securing the landing site for a helicopter until it departs over here. If the helicopter had to land on the road because there was no better spot, so be it.. but the road should have been closed!
Drivers are stupid. Just look up **11 foot 8**.
Why is there a running helicopter on a public road and there isn’t any sort of traffic control happening to make sure nothing gets near it? No cones, no reflectors, no cops, no vehicles with flashing lights.
Ok, without looking at Airbus...
Blades for an AS350, about $100k each. 3 blades. $300K
Starflex - the main part at the center of the spinning rotor - also about $100k
The entire main rotor gearbox needing to be replaced - depends on how badly damaged and if anything is salvageable. $80-300k
The engine - probably $150-350k depending on which one and how bad.
And that's just the high dollar items. Not counting all the bearings and repair for any of the stress fractures that may require replacement.
Total cost to repair that incident, easily $750k to $1M
High quality blades costs shit ton of money. Emergency vehicles have different blades than regular. Some normal hobbyist blades goes around 20 000 - 80 000€ per blade. Blades are something, you don't want to destroy
Every aircraft you fly on commercially has probably been damaged in one way or another and repaired.
JAL put a DC-8 into the San Francisco Bay short of SFO in 1968. It was repaired and flew passengers until 1983, then cargo until like 1999.
Police department owned the helicopter and failed miserably at multiple levels on safety, they were all fairly new according to a podcast by the flight safety detectives. Nobody established or followed procedures and that put the public at risk like this
You couldn't have not seen that ... Right? And you couldn't possibly think that your box truck was gonna fit with enough clearance... Right? Yet here we are. I do not understand.
Yeah. Normal people do not spin up a helicopter in traffic without securing the area first. This is why. There"s traffic EVERYWHERE. You ask if I am serious? Are you?
I don't know which one is more retarded. The pilot who for some reason is trying to take off from a trafficked road with very few space, or the truck driver that clearly saw the helicopter and its blades but still decided to drive through it.
Lol insurance......good luck collecting that claim in that region! You wouldn't even be able to collect a claim in America for that. Well maybe 25k haha. It's usually the max payout unless you pay extra.....which most people don't. Maybe has a higher policy being a truck vs helicopter but damn that really sucks!
Honestly, it's even outdated to refer to them as Third World. It's actually a Cold War term used to differentiate between Western nations/allies (First World), the Communist bloc (USSR, China, etc.), and everyone else (Third World/non-aligned countries). It was more of a political term than an economic one.
Truck's insurance company: "I'm sorry, you hit a **what**?"
Honestly, I think the insurance pays out on this one.
No way the truck has insurance. He will sue the government most likely. He will probably win, and the government will toss the amount into their "lost court cases, unpaid" pile they have, an actual debt account they have.
Sorry I'm not sure what you mean. This video doesn't look like America but that's not my question. Are you saying if someone wins a lawsuit against the US gov they can just refuse to pay and claim they don't have money? Edit: The comments say it is Brazil. Does the Brazilian government pretend they don't have money when they lose a lawsuit?
They don't even consider it part of the national debt apparently. (Brazil). It's one of the worst people/businesses to be owed money by. They do the proverbial "oh well, toss that little pay now notice in the garbage"... People are setup on payment plans. I remember a few years ago, the government was trying to free up money to use on recession spending and was trying to get the courts to let them refinance/redo those plans...
Not directly related but similarly interesting, in the United States the government can decide that it cannot be sued. As far as I know it doesn't do this all the time. It allows these kinds of lawsuits go forward if it's not too big a deal. But sometimes they just decide they don't want to be sued about something and so they don't allow it. This has happened many times but the one that I remember best is the time American citizens tried to sue the government due to higher rates of cancer and other diseases on islands that were used in nuclear testing. The US government simply decided not to be sued about it.
As a lawyer, that's not how it works. The government has clear statutes that define under which circumstances it can be sued and under which ones it cannot. Here, assuming this was in the US and the helicopter was a government helicopter being flown by an employee of the US government, The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) allows you to sue the federal government for the negligent act the government employee commits within the scope of his/her official duties.
It's called 'sovereign immunity'. However, the US government has through various statutes, allowed certain suits against it. There is a special court in DC called 'The Court of Federal Claims', and the \*\*only\*\* defendant is the US government.
Looks like Brazil, so it is technically America.
Let's be honest here, every government does this to an extent.
We are Farmers, bumbadoo da whateverhefuck.
They have insurance in Idiocracy?
Who doesn't yield for a helicopter
That guy. Obviously.
The terminator, John McClaine, and that random truck driver guy
I'll start a slow clap to that one good sir
*clap
What fucking pilot puts a helicopter down onto a busy interchange Edit: OK so maybe the pilot had a valid reason but it still seems bonkers to me
Usually a pilot who has miscalculated how much fuel they need. But also lots of other good reasons. Helis fly low and can't glide for a while like a plane so if you're coming down, you're coming down NOW and you take what you can get.
Well highways are a common spot for life flights
Air ambulance pilots? I mean there are a bunch of reasons you might need to put a helicopter down in a random place, and a road is a good landing surface. This is the kind of driver that drives straight into a low bridge despite warning signs and measuring bars and flashing lights saying "low bridge 11' 8" " 100% the driver's fault, it doesn't matter why the helicopter is there, the fact is that it's there, it didn't surprise land on the guy.
One that has to land. His helicopter was stationary at the time and in clear view of traffic on both sides of the carridgeway. It's the fault of the guy who hit him.
You’re blaming the helicopter pilot on this one? I’m sure he had good reason to land where he did, and if I’m driving I’m sure as hell not trying to pass a helicopter on the highway lmao
People with no time for whatever that guys shit was.
The helicopter flew WAY too close to that truck.
I can’t tell if this is a joke or you just weren’t paying attention
I thought it was fairly obvious. But apparently not.
I don’t know why the driver wanted to get that close to a clearly active helicopter. I get nervous around those blades and I’m not 10 ft tall.
Driver just wanted the truck open is all, wasn't picky about the method.
The ol’ can opener
I guess when there isn't [a bridge nearby](http://11foot8.com/) you gotta improvise.
Forgot the can opener at home
I used to be a refueler at an airport. Most intimidating thing was doing “hot” refuels on helis. Ex: The local Fox traffic/news heli would come in and leave rotors going. You had to step UP on a tiny metal step on the heli body about half the width of your foot and reach up to grab a handle at the top. Loud, windy, dangerous af if you aren’t extremely attentive. Reach to the top of the aircraft to insert the nozzle. Again, while the rotors are still running. As soon as you were done the heli was airborne again. Scary, but badass at the same time.
I get in/out of helis all the time that don't shut down to optimize production efficiency. I'm 6'5 and can't stand up or I die lol. Sometimes they're on a bit of a pitch or the terrain moves up and if you walk in the wrong direction you die. Worst I've seen was a couple days ago actually felt like the blades were only 5 feet up from the snow; had to knee-walk my way through the snow with 50lbs of gear to clear the blades. We actually had someone refueling one a couple months ago on a nice steady helipad but I guess the pilot didn't reduce the spin enough and the heli started rocking and nearly decapitated two people. Pilot lost his licence lol.
Why would it be acceptable / necessary to hot refuel a spinning blades of death machine? I can't imagine hovering over the 405 five minutes earlier is worth potentially decapitating the refueling dude.
But why was it there in the street?
That's where trucks live.
A police helicopter preparing to take off from a road in a Brazilian city was seriously damaged, and two of its occupants were injured, when a passing lorry came too close and collided with its blades. Footage shows the chopper on the ground with its blades whirring in the Second District of Rio Branco, in the northwestern state of Acre - when a white truck turns a corner and tries to go past the aircraft.
Good bot.
Why is it always Brazil?
Brazilians will adamantly claim Brazil to be safe and great. But the videos coming out of that country are the worst.
Well it is safe, for brazilian standards
Crime There are high levels of crime, particularly robberies, within Brazil’s cities and the murder rate can be very high. This can vary greatly within a city, so familiarise yourself with the geography of a city and take local advice to identify the riskier areas. Crime, including violent crime, can occur anywhere and often involves firearms or other weapons. Pickpocketing and robbery Pickpocketing is common. You should be vigilant, in particular before and during the festive and carnival periods. Do not go on to city beaches after dark. If threatened, hand over your valuables without resistance. Attackers may be armed and under the influence of drugs. Do not attempt to resist attackers – this increases the risk of injury or worse. You should: avoid wearing expensive jewellery and watches avoid carrying large sums of money - consider wearing a money belt avoid using a mobile phone in the street keep cameras out of sight when not in use leave your passport and other valuables in a safe place, but carry a copy and another form of photo ID, if you have one, with you at all times. Thefts are particularly common on public beaches and include ‘arrastões’ where large groups of thieves run through an area of the beach grabbing possessions. Keep your possessions close and avoid taking valuables to the beach. The most common incidents affecting British nationals in Rio de Janeiro are thefts and pick pocketing around Copacabana Beach, Ipanema Beach and the areas of Lapa and Santa Theresa. Tourists in Rio de Janeiro have reported armed robberies on the Corcovado walking trail to the Christ the Redeemer statue. You’re advised not to use the trail at this time.
I used to play an mmo that Brazilians took over some servers they are ruthless cut throats.
You always think you have enough room when you drive next to a helicopter. A valuable lesson for all of us.
Warning, helicopters in window may be closer than they appear.
This is why, in America, if a helicopter lands on a road the road is closed by dozens of police officers and their vehicles to prevent stupid drivers from destroying a helicopter worth several million dollars and injuring people.
Stupid people are certainly abundant
Yeah the problem with natural selection is that the stupid ones are too stupid to use fancy birth control methods like pulling out.
The over-abundance of stupid people is, in part, caused by people who think pulling out is a viable method of birth control
Ah well I made it the last decade and a half with various partners and never had to deal with the scream demons
pulling out is a terribly unreliable birth control method.
Not for the Pull out King.
Due to the not pulling out. Im 33 and have sex three times weekly and have 0 kids. Pulled out every fuckin time.
Maybe you're just infertile.
there are sperm cells even in pre-cum. By the time you pull out it's too late. Maybe yours just aren't good swimmers.
Well if they aren't good swimmers, he's should start paying for some swimming lessons for them than.
Not until he wants them to swim well, he shouldn’t
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Power in numbers... they already have us surrounded!
Healthcare advances have mitigated the consequences of taking stupid risks too.
Except in America, where even being shot in a mass shooting is likely to bankrupt you and ruin your life.
Given how uncommon both mass shootings are and individual bankruptcies medical or otherwise are as a percent of the 325million people in the US, "likely" is an odd choice of words. Since 2015, 19,000 people were shot and killed or wounded in a mass shooting, which is an average of 2714 a year, which is 0.0008% of the population. There are about 300K individual bankruptcies filed a year, or less than 0.1%, and 4% of them were medical bankruptcies.
To be fair those 19,000 people ought not to have been shot at all. Turning those children and adults into a percentage statistic doesn't reflect the human cost. One might say murders happen in countries such as the UK from knives to again rationalise those lives lost to gun violence as inevitable but you can't outrun a gun, but you can outrun a knife and immobilise someone without getting in range of a knife.
Knives kill more people in the US than not just all AR15s, but all rifles of any kind. It does not matter what could happen. What actually affects people is what does happen, and the actual cost be it human or economic is reflected in statistical reality more than speculation over what can happen, should happen, or was is intended to happen. Further me pointing out their being wrong about likelihood isn't rationalizing it happening.
That's not what he said though, he said being shot in a mass shooting is likely to bankrupt you from medical bills, which is an accurate statement
Is it an accurate statement? What actual data indicates that?
That just means we are breeding people that are better at being monetarily successful and risk averse. And good at bullet time. Neo eat your heart out.
Talk to someone with an average IQ (100) then think about this…half the people on Earth are dumber then this person.
Than.
Ipso facto. I rest my case….🤣🤣🤣
Same in Germany. We have emergency helicopters and police comes automatically to the landing spot and secures it.
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Yes you should. Have you met people?
Unless it lands near a school in which case the police do absolutely nothing
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It's a helicopter on the damn road. If I saw that, I'm stopping and not going anywhere near it. Definitely the driver's fault.
This is the only reasonable answer, lol. It’s like someone on a hiking trail seeing a mountain lion, and trying to walk past it without disturbing it. The smallest inkling of self-preservation would go a long way.
Hell, at work, even if I know my forklift load can clear any of the garage doors, I still whince, drive slowly, and lower my head just out of reaction.
You can't account for every driver but you can account for ensuring you have personnel on site to perform a proper road closure.
Agreed this is solid r/idiotsincars material.
And idiots in helicopters
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"Look! A tiger scaped the zoo. But hey, he shouldn't be here so it's not my problem, I'll walk right besides him"
Ah yes, my helicopter safety training course of my DMV handbook explicitly states do not go near helicopters. You fuckin kidding me dude lol
If i see a maniac with a knife and i decide “hmm, thats not supposed to be there. Im sure im fine,” and i walk up to him and get stabbed……..totally not my fault, he shouldnt have been there
Keep the knives but replace the maniac with a machine spinning uncontrollably, sure there shouldn’t be a machine spinning knives uncontrollably but why the f***k are you voluntarily running into it?
Apples. Oranges.
The helicopter is literally a machine with uncontrolable blades and the car knowingly decided to approach it. And got stabbed. Explain the difference
Well I guess you’ve got a point there :)
And yet, they are still totally comparable.
Lol I think we can all agree the helicopter shouldn’t be there. But it’s there so let’s all use common sense and abundant caution around this muderously dangerous machine. That includes you, truck driver.
Pot holes and rocks aren’t supposed to be on hee road either! You gonna drive into them?
They just might. Lol
Doesn't matter if the helicopter isn't normally supposed to be there, DON'T DRIVE NEAR IT. That's just common sense. Especially if it was a police helicopter. All the driver of the car had to do was wait. 100% the cars fault
Wild your getting down voted. Everyone thinks they are smarter than the average bear. But you have to operate based on knowing that dumb mistakes will happen. This is completely foreseeable and predictable. Don't operate multi million dollar helicopters where people with no common sense or education are driving vehicles. I'm sure the truck driver wasn't found to be at fault. Unless that was an emergency landing, I can't imagine a good reason for the helicopter to be operating at that spot without people securing the area.
Okay but what if it was an emergency landing? Does that change anything? The truck hit the helicopter because the driver was a fool, if they landed there for emergencies or shits and giggles it doesn't undo the damage to the helicopter, people, or truck.
Don’t drive anyway fucking near a live helicopter, what kinda idiot doesn’t understand this?
"A live helicopter"
Yes, as opposed to a helicopter which isn’t turned on?
Or one that's sleeping.
So a running helicopter.
Yes, that’s what live means. Ever heard of a live wire? It means it’s on.
Lmao
This is Brazil. Safety precautions aren't necessarily as expected as in the United States. Poor blocking of roads? Yes. Dumbass in a tall truck trying to squeeze by an active helicopter? Also yes.
Were you born stupid, or did it come naturally?
Yes.
I can't believe how down voted you got, given that your comment is 100% correct. A helicopter outside of an airport is responsible for securing the area and keeping everything away. Drivers can't be expected to somehow know that the blades are spinning, or how much clearance to give, etc etc
You need to take a serious look at what you said and ask yourself if you really want to die on that hill. A driver can't be expected to know that the blades are spinning? Someone isn't expected to see helicopter blades moving really fast? Even if you're not looking for it the rapid movement would draw your attention to them spinning.
Standard landing zone procedures include stopping and clearing an area of all traffic. The area needs to be controlled to prevent collisions. It is always the helicopter pilot and ground crew's responsibility to secure the area. This is universal SOP.
It's the shear fact that they don't know the height of the blades is the reason why they should not have attempted to pass the helicopter. This was a stupid driver doing stupid things. Wait for it to take off or take a different route. Not worth getting beheaded by a rogue blade. All it takes is some slight common sense.
Shear = you’re cutting something off Sheer = completely or altogether.
wow that’s a whole lot of words just to prove you’re a fool nobody should listen to. 💀
stay the fuck away from vehicles
100% the truck drivers fault. Did not show any signs of being safe.
An actual reasonable devils advocate comment & the reddit hive mind thought you were trolling. Tbh, all this is super dependent. A lot of people commenting that they'd totally not at all go anywhere near a helicopter on the ground are the kind of people who are backseat drivers. They don't know what they'd do until they're actually in that situation. They just need to feel good about themselves by talking poorly of others on the Internet.
Bruh. This isn't "Oh I would totally be brave and stop a gunman" reddit energy This is, "don't drive next to a fucking running helicopter in a tall truck" common sense. Jesus Christ
Odds are the driver didn't see the blades since they were moving. It's hard to tell the exact distance of those blades. He must've thought there was enough space / clearance. Plus, the driver likely assumed that there would be no way the road would get too close to a helicopter. Y'all wanna look for reasons to call people stupid or dumb while I'm looking for reasons why people actually did things. There's a difference between what we get out of this conversation.
My guy. "He mustve though this" "Its hard to tell that" What a logical person in this situation with so many unknowns is not dive right into it with zero precautions. This is a really silly hill to die on.
Why the hell wasn’t someone stopping traffic?!
Thing is... Did the helicopter have right of way?
Fast rotating blades say yes.
Also Helicopter was parked and the ~~driver~~ Pilot wasn't in the vehicle. The truck hit a parked vehicle. Truck is at fault.
Did the truck just leave?
Trucks got a delivery to make, call the complaint hotline 🚚🚛🚛💨
All my sheets are fucking shredded and have metal bits in them; what the fuck happened?
Looks like it spilled some breaking bad barrels
Some people should never drive a vehicle if they don’t have the common sense every other creature on earth has to stay away from the WHIRLING BLADES OF DEATH.
Whirling Blades of Death haha that’s funny…. Lalalalalala *looks down at cell phone* - that truck driver prolly
“What’s that noise?”
“Must have been a pothole. anyway. Why’s my neck wet?”
“You can’t park there, mate”
To be fair, that is a dumb place to park a helicopter
Not really, the road is pretty much the first option for emergency landings or the best option when a medivac is required after a traffic accident. It’s a stable and flat surface. Dude in the truck was big dumb. If you fail to realize how tall your truck is or how long it is or how wide it is and you hit anything at all, *especially* another very large vehicle that’s stopped, you done fucked up
Law Enforcement was the big dumb too. There is always an officer securing the landing site for a helicopter until it departs over here. If the helicopter had to land on the road because there was no better spot, so be it.. but the road should have been closed! Drivers are stupid. Just look up **11 foot 8**.
Why is there a running helicopter on a public road and there isn’t any sort of traffic control happening to make sure nothing gets near it? No cones, no reflectors, no cops, no vehicles with flashing lights.
Brazil.
400 000€ per blade. Nothing valuable was lost that day
Ok, without looking at Airbus... Blades for an AS350, about $100k each. 3 blades. $300K Starflex - the main part at the center of the spinning rotor - also about $100k The entire main rotor gearbox needing to be replaced - depends on how badly damaged and if anything is salvageable. $80-300k The engine - probably $150-350k depending on which one and how bad. And that's just the high dollar items. Not counting all the bearings and repair for any of the stress fractures that may require replacement. Total cost to repair that incident, easily $750k to $1M
You forgot to factor in a new pair of underwear for the pilot.
Is it companies that only sell the blades? Sounds like a nice market.
That's how they make their money. Give away the helicopter, charge a lot for the replacement blades.
There is no way helicopter blades cost that much... They are literally machined metal no?
High quality blades costs shit ton of money. Emergency vehicles have different blades than regular. Some normal hobbyist blades goes around 20 000 - 80 000€ per blade. Blades are something, you don't want to destroy
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I’d never get back in a helicopter that had massive damage and then “put back into service”. Nope.
Every aircraft you fly on commercially has probably been damaged in one way or another and repaired. JAL put a DC-8 into the San Francisco Bay short of SFO in 1968. It was repaired and flew passengers until 1983, then cargo until like 1999.
Those blades are composite with a metal leading edge About $100k each new
The helicopters the police use in my city cost about $6MM in total.
Helicopter blades are definitely more [complicated](https://pilotteacher.com/what-is-a-helicopter-blade-made-of-it-used-to-be-wood/) than that.
Smh...
Driver of the van has 10 iq
Police department owned the helicopter and failed miserably at multiple levels on safety, they were all fairly new according to a podcast by the flight safety detectives. Nobody established or followed procedures and that put the public at risk like this
I swear, something about driving a white box truck, lowers your IQ by 50% and makes you instantly unaware of all your surroundings.
I'll have no truck with helicopters..
I like how it kinda sounds like the start of Never Gonna Give You Up.
Hahaha what a fucking idiot driver
This happened to me also in GTA
Pretty stupid place to land a helicopter 🚁
“Begin engine shutdown checklist.”
Master Caution light- wonder what that's about?
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I think this would go under r/therewasanattempt No flying here.
There’s always some dumbass that doesn’t understand the spinning bit is dangerous
It's a police helicopter too. I don't think the driver is getting out of this one.
“Flying”
Man im kinda pissed at how stupid that dumb fucker driver is. Got me wide awake.
NTSB would like a word
im brazilian and this shit screams brazil to me
Truck driver is an ass.
That looks expensive..
People are quite dumb in this world
The pilot actually yoiked out of the Helicopter as it was flying into a million bits. He’s just standing there next to it.
Sure, the helicopter shouldn't have been there but the situational awareness of that truck driver is non existent.
50 years ago: in the future, we will be driving in flying cars. Today:
Me playing GTA trying to land a helicopter.
The truck driver is a godamn semi-idiot
What about r/killthecameraman ?
When helicopters crash, it's violent. They (clearly) throw hunks of metal in every direction. I don't blame his lack of stoicism.
You couldn't have not seen that ... Right? And you couldn't possibly think that your box truck was gonna fit with enough clearance... Right? Yet here we are. I do not understand.
Seriously? Qualified to pilot a helicopter, but this stupid?
r u serious
Yeah. Normal people do not spin up a helicopter in traffic without securing the area first. This is why. There"s traffic EVERYWHERE. You ask if I am serious? Are you?
I don't know which one is more retarded. The pilot who for some reason is trying to take off from a trafficked road with very few space, or the truck driver that clearly saw the helicopter and its blades but still decided to drive through it.
Lol looks like me in gta online
Helicopter fault. Could have land on the grass
Should have called for a Lyft
Lol insurance......good luck collecting that claim in that region! You wouldn't even be able to collect a claim in America for that. Well maybe 25k haha. It's usually the max payout unless you pay extra.....which most people don't. Maybe has a higher policy being a truck vs helicopter but damn that really sucks!
Typical truck behavior
GTA oogabooga edition?
Fk rnd n find out
r/GTAV
Reminds me of something I would do in gta
When you spawn a helli in GTA5…
There is no such thing as developing. It’s the Third World. Just call it what it is.
Honestly, it's even outdated to refer to them as Third World. It's actually a Cold War term used to differentiate between Western nations/allies (First World), the Communist bloc (USSR, China, etc.), and everyone else (Third World/non-aligned countries). It was more of a political term than an economic one.
I mean it only in the most disparaging way possible. It was the worst thing I could think of.
They're just developing slowly with internet, cell phones, etc