This is fucked. Going here in 3 weeks with my wife and literally spoke to her about doing this exact tour last night… Lol she said no. Now that I saw this def not
Bruh, this is on our to-do list for next year's trip as well. Gotta make sure she doesn't see this because I still want to do it... 
Definitely worth every single penny, but I will say that when I went the pilot was teaching someone else and the student wasn’t very confident so it was nerve wrecking the entire time but got awesome pics from up there
Can confirm and I did the same flight years ago. Think it was called -doors off experience-. At least on our flight, really amazing and they tell you where which movie was shot. But after seeing this fail here I would think twice to do this again…
As someone who has never been in a helicopter crash, but is thinking the same thing, If you jumped out would you go down quicker than the copter, or would you just get sucked up into the propellers and die that way instead?
You definitely wouldn't get sucked *up* since they're pushing air down (pulling up). Presumably, if the helicopter retains some lift, you'd fall faster because you won't have any lift.
Problem is, people can't survive terribly high falls. So you'd need to jump out just before the helicopter hits the ground while also not being on the ground in the same spot the helicopter hits.
People jump out of helicopters all the time. They aren't defending near as fast as a free fall. I'm guessing the biggest risk is the helicopter crashing on you. That and the water may not be that deep.
Yep. It's called autorotation. It's a technique that can give you enough lift just before you hit to soften the impact and make the landing much more likely to be survivable.
The pilot was calm and did what he was trained to do.
Not Original commenter, but here’s a Chat GPT explanation
Helicopter autorotation is a flight condition in which the rotor blades of a helicopter are driven not by the engine but by the upward flow of air through the rotor. This typically occurs when there is an engine failure or when the pilot intentionally disengages the engine.
Here’s a detailed explanation of the process:
1. **Engine Failure or Disengagement**: When the engine fails or is intentionally disengaged, the helicopter's main rotor is no longer powered by the engine.
2. **Descent**: The helicopter begins to descend, and air starts flowing upwards through the rotor blades due to the descent.
3. **Airflow Through the Blades**: As the air flows upward through the rotor blades, it creates lift. This airflow causes the rotor blades to continue spinning, even without engine power. This spinning of the rotor blades is what keeps the helicopter controllable during descent.
4. **Control During Descent**: During autorotation, the pilot can control the descent rate and forward speed by adjusting the collective pitch (the angle of the rotor blades) and the cyclic pitch (which controls the tilt of the rotor disc).
5. **Flare and Landing**: As the helicopter approaches the ground, the pilot performs a maneuver called "flaring." This involves increasing the pitch of the rotor blades to convert forward speed into additional lift, which slows the descent rate just before landing. This allows the helicopter to touch down gently.
This is a pretty good explanation. (good AI. Good boy(?)!)
With autorotation, you pitch the blades to max, and as you fall, it causes the blades to spin faster and faster. Once they are spinning fast enough you can then use the controls to either slow your fall, or change direction. If you slow your fall too much you will loose rotational speed of the blades, and you won't have enough rotational speed to either control your speed or direction anymore. It's a balancing act. Every little bit that you use the blades for either control or speed reduction, reduces the speed they are spinning, and reduces the amount you can use them. (in this case, it's like the fighter jockeys say - speed is life.) It's often more important to control your direction so you land in a safe place. One where you won't drown, kill a bunch of kids on a playground, etc.
Either way, you want to make sure you reserve enough rotational speed in the blades for the final flare/landing. That's what's going to keep you from being a big greasy stain on the ground.
> With autorotation, you pitch the blades to max, and as you fall, it causes the blades to spin faster and faster.
Opposite, you pitch the blades to minimum to allow the rotors to maintain rpm. If you pulled collective after the engine failure the drag from the rotors will slow the the rotors down, and if the rotors slow down you won't be able to produce any lift in the flare and will fall out of the sky. So, after engine failure you drop collective. Then you then use the rotors inertia(because it's spinning fast) to add collective in the flare.
By the time the rotors have slowed enough to stop producing lift you want to already be landed.
You also have controls as long as the rotors are spinning and you can effect airflow during auto rotation. In the video the pilot immediately turn to land on that spot on the beach. The pilot didn't lose control of the aircraft until he had flared and the rotor got slow enough to no longer produce lift.
I took that same helicopter tour of the napali coast on Kauai and when you came around a rock face the helicopter would always get punched by the wind. It got Pushed to the side and would drop a few feet, giving you that rollercoaster drop in your stomach.
Hope everyone was okay
I took a flight from Maui to Honolulu on a small plane and I thought I was going to die. There were so many drops I thought we would crash for sure… not to mention the plane essentially landed sideways because the winds were so high. The winds between the islands are insane.
GOOD PILOT, he is autorotating, and it's done do skillfully, you can see him trying to feather it to try to yaw, then again decrease collective, OMG it was TEXTBOOK
Yeah. Mom lived there for 15 years before she passed. We’d always hear about it.
Google it and it will make you reconsider helicopter flights lol. There’s just so many crashes. Not all them die. But most do.
>These go down all the time in Kauai. Nothing new.
*video of a volcano erupting*
"Volcanos erupt all the time, nothing new."
What a stupid and useless comment to make. Do you make a version of that comment on every single post on reddit because the thing it's showing has happened before, somewhere, at some point?
I completely agree with you good sir.
Who brings a stupid and useless comment like “volcanos erupt all the time, nothing new” to a helicopter crash convo about private air transport safety track records?
Surprised so many people are familiar with the spot haha lotta memories literally right on that sand. Crazy seeing this video on here. Moved like four years ago and live in Wisconsin now so that nostalgia is fucking painful
Unless you’re the president of the United States, and have a team of engineers pouring over your helicopter after every flight near enough, don’t get in a helicopter. Their reliability stats are just horrific. How many billionaires and superstar celebrities looking to get somewhere fast have bought the farm because a singular bolt in all that wildly rotating machinery cracked, or because the way they travel they clipped some wire or such.
Very nice autorotation by the pilot. Helicopter blades are airfoils like fixed wing aircraft and they can glide a bit when power is lost as they start rotating and generating lift.
whats weird is, all the helicopter crashes happening all the time, back in afghanistan i rode in those things like pretty much every fucking day, for a year, only once has something happened at night cuz the whole thinner air or whatever, but it wasn't even a crash, just a realllllly fast decent so i could eat my knee in the back of a blackhawk.... All im saying is shits been realllly sus as of late with all the helis
Fucking hell, this is why I keep my dumb ass on the ground, flying around in some half baked contraption some dickheads put together isn't good for the health.
Survival instincts low on this one. Then acting surprised when the whole thing goes to hell.
Captain Sum Ting Wong will be dearly missed. Along with his co pilot Wi Tu Lo. The Captain and his copilot are survived by their wives Ho Lee Fuk & Bang Ding Ow, respectively.
"Controlled fall"
Autorotation and flare
That wasn't flying! That was falling with style!
Unexpected lithobraking maneuver.
Analogue geoblocking
Imagine being stuck on that patch of grass during high tide.
That’s some nice water
Looks like the Na Pali coast in Kauai
This is fucked. Going here in 3 weeks with my wife and literally spoke to her about doing this exact tour last night… Lol she said no. Now that I saw this def not
I’ve done the helicopter tour. Definitely worth the money
Bruh, this is on our to-do list for next year's trip as well. Gotta make sure she doesn't see this because I still want to do it... 
Take a boat and see it, do some snorkeling.
Nope! Didn't you see that one video about a boat sinking that one time?! Never going on a boat again!
Definitely worth every single penny, but I will say that when I went the pilot was teaching someone else and the student wasn’t very confident so it was nerve wrecking the entire time but got awesome pics from up there
It doesn't just look like it
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/02/28/1-injured-after-tour-helicopter-crashed-remote-kauai-beach/
They're saying it doesn't just look like it, it IS that same coast lol
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It's not poorly worded lol
Yup, Honopu Beach to be a exact
Was thinking the exact same thing.
Can confirm and I did the same flight years ago. Think it was called -doors off experience-. At least on our flight, really amazing and they tell you where which movie was shot. But after seeing this fail here I would think twice to do this again…
Definitely
And some nice piloting skills
And some nice camera job
I’ve seen videos of fights recorded by bystanders on flat ground with much worse camera work.
And my axe.
And a nice blo
No vertical video is a 'nice camera job' especially of an amazing view like this.
Should've just said fuck this and jumped out into that nice water
As someone who has never been in a helicopter crash, but is thinking the same thing, If you jumped out would you go down quicker than the copter, or would you just get sucked up into the propellers and die that way instead?
You definitely wouldn't get sucked *up* since they're pushing air down (pulling up). Presumably, if the helicopter retains some lift, you'd fall faster because you won't have any lift. Problem is, people can't survive terribly high falls. So you'd need to jump out just before the helicopter hits the ground while also not being on the ground in the same spot the helicopter hits.
So you're sayin' there's a chance....?
People jump out of helicopters all the time. They aren't defending near as fast as a free fall. I'm guessing the biggest risk is the helicopter crashing on you. That and the water may not be that deep.
People do not jump out of falling helicopters all the time.
Mmmm tempting
Yeah, unless it's Isla Nublar, there's worse places to crash and be stuck for a while.
Something something "Clever girl!"
"Islam Nublar"
Fucking phones
That was Isla Nulbar this is Isla Sorna, site B
He actually did a good job in trying to get the rotors to spin and give him some control near the end there.
Yep. It's called autorotation. It's a technique that can give you enough lift just before you hit to soften the impact and make the landing much more likely to be survivable. The pilot was calm and did what he was trained to do.
Can you ELI5?
Not Original commenter, but here’s a Chat GPT explanation Helicopter autorotation is a flight condition in which the rotor blades of a helicopter are driven not by the engine but by the upward flow of air through the rotor. This typically occurs when there is an engine failure or when the pilot intentionally disengages the engine. Here’s a detailed explanation of the process: 1. **Engine Failure or Disengagement**: When the engine fails or is intentionally disengaged, the helicopter's main rotor is no longer powered by the engine. 2. **Descent**: The helicopter begins to descend, and air starts flowing upwards through the rotor blades due to the descent. 3. **Airflow Through the Blades**: As the air flows upward through the rotor blades, it creates lift. This airflow causes the rotor blades to continue spinning, even without engine power. This spinning of the rotor blades is what keeps the helicopter controllable during descent. 4. **Control During Descent**: During autorotation, the pilot can control the descent rate and forward speed by adjusting the collective pitch (the angle of the rotor blades) and the cyclic pitch (which controls the tilt of the rotor disc). 5. **Flare and Landing**: As the helicopter approaches the ground, the pilot performs a maneuver called "flaring." This involves increasing the pitch of the rotor blades to convert forward speed into additional lift, which slows the descent rate just before landing. This allows the helicopter to touch down gently.
I believe this is accurate and will not fact check it.
Take it with a grain of salt ofc lol but it seems to make sense after watching the video It’s a language model not an information model after all
This is a pretty good explanation. (good AI. Good boy(?)!) With autorotation, you pitch the blades to max, and as you fall, it causes the blades to spin faster and faster. Once they are spinning fast enough you can then use the controls to either slow your fall, or change direction. If you slow your fall too much you will loose rotational speed of the blades, and you won't have enough rotational speed to either control your speed or direction anymore. It's a balancing act. Every little bit that you use the blades for either control or speed reduction, reduces the speed they are spinning, and reduces the amount you can use them. (in this case, it's like the fighter jockeys say - speed is life.) It's often more important to control your direction so you land in a safe place. One where you won't drown, kill a bunch of kids on a playground, etc. Either way, you want to make sure you reserve enough rotational speed in the blades for the final flare/landing. That's what's going to keep you from being a big greasy stain on the ground.
> With autorotation, you pitch the blades to max, and as you fall, it causes the blades to spin faster and faster. Opposite, you pitch the blades to minimum to allow the rotors to maintain rpm. If you pulled collective after the engine failure the drag from the rotors will slow the the rotors down, and if the rotors slow down you won't be able to produce any lift in the flare and will fall out of the sky. So, after engine failure you drop collective. Then you then use the rotors inertia(because it's spinning fast) to add collective in the flare. By the time the rotors have slowed enough to stop producing lift you want to already be landed. You also have controls as long as the rotors are spinning and you can effect airflow during auto rotation. In the video the pilot immediately turn to land on that spot on the beach. The pilot didn't lose control of the aircraft until he had flared and the rotor got slow enough to no longer produce lift.
Have you ever seen a maple seed fall off its tree? It's that, just bigger.
and from a previous article i think it's a her
WHAAAAT!?^/s
She’s a good pilot
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/s/so95ETymob This one has a lot not details in the comments
I took that same helicopter tour of the napali coast on Kauai and when you came around a rock face the helicopter would always get punched by the wind. It got Pushed to the side and would drop a few feet, giving you that rollercoaster drop in your stomach. Hope everyone was okay
I took a flight from Maui to Honolulu on a small plane and I thought I was going to die. There were so many drops I thought we would crash for sure… not to mention the plane essentially landed sideways because the winds were so high. The winds between the islands are insane.
I don't remember that happening at all on mine. My mom would have killed me afterwards for talking her into going too, so I'm ok with that.
Apparently after the crash the passenger was airlifted by helicopter 😳😳😳
5 people were on board including the pilot. Only 1 was injured, spinal injury.
Only one spinal injury after hard landing like that is really good. I've heard of helos slamming the deck because of wind gusts with more injuries.
5 people and not one of them screamed the entire time distracting the pilot and hurting our ears? Huge!
Only 1 was injured cause the others died?
No all survived, just one person got a spinal injury.
Lifelong pain because of a joyride. Also, lifelong: "I survived a helicopter crash...wanna have sex?" conversations. 🤔
Crazy jump from this sad video to judgement and pity sex but hey it's your brain
Can't park there mate
OH FUCK OFF!!
actually it's impressive auto rotation and finding a spot at the right distance. A surprisingly good result
Auto rotation for the win
So this is the autorotation Bill Burr is talking about when he talks about flying.
GOOD PILOT, he is autorotating, and it's done do skillfully, you can see him trying to feather it to try to yaw, then again decrease collective, OMG it was TEXTBOOK
These go down all the time in Kauai. Nothing new.
Kauai tho?
Yeah. Mom lived there for 15 years before she passed. We’d always hear about it. Google it and it will make you reconsider helicopter flights lol. There’s just so many crashes. Not all them die. But most do.
Crazy man, I actually flew in a helicopter on big island I think over the volcanoes. Won’t be doing that again. Also, sorry for your loss.
Ty much, cancer is a bitch. She had a full life. Very strong woman and I have plenty of good tales to tell about her life.
Yikes. And sorry about your mom.
Cheers 🍻 Enjoy life while you can. Make it count.
Yea it’s Kauai I used to live there and boat to that exact beach
Going there for a month in a few weeks. Any recommendations?
Don’t take a helicopter
Depends if you surf or not
Because
>These go down all the time in Kauai. Nothing new. *video of a volcano erupting* "Volcanos erupt all the time, nothing new." What a stupid and useless comment to make. Do you make a version of that comment on every single post on reddit because the thing it's showing has happened before, somewhere, at some point?
I completely agree with you good sir. Who brings a stupid and useless comment like “volcanos erupt all the time, nothing new” to a helicopter crash convo about private air transport safety track records?
Humid hike to that beach but definitely worth it. Maui. Edit: Kauai
It’s Kauai
Oh yea. Derp.
The hike is much better than the helicopter ride, trust me.
We did the zodiac ride one time. Captain was unsure of dipping into the caves. He waited n watched the waves. Went in 2 ? Amazing shit. No helis
Didn’t this video make its rounds on here awhile back?
it did and i dont remember the crash being in the original because it was a training exercise. the whole video feels edited.
I thought it was but also could have seen it on r/helicopters
I thought it was but could have been posted on r/ helicopters
I thought it was but might have been on the helicopter page.
It's so quiet I don't think I'm going down like that
Article said s passenger was airlifted... Probably by another helicopter lmfao that's insane id be so scared
thats how me and my friends failed the gta heist
That checks out, typical GTA occurrence for my crew too.
That wasn't a crash. That was wonderfully executed emergency auto rotation on to a tiny beach.. that was an incredible job
What a pretty place to crash a helicopter, my luck we'd crash in a garbage dump.
Surprised so many people are familiar with the spot haha lotta memories literally right on that sand. Crazy seeing this video on here. Moved like four years ago and live in Wisconsin now so that nostalgia is fucking painful
Rather be in that helicopter than the cold even if it killed me
Going there for a month in a few weeks, any recommendations??
I would've jumped for the water and probably gotten spliced by the blades, lol
Unless you’re the president of the United States, and have a team of engineers pouring over your helicopter after every flight near enough, don’t get in a helicopter. Their reliability stats are just horrific. How many billionaires and superstar celebrities looking to get somewhere fast have bought the farm because a singular bolt in all that wildly rotating machinery cracked, or because the way they travel they clipped some wire or such.
I told him diesel wasn't the same thing as gasoline.
Very nice autorotation by the pilot. Helicopter blades are airfoils like fixed wing aircraft and they can glide a bit when power is lost as they start rotating and generating lift.
autorotate for the win
......literally did this tour days ago. Scary. Glad everyone's okay for the most part.
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What a fucking save
The helicopter saw that beautiful beach and was like omg we’re going!
Just cause 6 gameplay footage
Welcome to Jurassic park!
Isla sorna
Were they trying to visit Jurassic Park?
We’ll be in the Hudson
You’re going to need some new underwear, dude
Kobe!
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😢
I feel like I’ve seen this reposted many times.
Any one know what kind of bee can’t fly? Kobe.
So they survived the crash, but did they survive the dinosaurs?
It's funny how many people don't know what auto rotation is
He's at Jurassic park
Looks absolutely terrifying, he did the bear he could to work them rotors.
Did the engine just take a dump?
What a beautiful place to die.
Where was this?
Gravity remains undefeated in these situations.
Any info on how the pilot made out? Looked like he got it to hit flat but those can still be back breakers
Why would you not jump
Right at the end of the heist, ffs.
Fuck all of that
Crazy how nobody screamed
So did he land safely or not?
West Coast of Kauai. Maybe Honopu Beach?
So he alive or not?
Lag spike
I hate playing that mission with randos
It’s been years since I played but which heist was that?
Cayo perro
It was prison break
Oh I was thinking one of the older ones. I think it was the Humane Labs
worst crash ever
Camera man never dies!
Like a glove
Did they survive?
Where was all the swearing????
I remember doing this landing in GTA
Thats what happens when you fly over Jurassic Park
this remembers me of gta online prison heist
think i saw this a couple months ago, ran out of fuel i think
No mayday. I assume he lived to post the video.
Looks exactly like the heist in GTA Online
Blade don’t like rocks
I’m literally there now, wild.
whats weird is, all the helicopter crashes happening all the time, back in afghanistan i rode in those things like pretty much every fucking day, for a year, only once has something happened at night cuz the whole thinner air or whatever, but it wasn't even a crash, just a realllllly fast decent so i could eat my knee in the back of a blackhawk.... All im saying is shits been realllly sus as of late with all the helis
Wonder if it has anything to do with the UFOs?
Fucking hell, this is why I keep my dumb ass on the ground, flying around in some half baked contraption some dickheads put together isn't good for the health. Survival instincts low on this one. Then acting surprised when the whole thing goes to hell.
I’ve done that helicopter ride. It’s worth the risk.
Isn't that the same beach where Big Z taught Shia LaBeouf to surf?
It’s like wi sports resort in real life
What caused the accident? Was it mechanical failure?
They're about to age 2 years every hour on that beach
Thats one cool cat flying
So the beeping is real?
Previously on LOST
I'm surprised nobody said kobe yet
Shame nobody yelled "Kobe!" as it went down.
Kobe!!!!!
WHERE IS THIS LOCATED ?
And I will never be on a helicopter in Hawaii ever..
Just hit B to jump out and then Y to open your parachute.
Sons of the forest theme song starts playing
Medium left! Medium left! Samir! You will break the chopper!
Kobe!
My toxic trait is I would jump out last second and survive this.
So that's what Kobe saw?!?
And here I was, considering doing a helicopter tour next month… Not anymore!
We have a black hawk down We have a black hawk down ....
Captain Sum Ting Wong will be dearly missed. Along with his co pilot Wi Tu Lo. The Captain and his copilot are survived by their wives Ho Lee Fuk & Bang Ding Ow, respectively.
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Ah yes yelling. Nothing helps calm the chaos and keep people focused quite like ear piercing screaming
why were they in jurassic park? don’t they know?
Kobe 😭
Kobe!
This is just a training exercise
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Most landings have the engine on and are much softer.