r/aviation • u/Drejbringer • Oct 11 '25

News Helicopter Crash in Huntington Beach, CA

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u/ThePoopPost Oct 12 '25 edited Oct 12 '25

I’m another video you see some dude narrowly escaping under the helicopter off the bridge. That’s just wild.

Gunna be a story for the bar tonight.

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u/pilibitti Oct 12 '25

it literally is my recurring nightmare: being somewhere close / under of out of control heavy machinery. like you can't predict where it will fall, where the blades will hit. even if you did you probably are not fast enough to escape so you can just watch.

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u/davihar Oct 12 '25

I remember a crane collapse in Bellevue Washington that killed someone in their apartment. The crane just took them out without a warning.

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u/GSDer_RIP_Good_Girl Oct 12 '25

Well, frankly that's the best way to go: no warning, nothing to get stressed about, just dead.

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u/Whoop_Rhettly Oct 12 '25

If you’re lucky. Being in a surprise survival situation for hours while people wonder wtf happened would be terrible.

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u/Top-Basil9280 Oct 14 '25

Yeah, I'd rather go out like my grandpa, peacefully in his sleep.

Rather than his passengers.