Video shows a Broward Sheriff’s Office helicopter in distress moments before it crashed into a Pompano Beach, Fla., apartment building.
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Video shows helicopter on fire prior to Florida crash
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Was the pilot a diversity hire?
What are the odds! RIP to the victims.
Get-there-itis. Sometimes an off field landing is your safest option.
Isn't it odd how this horrific crash killed the pilot and a person on the ground but two members. survived and looked like their hair didn't even get messed up? ..strange…..
Incredibly sad when someone who has a career in helping others is killed carrying out that duty.
Can't believe 2 of the passengers have non life threatening injuries after that.
Odd it caught fire where it did and the tail came off. Its like the pilot had no warning before the chopper was totally out of control.
RIP TO AIR CREW & LADY.
But pilot could have landed in any 4 way street. Pilots don't know how to hover and land they keep on goin, as if in a plane. look @ video.OMG.😢😮
RIP 5s
There are no words i can say on how i feel
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when you think they're professionals , yet they're not, If the on board fire waring did not fail why would he have kept it in the air this long? Fire means land. not fly till something falls off
In a universe of infinite possibilities your chances of having a helicopter fall on you are never exactly zero.
And I thought I had a bad day
I've never seen so many news reports trying to disparage Florida by putting it in the headlines like this. This has less to do with Florida and more to so with it being tail-less and a government copter. Also that two others survived it, right?
Rip to the brave pilot
It was absolutely miraculous that they were still able to produce lift with such a damaged helicopter. I don't know if somebody was at the controls stabilizing everything but the result was a miraculous survival of some on board.
A separated exhaust within the fuselage causes this. The hot exhaust then gets blown into the tail section, burning everything until the tail boom fails.
the tail broke .. causing the spin
I imagine he would have known it was on fire with that inferno since a turbine helicopter of that level would have a fire warning system, kina looks like he had decided to head back to the airport rather than landing as soon as practical in an opening somewhere, instead the tail boom finally succumbs to the raging inferno and ends in an uncontrolled crash endangering everyone, its a miracle no one was killed.
How often do we see an emergency response aircraft crash on route to an emergency. Maybe the pressure on the pilot to get to the trauma alert call was fogging judgment here. There is video of the helicopter on fire well before the breakup, surely there were alarms going off indicating a critical failure. Incredible that anyone survived this crash
Putin must be held accountable for this horrific kinzal hypersonic missile strike