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- March 12, 2009: A gearbox oil pressure problem causes Cougar Flight 91 to ditch into the Atlantic Ocean, 35 miles from land. The passengers and crew find themselves trapped inside a sinking helicopter.
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Absolute disaster: had this vehicle even been able to FLOAT when it crashed, we might have lost fewer people. (NOTE: a flotation system was on board, and apparently activated, but did not work.)
The system can really only work if the helicopter loses itâs rotor at 200 feet. Any higher and the landing is too viscious.
@@JNDlego57 What you said makes absolutely no sense. Simply not true.
@@cepaasch Obviosuly you are not educated on the matter. Sikorskiâs manual for this helicopter says that the helicopter needs to be at 200 feet for the air flowing through the rotor blades to slow the helicopter down enough to glide into the water and for the floatation system to work. The pilots were at 1,000 feet when they lost control of the aircraft. This is way too high for a controlled ditching into the ocean. The helicopter hit the water with such force and on itâs side that any floatation system would have never worked. The system can only work if it survives the intial impact with the water.
@@JNDlego57 Dw i trust you over a guy called Chris Paasch
the system probably would have done its job, but it can only work if the system isnt utterly crushed on impact.
Did the animations just improve a ton?
yea most of the new ones for season 15 seem to better than before.
That sea surface looks amazing.
@@DavidCurryFilms looks like the 3090s are finally instock
@@kilmentvoroshilov2827 LOL they must be lucky.
Or they just found a cool free 3d asset of the Heli xD
Definitely going flying after this
@@TheWondrousMinds no
@@TheWondrousMinds probably not,cheap way to promote.
Imagine me who studies to become a professional pilot
Ikrrr
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Date: 12/3/2009.
Survivors: 1.
Deaths: 17.
Flight: Cougar Flight 91
"They're all dead, only one survivor."
*happy jingle, "it's brighter here"*
I know, that jingle was horribly placed.
Didn't sound like a happy tune to me.
We know. This is kinda just the Smithsonian channel's thing? At least they offer sobering details of the investigations.
they be like '17 people are dead' and then ten seconds later play that lil Smithsonian jingle lol
Smithsonian: Horrific Aviation Story
Also Smithsonian: cOptEr đ HeLi
Finally someone is talking about it
you do realize this is not smithsonian's show right? and also, the people that made the show already made a heli episode.
I wish this was a longer video. Iâd like to know how that one person survived the crash!
He jumped out before it hits the water
At the inquiry he testified that he did not remember how he got out of the chopper after impact, not surprising given the trauma. I've traveled offshore in this area so here's a bit more info. The windows of the S92 are removable and we're trained to exit that way, also the survival suits we wear will float you to the surface so thats the most likely answer, he was badly injured though.
As you could tell, the waters there were frigid and cold water can steal your breath away. Neither pilot or any of the dead passengers had experienced with cold water so they weren't able to react properly to the onrush of freezing water. The one who survived often dived in Alaska's waters while fishing so he had plenty of experience. The person who survived was able to deal with the cold water and swam out and to the surface.
Helicopter companies are required to train their passengers and employees on how to survive a water crash, but they didn't train anyone on cold water crashes.
@@elliotchen7706 Not entirely true, but my comment wasn't completely accurate either. I reviewed the testimony from the survivor and he did remember more than I recalled about the reports. He did use his sailing experience to know how to react in water but he did also receive helicopter escape training prior to working offshore as we all do. Cold water survival is part of that weeklong course as well as escape training using a simulator. In addition, the survival suits worn by all persons onboard are waterproof and heavily insulated with only the face exposed to the cold water.
The final report from the inquiry noted that autopsy results on the victims showed major trauma injuries that coupled with the helicopter rolling on it's side and sinking after impact meant that the chances to escape were virtually nil.
@@elliotchen7706 they do though, all passengers and crew are required to dawn survival suits and even before they are hired by the oil companies to work offshore they have to pass a safety course and test which literally involves jumping off a boat into the ocean.
These are so addicting.
They're teasers for the "Air Crash Investigation" Series.
This is season 20, episode 7 "Atlantic Ditching"
So is crashing Helos
Co-Pilot: 3 weeks off I'd get bored.
Heli: 3 weeks off I'd have flight problems.
So sad to see this. Lost a friend of mine in a helicopter crash in 1976. He was in a Bell 47 LAPD that went down near Griffith Park in LA. May all of these people rest in peace.
I literally went thru this in real life, in a MH53 while in the US Navy! Exact same issue MGB failure as well (no power reaching the Rotors from the 3 T64 Jet Engines) but we got lucky and were already close to the water when it happened. Thanks to the Helo dunker training amongst others everyone Survived the Ditch. This Episode did a great job describing how it all unfolds.
tbh im scared of being in a helicopter now
@@TheWondrousMinds no
My father flies AW-189s offshore to the North Sea, he has flown 30 years and has had only a few accidents none resulting in major problems just hiccups, helicopters are really safe and the oil and gas sector have pumped millions into safety, itâs mandatory to every year complete a safety course of an accidental ditch in a swimming pool on land. You shouldnât be.
TBH im not
It's a wise thing to be scared of. While still safer than light aircraft there's a big gap between accidents where nobody dies and accidents where everyone dies, if it goes wrong it goes badly wrong.
@@sebbers Fixed >>>> rotary
My brother in law ditched a well paying job as an electrician at a wind turbine site because it was located at an altitude of 6000 fit and accessible only via helicopter.
The helicopter emoji on the title reduced my horrifying to 80% of watching this as a kid and dreaming of a pilot...
God bless all of you and your family and friends.
Happy New Year Smithsonian Channel.
That's the difference between planes and helicopters: If a plane's engines fail, you're a glider in mid-air. If a helicopter's engines fail, you're a safe in mid-air.
âI donât know whatâs worseâ. Famous last words
Sorry to see the loss of life on this one. Grew up in south Louisiana and worked off-shore during Summer breaks from college. Fondly remember the flights on Hueys and S-76s but often thought about a "What-if?" ditching in the Gulf!
I would later have Emergency Egress Training in Naval ROTC but in the "Dilbert Dunker" designed for aircraft egress.
There was a helo E E.T. on base in Pensacola that simulated helicopter ditchings. The pool was MUCH deeper and the simulator could roll over to the left or right and then sink. For helo pilots and crews, they had to show they could master the egress technique at least twice with blind-folds on and from both the cockpit and cabin areas. I understand there were many kicks to the face of those in the cabin trying to get out!
I THINK they started training some off-shore personnel in the techniques later on. It is a life-saver!
"WARDOG"
God bless everyone on flight, Prayers
I love aviation
Same
Me too
Same here, plus Iâm interested in it too
me too
Same
I worked that day, we dealt with the onslaught of search and rescue Cormorants and C130's, after they raised her from the seabed they had the wreck in one of the hangers back at the airport in St. John's, she was a tragic sight to see in person up close.
Very high risky job .. highly respect to the Pilots đđđđ
A former co-worker knew one of the passengers on that flight. We did a memorial ceremony on our rig (off Nova Scotia, not Newfoundland) on the anniversary of the crash each year for the length of our project
Iâve been watching Air Disasters for awhile now....and to be honest, Iâm not sure I can fly anymore. I think Iâd have a panic attack. As Iâve gotten older Iâve started to freak out about huge roller coasters too, I feel like Iâm about to fly out of the seat. Major anxiety.
VALIUM!
you realize how rare these are right
If this shit was common we wouldn't be making documentaries about them
I'm the complete opposite, the more I watch these, makes me love flying
Who is the lucky survivor? Was he came out of helicopter and swam across Atlantic to St John. Very impressive đđđđ
Well it was hardly gunna sink leaving a smile on everyone's face and yelling "YAY LETS DO IT AGAIN...."
Happy New Year!
Flew in a lot of S92s in the Middle East, a couple of them made emergency landings. WOW!
2:33 "Oh hell!" đ
Good job
This is why the ASTC is so important. If you're going to fly a helicopter or fly in one as a passenger regularly that will be over water it should be required to take that training
To sum up what happened. This happened on March 9th 2009. Basically a known (to helicopter company) defective stud in the gearbox oil filter assembly broke and was leaking out oil in flight but was given false reading, pilot error lead to the crash. The only survivor escaped the sinking wreckage about 30 feet down because the side he was sitting on was titled upwards so making escape possible. I think from crash to rescue was roughly two hours.
Possibility!
Who has done the voice over for this? And who is the sound guy?
I think the voice over, actor voices, background score overall all the sounds are great.
Im addicted to this
I think I know why people like these little cliffhangers so much: they almost all have that same way-too-happy ending for their type and people just wanna see how messed up it is in some context.
That and I guess since this is legitimately interesting...
Watching this on new year's Eve đđ Awesome
its awsome seeing 17 people died right
its not amazing
These videos are so interesting but it sucks that it takes people dying or getting hurt for me to be interested.
Please release a full episode.
3:05 You must have a very messed up sense of humour to send the same helicopter to transport the survivor
Once the main gearbox warning came on, they didn't stand a chance. It went down in 11 minutes but nearest land to them at the time was 30 minutes away.
Happy New year đđ
18 MINUTES AGO?!?!?
also,
HAPPY NEW YEARRRR!!!
Tomorrow is new year
@@renjithanoble8103 it's already 1:40 am in the Philippines here
I am from India it's 11:26 pm
@@renjithanoble8103 Oh ok đ
@@imnotvladimirputin here it is 22:06, we still live in 31.12
Yeah these smithsonian short clips are more frustrating than informative
This was not a controlled ditching, but a hard crash (landing) onto the surface!
This incident revealed numerous anomalies with the MGB and the RFM.
Happy new year
Bummer.
Will have to go that deep for the answer
Airplane crashes are "safer" than helicopter crashes
But..as i understand: the emergency checklist for that case recommended an emidiate " ditching" or " landing....why did the PIC not follow that specification to land " emidiate" ?...
While there was one survivor, two people managed to get out of the helicopter when it was sinking.
I feel bad for the guy that died after getting out of the heli
Do you know why the second person didnât make it?
@@Queenmarie88 and the second person was a woman not a man
i know who's that one survival
ofcourse
Camera-Man đ·
True
Hahaha well you got us there
Where we can get full episodes
It's so ironic when the first officer says that it's boring he gets something to dođ
not trying to be a smart ass,but theres alot of mistakes in these episodes,like in this one,the first officer is supposed to be in the left seat,not right
@@camilajimenez480 thats what i said...
@@aviatorboss9978 they did put him there.
@@aviatorboss9978 That wasn't a mistake, it was exactly what happened in the incident
@@aviatorboss9978 No in these helicopters the captain sits on the right the copilot sits on the left. Altho their ages were a little opposite as well - the captain was 34, the first officer was 47. The Captain was a native of St. Johnâs, NFL, while the first officer was from Comox, BC. It did not say which one of them had more flight hours.
Where is the rest of the documentary?
According to www.tsb.gc.ca report from 12MAR09, determined âmain gearbox malfunction, collision with water,â. Seventeen perished and one survived. Sikoorskyâs US division settled lawsuits out of court.
How does landing gear oil pump failure lead to this crash?
We want another complete documentry for one survivor
554' on the Ocean floor.. Well lets go get it...
Odd there was only one survivor he must have been the only one conscience after impact & managed to get out before it sank.
Never been inside an helicopter and I don't think I ever will thanks to this video
The chances of dying in a helicopter crash are lower than dying in a car crash.
@@michaelmyers1875 ok but youâre far less likely to die in a plane crash cuz planes have room for failure.
@@michaelmyers1875
Isn't this research limited to commercial dreamliners, and not helicopters..?
@@CrazyDash9 yes that's true, planes are very safe and pilots are trained for anything that can get out of control.
@@mukasajonathan2824 well yes, planes are fat better and safer than hellicopters, but a helicopter crash chance is still very low.
I had a cougar in 91.
Sick
I dont think I'm gonna fly anywhere now!!!!
Hi
In the intro it shows two pilots with oxygen mask on. Anyone know what episode that is?
A doomed aircraft is left to fly until it runs out of fuel. That is the episode
The cause of the crash also from gearbox pressure the tail rotor from the back of the s92 helicopter stopped working causing the helicopter to ditch into the Atlantic
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Its even worse now 5 weeks off damn its boring at shore
Even Tboiset opito training didnât save themâŠ
I remember seeing this documentary
Could you please brief it?
@@himanshunarayan2705 I don't remember what exactly happened because Idk much about helicopters. What I remember is that there was an oil leak in the gearbox which failed the engines
Me too
I don't know if removing seatbelts could have given them a chance to survive
That passanger suite just like a covin bag, maybe im wrong
What? Try that again buddy.
The problem with a helicopter is that it has no wings which mean when the engine fails it will fall like a rock.
That's not true. There is a thing called "autorotation", which enables helicopters to perform a safe landing/ditching in the event of total loss of engine power.
@@gjens4a108 I actually had a Robinson R22 practicing autorotation/engine failure while I was doing pattern work today.
Wow camera crew survived
*The camera crew are indestructible*
it makes no sense to fly a helicopter over the open ocean. Especially to get workers to a oil rig. A naval craft is much safer.
How tragic. don't helicopters have any flotation?
*NICELY FILMED*
3 bloody studs.
Even Chopters crashes are horrible
Chopper
Oil pressure problems and they still decide to fly at normal altitude in a helicopter that can fly just above sea level using visual
Helicopter wont sink that quick!
How did one person make it?
No camera man was hurt during this accident. Thanks đđ„°
The cameraman was the sole survivor
All due to the titanium bolts and steel nuts on the oil filter...
im just waiting until the next life to fly
And this is why I donât trust helicopters. Much rather fly on a plane
aye... with airplanes you have the ability to glide for quite a ways.... where as with helicopters (outside of auto-rotation), you pretty much drop like a rock from the sky... also airplanes have a much better safety record
@@ericmcquisten exactly. Also in places like Hawaii, helicopters do dangerous maneuvers to get to famous landmarks. However many helicopters have crashed due to how low they fly to the ground and how close they are flying to terrain
@@CrazyDash9 Agreed.... it is similar with smaller airplanes, that are often neglected as to maintenance, as they face less scrutiny and less regulation, and pilots will take more liberties with their own smaller aircraft, versus larger ones that they don't own and are more regulated.
That's all she wrote dear john!
These control room ppl can't give solutions to point but Dy need all d demonstrated by wireless itself now d result s few aviation industries are damn halaroius đ
The military train extensively to survive ditchings.
They weren't military, they were civilian oil rig workers.
The tail rotor is the problem
the 1 surviver is again the camera man
oops
intresting who was the survivor.
Robert Decker was the survivor
That's why I don't like flying.
You have to trust everyone to do there job.
Was this caused by mechanical failure or human failure
I can't remember.
Muncul Di beranda saya.
When was this
Read description
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Can someone please explain what the purpose of the brace position is? It adds absolutely nothing to safety
The point is it does but your comment made me laugh thxđ€Ł
Fixed wing gang better!
Indeed
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