[Anaesthetised]

Ugh the number of people who don't know about helicopter blade droop.

[mattersin]

Originally Posted by Anaesthetised ↗

Ugh the number of people who don't know about helicopter blade droop.

You're exactly right. And they're made they're wrong about it being a sniper shot LOL fucking morons on this site.
The outer ring always hangs down further than any other part, especially when you're using the blade to push the helicopter downwards for landing which is what happened in video.

[Martano666]

Yeah I've heard people say before that you are supposed to stay ducked down when approaching are leaving a helicopter. This seems idiotic to me. Like what the fuck kind of design is that? But then again, we have motorcycles. Not exactly a good design either.

[jbell0129]

Damn what a way to go out. Smh

[johnny1124fla]

a "Mike Tyson" KO...ding ding ding

[gimlet]

It's a blessing that copter has a strong headlight, without it we would never have seen the cloud of pink mist. Reminds me of the year I taught high school chemistry and physics when I was 27, I would bang an eraser in front of the laser we used for experiments for a free Pink Floyd type light show...

[Hogmann]

On many helicopters the rotor disc is tilted forward in relationship to the plane of the Earth. So the rotor tips are closer to the ground at the front and higher at the back. The first guy to approach was far enough to the side that he was under the rotor disc.
Yes it's true you want to approach the helicopter from the front somewhat and not the back so the pilot can see you coming but how safe that is depends on how the helicopter is designed with this model which I can't identify from the video it obviously wasn't.
And that guy look drunk by the way he was stumble walking.

[arsonist_1]

If you've seen these types of accidents before you'll know how this happened.

[jintsy]

I think he was shot by a gang member from the Blades!

[DeadlySin]

Originally Posted by mattersin ↗

There's more blade length over-hanging from the front than the sides. Sorta like a balance bar. The front has little to no support of keeping the blades leveled, whereas the side of the helicopter has more support. Think of it as a push mower with the front on 2 inches while the back side is still on 4 inches. You're gonna cut deeper up front than the back. Helicopters work in the same way when using down force to land.
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You're exactly right. And they're made they're wrong about it being a sniper shot LOL fucking morons on this site.
The outer ring always hangs down further than any other part, especially when you're using the blade to push the helicopter downwards for landing which is what happened in video.

Holy fuck... There's a lot of stupid shit being said in this thread, but your comments are by far the most idiotic. I get most of you haven't been around helicopters, nor understand the physics behind them... But I think even the average layman would have a basic concept for how gravity works... You don't use the rotors to propel you downwards(In this situation). Gravity has a funny way of doing that job for you.

Centrifugal force prevents the blades from hanging down at the tips. Also, the blades have so much inertia at that rpm, grazing someone's skull isn't going to make them slow down.

If you want to understand what the guy did wrong, and why he was hit by the main rotor, you can find that by simply looking at the landing area. The heli landed on a hill side. The pilot has the rotor pitched forward to maintain level. The man approaches from the up hill side(front in this case). There's nothing inherently wrong with approaching a helicopter from the front under normal conditions. In these conditions though, it means your clearance is much less than idea. As the video demonstrates, it's easy to misjudge the main rotor's tips in low light conditions as well.

My advice to you; before getting on here and trying to explain something you clearly don't understand yourself, perhaps you should at least learn basic physics, then maybe go on to try and comprehend the physics behind helicopter flight. What did you accomplish by coming here and rattling off stuff you knew you didn't know anything about?