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Taliban crashes UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter in Kabul, Afghanistan. (imgur.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Wilshire@sh.itjust.works to c/crazyfuckingvideos@lemmy.world
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[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

I know nothing about helicopters, but can't you autorotate down and increase your chances of not dying in a situation like this? I thought that's what they were doing before they pitched forward and immediately died.

OK helicopter nerds, destroy me.

[–] this_1_is_mine@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

To be fair it actually was Auto rotating down until the nose pitch down and it lost all the lift that it was generating and it wasn't until then that it then pitched straight down and slammed right into the ground face first

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah that's why I thought that was what they were doing, and then, instead, they abruptly decided to die.

I'm beginning to suspect they didn't know that they were doing.

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