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I'm glad to hear no one was killed. Not to make light of the situation, but that reminded me of seeing new pilots learning the controls in Battlefield 3.

I wonder if they're at altitude and the low density air just didn't provide the lift the pilot was expecting. An expensive bit of showing off whatever.

pilot error. not enough altitude and he didn't execute the maneuver very well - the chopper should have pivoted around at the end of the upward curve and straighten itself in the direction of flight thus giving the rotors a chance to provide lift as soon as possible before it starts loosing too much height. altitude of the terrain was also a factor, but the pilot should have calculated that in ...

and *promote, for the extremely lucky crew and soldiers on the ground

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 9:07am PDT - promote requested by kulpims.

Also reminded me of this sift from awhile ago called "Inverted">> ^ShakeyMcBones:

I'm glad to hear no one was killed. Not to make light of the situation, but that reminded me of seeing new pilots learning the controls in Battlefield 3.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Apache, helicopter crash' to 'Apache, helicopter crash, crash landing, cfit' - edited by calvados

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Apache, helicopter crash, crash landing, cfit' to 'Apache, helicopter crash, crash landing' - edited by calvados

Question:
How many kids could have had $65,000 college scholarships for the price of that single helicopter?

Answer:
Over 300

Question:
How many kids could have had $65,000 scholarships for the price of the Afghanistan war IN 2011 ALONE?

Answer:
Over 1.8 million

Question:
How many kids could have had $65,000 scholarships for the price of the Afghanistan war since 2003?

Answer:
Over 7 million

Remember to recoil in horror though at the thought of "freeloaders" wanting free education! We dont want educated Americans! We want $20 million dollar helicopters!

>> ^deathcow:

Question:

Educating kids, especially those who can't afford an education on their own, does not lead to greater short-term profits and higher executive salaries for the military industry. Therefore your question is irrelevant.

I don't think this was pilot error I think what happened was a malfunction if this is the Helicopter crash I'm thinking of. Anyone have an article saying it was pilot error?

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/dramatic-military-helicopter-crash-caught-on-camera/

Lol what a noob pilot, I think I was playing on the same server when that happened.

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Fucking BF3 controls. That's what happened!

>> ^Yogi:

I don't think this was pilot error I think what happened was a malfunction if this is the Helicopter crash I'm thinking of. Anyone have an article saying it was pilot error?

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