This has got to be hands down the most intense helicopter crash video I’ve ever seen. The helicopter is wedged in a wall of a house with pilot dead and control panel broken, yet the rotor is still spinning at full speed and although the blades were snapped by the crash, their closeness to people and their homes makes for an incredibly frightening experience. The residents helped with the rescue in many ways, including by throwing water on the craft to cool the engine down.
The helicopter crashed on Monday January 21, 2013 in a residential area in north São Paulo but no residents were injured. There were 4 people in the helicopter – the pilot and 3 employees of Secretaria Municipal do Verde (Municipal Green Office) who took the flight to survey local greeneries and parks of 11 districts from the air. The 2 hour helicopter flight operated by Helimarte was booked by São Paulo mayor. All 3 employees survived with non life threatening injuries, but the pilot died upon impact. Five residential homes were damaged by the crash. The house in which the helicopter got wedged belonged to 45 year old gardener Ronaldo Bezerra Leite. At the time of the crash he and his wife were at work and their children of 9 and 10 were at the grandmothers.
The helicopter was piloted by 29 year old Marcelo Stella de Melo Ribeiro. The craft was in the air for 50 minutes when problems started. While hovering over the Jaragua area of São Paulo north, the helicopter dove towards the ground. The causes of the crash are being investigated. According to a spokesperson for Helimarte – a company that owned the crashed craft and employed the deceased pilot, the helicopter model Jet Ranger 3 “was airworthy” and “passed the annual maintenance inspection on November 1, 2012.” The spokesperson also said the pilot had “vast experience flying helicopters and possessed all required and necessary qualifications to operate the craft.” After 14 years in business, this is the first time a Helimarte operated aircraft crashed.
Helimarte executives said the company will be there for the family of the pilot, who was unmarried and had no children, and will provide families displaced by the crash with hotel accommodation.
The video is over 10 minutes long but the intensity keeps it interesting. Easily the sickest helicopter crash video I’ve seen:
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Never trust an helicopter transport service that promises to take you direct to your home.
Cannot believe more idiots werent killed. Who sprays water on what would be a fuel based fire with obviously busted live electric wires everywhere? Oh those da Silvas.
I was thinking the same thing!
I was thinking that too but I was also thinking witch Da Silva was going to jump into the spinning rotors.
ok, but just get to the chopper!! we can get truthegchoppererer GET onndkdosiei wrightght NOW!
Not run by SWISS AIR then ? They had a shocking record in the 70′s and 80′s.
What a great video. The people are fucking crazy , as surely there’s a risk of an explosion.
I’d be keeping my distance!
If you live in brazil, dying by helicopter ain’t a damn thing. Steppin out your door on the daily is a fuckin life decision. Haha.
I suppose the helicopter might grow if you water it.
LOL I found their dual hose fire department rather effective. Didn’t notice much of a fire or anything but maybe it was leaking fuel or something?
Your lack of knowledge of jet engines isn’t surprising…. Often times when a aircraft with a jet engine is in a crash and the throttle linkage is stuck, water can be sprayed into the intake and it will choke the engine out. Of course they all have bypasses but once a certain volume is attained, and the hose aimed past the bypass it will stop the combustion process. The chances of a fire wouldn’t be diminished with water, jet fuel has a very high flash point and water sprayed into a jet fuel fire will just spread.
i do not trust aircraft or pilots. what goes up, comes down and air crashes are brutal and you rarely survive. then again, whats the fuking difference when you die in the fv world? might as well get it over with since the world is not getting better anyway. the only peace is in death. till then it’s dog eat dog and watch out for treacherous bitches.
Dying in a plane crash wouldn’t be so bad. You get a great birds-eye view of wherever you’re about to die and you know it’ll be a quick death. Maybe. And if you survive, shit, you’ll have angina from all the vagina you’re pokin’ after telling that badass story.
Ubiquitous Mr. Buttcrack at 04:16. Was that a Brazilian fire drill/souvenir hunt? Somewhere out there in Brazilland is a very fast Ford Fiesta with a Bell jet engine.
LOL! Is that the same guy who’s sporting the padlock belt-loop accessory?
Those people sure know how to deal with situations. If a heli crash like that would happen overhere, everyone would stand around with hands in their pockets until papa fireman and papa policeman would come to aid.
It is the brazilian survival instinct, man.
I don’t think there’s much wrong with a population being rich enough to expect the services they pay for in taxes to come by and deal with bullshit like this. I sure as fuck wouldn’t want to deal with it, and I’m sure you wouldn’t either.
I wouldn’t hesitate to step in and help anywhere I could. There is no way I could just stand back and watch if I thought I could help in some capacity.
That happened to Ronaldo because of having an heliport in his roof.
LOL @ the cables or wires tangled around the rotor shaft. WHOOPS I hit some lines and now I am on BestGore.
Damn, I wanted to see what he looked like
I was thinking the exact same thing. Guess us on best gore, think alike! Lol
This is the kind of scene you get at an accident before the all mighty Yellow Caution Tape gets put up. Funny, because I always underestimated that stuff’s effectiveness until seeing this video.
I commend the people who were trying to help. That’s pretty damn brave to go near a still-running helicopter.
That’s so fucking gnarly the way the blade keeps spinning kinda makes you wonder what would happen if one of those dudes were to fall into it lol…CHOP! CHOP! CHOP!
If something like that got caught on video, then it would quite possibly be the greatest gore video of all time. Right up there with the Chainsaw Beheading!
I kept waiting for someone with flip-flops to show up and either fall into it, or the damn thing fly off and take a head off! Lol
That seemed unusual. I don’t believe I’ve seen a helicopter crash where the rotor or blades (or whatever it’s called) kept spinning! It’s like a mortally wounded animal, still lethal if you get too close, trying to get up, still wanting to fly… kind of unsettling. Creepy
Nice comparison @ It was me.
Thank you, drccoco!
Awesome video alright.
This situation had even greater potential if another piece of blade broke off and decapitated the dude on the roof.
On the bright side…they’re the only ones in their village with an air conditioner.
Well hell, I was so waiting for the spinning blades to chop chop chop some heads of flip flopping looky loos but that didn’t happen. Didn’t even get a good look at the mess I’m sure the pilot was after this crash. I give this video or score of 5 out of 10 :/
The sweet smell of aviation fuel in the house.
Ewwwwww!
Please Bestgore, let the sex/porn commercial at the very bottom please
No wait, nevermind. Found the solution by clicking the full screen button. Cheers
Air conditioning, HHHAAAAHHAAAAA!! Brokeback.
The guy on wreak turned off the engine I think. Then he grabbed the headset to call a Mayday…. Or talk to the DARMA Initiative.
That dude who climbs into the helicopter seems to know hat he’s doing… Got the machine stopped, and didn’t hesitate pulling on the headset. He either knows what he’s doing or he’s VERY good at pretending to know what he’s doing.
I’m disappointed, I was expecting to see the actual crash.
Jesus, these DaSilvas chimp out almost as much as coons. What a joke.
Maybe helicopters need big red chicken switches installed so people can hit them and turn that noisy cunt off, old mate next door was on nights and needed his 8 hours.