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“We can see the wreckage and the situation does not look good,” the head of lran’s Red Crescent, Pirhossein Kolivand, told state TV.
“We can see the wreckage and the situation does not look good,” the head of lran’s Red Crescent, Pirhossein Kolivand, told state TV.
Why does any country even transport a president by helicopter? Seems needlessly risky, I wouldn’t get in one unless it was an emergency.
They’re cool as hell, but I still don’t trust them.
They’re probably much safer when you don’t buy them from Boeing
The odds of being in a fatal helicopter crash are impossibly small. 0.63 out of 100,000 in the USA
https://www.airmedandrescue.com/latest/news/us-helicopter-accident-rate-analysis
And if you read up on what causes a lot of these fatalities, you see a lot of accidents with pilots and personal aircraft, or pilots trying doing things like high risk medical evacuations.
The chances of dying in a helicopter air taxi are insanely small.
In the USA. An old helo with questionable access to parts….perhaps lower odds. In bad weather, lower still.
Properly maintained helicopters are safe in safe weather. It was the weather that killed them here. Street traffic presents a lot of security concerns as well.
If street traffic is a concern, may I suggest you fly at a slightly higher altitude.
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Cars become a lot safer when they close entire stretches of highways for you, the driver is a professionally trained driver, and never gets distracted or drunk while driving; and you’re driving something heavily up-armored.
Helicopters are very complicated machines for whom total engine failure inevitably leads to a crash- a crash that generally people can’t walk away from.
Yes it’s possible to safely land a helicopter without power- and most everywhere doing so is part of pilot training for rotary licenses. Those training landings are a) known, b) in ideal locations where it’s safe to land, c) generally in an aircraft that hasn’t lost control.
Even then, they fuck it up they’re dead.