My personal guess is this pilot didn’t really want for this maneuver to go the way it did. Of course, I am only saying this because the touch down seemed to be a little bit on the rough side, a look at the slow motion and you’ll understand… also I am wondering what were those passengers thinking after the touch down…
This video reminds me of a joke I heard some time ago. A young co-pilot performed an extremely rough landing… and such was the case that the company he was working at had a rule: the pilots of the aircraft had to stay near the door and wave their passengers goodbye. After his very hard landing, the young co-pilot did not have the guts to look his passengers in the eye. As each passenger passed in front of him the only relief he got was from hoping they will not pass any smart comments regarding his landing. Finally the last passenger was preparing to step out of the plane, an old lady… she approaches the co-pilot and asks him:”Son, did we land or were we shot down?”… that’s what first came into my mind when i saw this landing.
This Bk-117 was coming in to a near drowning scene and everything looked alright. Unfortunately one of the engines of the helo fails and the pilot is forced to make this dramatic hard landing. Check out the story for more details of this incident in Phoenix.
You probably know who Jurgis Kairys is. He is the Lithuanian pilot flew his plane under a bridge while inverted. Here he is, taking off and pulling hard on the stick resulting in a maneuver similar to the one performed by the Sukhoi Su-27 jet: the Cobra.
“On behalf of the Dutch crew I’d like to apologize to the Austrian football team for this small inconvenience. We wish you a lot of success against the Dutch football team.” This is really one of the funniest aviation related commercials ever.
This pilot was trying to entertain the crowds with some low level aerobatic stunts. Worked just fine but he pulled out too low, sending him on a one way ticket trip to destination dust. And boy, did he bite the dust…
