Heli crashes in Korea while filming Top Gear

[Footprint Productions]

Hi All,

Just got sent this and haven't seen it on the forum, apologies if it has already done the rounds.

What's the consensus? Over pitching after the aggressive turn?

http://www.break.com/index/incredible-helicopter-crash-top-gear-korea-2414810

Cheers
Matt

[actionman]

Hi Matt and All,
With all the expertise on this site I’m surprised no-one has had a shot at this. From reading past posts, I’m sure there are some military or ex-military pilots among us that may even have some cobra experience. Now the cool dude in the driving seat looks like this is just another day at the office and the low level manoeuvres are nothing new to him. My view is something went wrong around the 55 second mark in the clip, nose drops, the anti-torque turn is not working for him or he runs out of hydraulics. At the 55 second mark on my machine is where I see it all going wrong, either he should be rolling out, or boot right pedal and lower collective and aft cyclic for the completion of his anti-torque turn. By 57 seconds , still nose low (way too low for that height above the ground) still continuing the right roll, 58 seconds, only a second before impact, still persisting with trying to pull it around, no excessive coning. My best guess, having run out of hydraulics in heavy duty manoeuvres myself in a bell, was his problem.
I have ruled out over pitching
just my not very educated view and hoping for more diagnosis
Cheers
Ross

[Capt Hollywood]

A few comments from when this footage first hit the forum.

http://www.bladeslapper.com/content/bb/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=6219&p=45235&hilit=top+gear#p45235

[Mallard]

I read when this first happened the pilot reported loss of hydraulics... the accident happened some time ago there was some amateur footage of the crash it's just been recently in the news as the top gear production footage has been released.

The guy driving the corvette is speechless.

[loriana]

the crash happened in an instant!! I wonder if the pilot is ok or not?
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[Vorticey]

Just looks like something happend, so he bought it around into wind to make the landing. unfortunately it landed heavy and rolled over.

[papillons]

I'm a bit confused by the vids...the on-board shots seem reversed?

What am I missing?