London Helicopter Crash
Crash happened around 8 o’clock this morning…
Wandsworth Road, Vauxhall in flames at crash site.
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Lord Tebbit has his say on ‘aggressive homosexuals’:
“Why shouldn’t a mother marry her daughter? Why shouldn’t two elderly sisters living together marry each other? I quite fancy my brother!”
Harold Macmillan says:
” Evans, dear boy, Evans “
eep.. not nice.
There’s a few views on the traffic cams http://lon.bz/C14476
Anyone other than the pilot on board….?
Dunno but part of the crane reputedly hanging from the building according to the BBC, so crane driver may be involved if he had started work?
Reports of just the one on board, but then it might have hit lots on the ground
Early reports say only the pilot was on board
2 confirmed dead
According to BBC, 4 on board. 2 dead 2 taken to hospital. No info on who they are.
There were cars and people on the road, so it is not clear whether the 2 dead and 2 injured are in the helicopter, car or on road.
Right next to MI6 building, is this not suspicious?
Was it shot down?
Nope not suspicious as all, move along every one..
No.
That is tragic. Is there any information as to the owner/purpose of the helicopter ?
I heard there were two cars driving in the street when the helicopter came down and burst into flames.
helicopters are mental machines.
Fvcking ridiculous design and a bloody miracle any of them stay in the air and can be bought down by small arms fire.
True enough, mind you looking at SKY it looks like very poor visibility at the height it hit the crane.
Helicopters will definitely kill you.
There should be a full public inquiry
Ii understand that David Cameron is in a satisfactory condition and ready to receive his weekly mauling from Ed Miliband at todays PMQ’s.
Doctor: Wake up Mrs Goldblatt, Wake Up. Doris Goldblatt, can you tell me your name? Wake up Mrs Goldblatt, Wake Up. Mrs Goldblatt, can you say your name?
Nurse: Shall I give her another shot?
Doctor: I’ll try again. Wake up Mrs Goldblatt, Wake Up. Doris Goldblatt, can you tell me your name? Wake up Mrs Goldblatt, Wake Up. Mrs Goldblatt, can you say your name?
Another doctor: I think we’ll have to leave her for now, try again in an hour.
Investors are reminded that what goes up can, just as easily, come down.
In hindsight it seems a bloody stupid place to build such a tall building, I say in hindsight because I’m not the bleeding planner who allowed it to be built on a flight path, lucky a facking Jumbo didn’t hit it.
Was unaware that helicopters use flight paths. Planes have some time to descend normally, even if their engines fail (unless an explosion occurs). But helicopters are inherently unstable and just fall from where they are at the slightest provocation such as collision.
Cities are where one expects to find tall buildings in large numbers. Clearly they need cranes to build them. If the crane was visible, one has to ask why the helicopter did not steer clear. If visibility was poor, one has to question why the helicopter was in the air at all.
The rules in London are that helicopters follow the Thames, though they like to cut the curves.
The reason being they are so bloody dangerous.
It looks as if the FSA was doing the regulating then.
In the past helicopters weren’t allowed to fly over municipal/urban areas, but now we have proliferation of heliports, if poor visibility caused it then should not have been in the air, hitting power lines and cables is the biggest cause of helicopter crashes.
No … it is gravity.
Engine failure in a helicopter is definitely NOT fatal. The blades continue to turn, this is called autorotation, and the ‘chopper’ glides safely to mother earth.
However, proceeding full tilt into a tower crane invalidates the manufacturers guarantee of autorotation.
You have to be at a certain altitude for auto rotation to work, the blades have to turn in the opposite direction to that in powered flight.
It would never have auto rotated from that altitude in my opinion.
Have tried to verify that in auto rotation the blades turn in the opposite direction to that of powered flight with no success, was just using memory, which may be wrong.
Maybe the pilot was using memory too?
No, Swiss Bob, altitude makes no difference to auto-rotation. Unlike a parachute, it does not take time to open and as long as the blades are already turning and you have the right speed you will get lift immediately. And no, the blades don’t turn in the opposite direction but the pilot does need to reverse the pitch.
Of course, if you hit something the blades may have fallen off or bent and this is unlikely to be helpful. Also, the most common cause of helicopter crashes, after pilot error, is not engine failure but gearbox failure, iin which case you can’t do anything with the rotor.
In autorotation the blade does not turn in the opposite direction to normal operation, energy is stored as blade speed and used to slow descent by using blade pitch changes. My admittedly thin argument from authority is that I’m a fixed wing PPL.
I had referred to engine failure in planes above and collision in helicopters for that reason.
One imagines that the statistics for fatalities involving helicopter collision approach the 100% mark.
They don’t call the bit that holds the blades on the ‘Jesus nut’ for nothing.
McMental was in Parliament yesterday, could there be a connection?
Does he use his chopper?
Get to da choppa!
According to rumour, not for the purpose for which it is meant..
Yuck
Hmm that’s a fair point.
Government cuts are to blame for this crash.
No it was clearly a female Welsh pilot
Next not only to M16, but a blazing chopper,next to a gay club called “Fire”?
Eternal damnation has begun in the UK, starting in SW8.
Someone tell Pat Robertson
Trouble with helicopters is that they have the aerodynamic qualities of a brick if a fault occurs with the engine, gearbox or rotors.
Engine failure in a helicopter is definitely NOT fatal. The blades continue to turn, this is called autorotation, and the ‘chopper’ glides safely to mother earth.
However, proceeding full tilt into a tower crane invalidates the manufacturers guarantee of autorotation.
What sort of Vauxhall crashed into the crane?
Salmond grilled for breaksfast – on toast.
I had the sauteed mushrooms with my toast this morning together with a nice bowl of porridge made with skimmed milk
Nigel Farage wasn’t on board was he?
Art imitates life.
Vauxhall is what’s left of my wages after the taxman has had a go. i blame the 2 Eds.
Just been confirmed 2 have died, so I rather regret the jokes I’ve made here.
Yes, who would have though that a blazing helicopter plummeting 800 feet into a crowded street could be dangerous.
Well, no one is going to be mentioning █████ now, are they?
What’s █████ ?
Thought nobody was allowed to mention it anyway, whatever it is ** innocent face ** , and I couldn’t possibly say.
Tom Watson will probably use this as his new crusade and will call for a judge led inquiry and blame Cameron personally for the crash.
In a time of crisis a true Leader should always be with his people .
I just wanted to try piloting a helicopter.
Cue up “Higher Ground,” Stevie, woulda ya?
Someone research this properly and submit somewhere…
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