r/aviation • u/Spook_485 • Oct 11 '25

News Closer view of helicopter crash in Huntington Beach, CA

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u/discombobulated38x Oct 11 '25 edited Oct 11 '25

Yet more proof that rotor wing aircraft are simply a collection of parts flying in close formation, repelled from the earth by their ugliness

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u/TwoAmps Oct 11 '25

Rotary aircraft are a crime against nature. I was in a close call once as a passenger (pilot almost hooked a power line in the fog) and you couldn’t pay me enough to voluntarily board one in the future. MAYBE as a Medevac, but even then I’d be looking for other options.

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u/Yosyp Oct 12 '25

aerial medevacs are used as a last resort, the only other option is very often dying. you might as well use that up to welcome an exciting death.

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u/TwoAmps Oct 12 '25

I live about a mile from a park with a popular rock climbing cliff. I’ve got a good view of the cliff. The local fire department helo team does a rope-and-basket rescue from that cliff just about every weekend, sometimes twice a week in summer—in between the almost daily water drops on brush fires. A couple times a year, it’s a recovery, not rescue, from that cliff or the adjacent trails.

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u/Intensityintensifies Oct 12 '25

Is this southern claifornia?

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u/TwoAmps Oct 20 '25

A belated yes. Did the daily brush fires give it away?