Black Hawk Helicopter Crash Video

Video Courtesy of Tom Carney

[TheBL-ZNL]

legends say that guy is still trying to get his go pro to start recording

[mongolikechewchew]

The mouth breather was so powerful, he blew the Choppa into the snow!

[ADD]

It's called a whiteout. Blinded by their own rotor wash, should have immediately climbed out of the blowing snow.

[patmcbride]

Crash Mountain Division.
Don't let your engines eat snow.
BTW, kudos for steady recording and use of landscape mode.

[errorsofmodernism]

Who would have thought blowing the snow with the rotor wash would cause a whiteout? The lights are on but no ones home.

[myfavoritemartian]

They were coming in trail formation. Hovering to blow away loose snow. rear bird drifts sideways dragging skid which hangs up turning bird over on it's side. Piece of main rotor strikes tail rotor of lead bird, crashing both from a low altitude. No serious injuries reported.

[absolutetuber]

Go pro, start recording!

Go pro: naw, I’m good dawg. Just gonna sit this one out.

[VicsVoltageDrop]

Engines don't care about snow. When you get into a snowball, the pilot has no reference unless his Flight Engineer is on his belly giving drift references. Otherwise you will drift into a snow bank or another helicopter. We practice this often in the military to perfect a bad situation.

[bobsmith]

This is exactly how the Iranian hostage rescue ended but with a helicopter pilot blinded by sand kicked up by the rotor wash flying his helicopter into an airplane and that was 42 years ago.

[raspberryridge]

Heli-ski operations land in snow all the time. But not two at the same time ... PS thanks for sharing, great video!

[mrbeans]

What people need to understand is how hard it is to see the ground during the day covered in snow with all that wash out happening, it's almost impossible!

[flightmode]

Awesome shot! Can I feature it in my upcoming episode with credit? Thanks!

[bakedinspiration]

Average cost: 5-10 million dollars per bird

Watching 20 million go up in smoke on a powder day. Priceless.

[TheoDor-kt]

Well if you French fry when youre supposed to pizza, you're gonna have a bad time

[Kedroniteproductions]

If you loose closely, he hit the ground lost a blade, it goes flying. He cannot see clear landing.

[frankalexander]

Looks to me like parts of a rotor can be seen flying out of the snow cloud just before the lead machine loses control, at about 41 seconds into the video. If you look quick, you can identify three different pieces.

[djanitatiana]

LTE in the thin air? Looked like a super quick yaw at the last moment there....

[netbenefits]

For anyone curious, the news report I found said that both Blackhawks crashed, but that there were no injuries and there wasn't even a fuel leak.

[FlippedOut]

Hoping for the best outcomes for all.... 🙏😬😪

[dougaltolan]

Ohh look, 2 indistinct dots. Why the hell did you zoom out?