Plane Hits Helicopter Rotor Downwash 

That first clip could’ve been deadly so easily. What was ATC doing?!?

The downwash from helicopters can be so intense that a lot of the time even light helicopters are categorized as a medium weight aircraft, so that there can be a sufficient amount of separation so that this doesn’t happen

I was there in Puerto Rico when that pc12 got rolled. It was right after Maria hit and isla grande was an extremely busy uncontrolled airport due to a lack of power. The pilots got parked and were visibly shook, the fo said he had to fire wall it to keep the plane flying. They were one of the hundreds of flights we saw from Florida for hurricane recovery. A few days later the same thing happened to a landing 172, they were not as lucky and got flipped on landing, had to be taken to an already over taxed hospital. That said working that week at isla grande was the most exhilarating time of my ramp career. Between running the million air ramp and being asked by name by the airport to assist in vip movements is something I’ll never forget. And before you comment where was ATC, ATC DID NOT EXIST. That hurricane knocked our radar in the entire Caribbean, there wasn’t a tower working on that island, the controllers lost contact with you almost off the coast of Florida, and didn’t see you till you got back.

The Platus PC 12 showing off how much power it has to pull out of the near stall!

6 plus bounces on one landing...gotta be a record. Go Latam!

What in the world was that first clip? Saying "That should not have happened" would be the understatement of the year.

1:14 there's something oddly poetic about those graceful birds in contrast with this lumbering jet struggling in slow-motion.

For the first clip, I'm from Puerto Rico this happened after Hurricane Maria at the TJIG airport. I understand that there was no ATC due to lack of electricity at that time the airport was CTAF.

13ft of wing flex on an a380 is blowing my mind

The RAF wanted to do a landing of Chinnocks at our gliding club en-route to Anglesey. We stopped flying for a whole morning to avoid downward issues....

1st clip was pure chaos :D

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Blackhawk in the world of helicopters, is a high capacity heavy chopper. It's impressive PC12 was able to recover after entering its downwash. It goes to show how powerful PT6 turbine engines are and how good PC12 low speed characteristics are(pilot skills as well). But this situation should not have ever allowed to happened. Someone definitely got a good scolding after that.

Those bouncy landings looked like I was flying

Why are they even so close?

The LATAM pilot asked... how many landings can we get for 1 landing fee haha😅😅

1. In the case of that 767 I consider that it's the PIO in pitch that caused the increase in total lift when pitching down and the plane got off the ground for a moment when the spoilers were not extended. This bouncing was rather only induced by the pilot alone as there are no updrafts at ground level. Updrafts need some height to have enough intensity to be felt! For who doesn't know, pitching down on non-canard airplanes increases the total lift before the wings AoA starts to decrease and lift start decreasing along with it as well, while pitching up does the opposite and momentarily decreases the total lift before the AoA on the wings starts to increase and have the total lift start increasing as well. There was a famous YF-22 crash video due to a FBW bug and the pilot had difficulties controlling the plane in pitch and crash landed it on the belly on the runway. In that video everyone can see that whenever the plane was pitching up, initially the whole plane would start descending as a whole before getting enough AoA to start climbing and when it pitched down it whole started climbing a bit before the total lift actually started getting lower according to the AoA. 2. The A-330 simply flared too late. There was no rough wind as well. That 737-8 indeed had rough air problems but the pilot didn't use aileron at all, but just a left rudder and very late. He should've used ailerons as needed and not waited and hoped that the plane would re-level by itself without correct intervention. The rudder is the worst input for roll control as it gives the least predictable results with very high latency / inertia!

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Great video as always. So happy to be one of the clips! Thank la for using it!

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2:25 What I find particularly interesting about this clip is watching the wing being forced down when the aileron goes up.

I feel like there has been a significant lack of Aerosucre flights in here lately...

It still blows me away that up to 560 tons can be ‘hung’ from the wings of an A380.

Great video!😸

This was likely an uncontrolled field. The Pilatus was probably on final for the last 3 to 4 minutes. The helicopter looks like it just departed. I've had this happen flying a 182 w a westland medical heli. They decided to hover taxi along a parallel taxiway while I was rounding out in the flare and almost flipped me over. As much as pilots have technical knowledge, it takes some experience to know not to lift next to a runway when someone is on final and to go around when a heli decides to depart when you are short final.

That Latam cargo plane landing was normal. The pilot is Capt Kangaroo, a new guy from Australia... oh wait I just heard he's left Latam and joined Virgin Atlantic...

Did the Latam pilot get charged for 6 landings ?

Where’s my 11 more second of aviation gone😢😮

Thank-you 😊, I can go about my day now.

Credit to Pilatus for designing plane with outstanding low speed performance

Had a VHS home video from when I was a kid. There were some museum UH-1 hueys coming in at a really small local airport, and a pilot ignored ATC. Basically hit the wash as he was taking off and wound up with two shattered legs. Ouch. Was mid to late 90's.

I was once in a gazelle helicopter and I flew through the dirty air left behind a chinook. There was an almighty bang and every single light on the central warning panel illuminated briefly. To say that it scared the hell out of me doesn’t even come close!

Lots of educational footage on this one

2:23 yepp this view is my most favourite when the wing starts producing lift and flexes.. the second one is several seconds after v2, when you see the ground starts to move slower, and creates the sense that your plane is like floating mid air... 🥰

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"Yikes !!!" That's one word that comes up quite often over the last 3 minutes.

No bounces for A330. Nice landing in fact. No problem

Intense aviation moments captured! From challenging landings to incredible aerodynamics, these clips showcase the dynamics and complexities of flight.

The great thing with a PC12 is that if they have an engine failure they just pull the nose up 70 degrees, beta the prop and enter autorotation for a soft landing :)

That must have been terrifying suddenly falling at such a low altitude.

It's only 2 minutes and 45 seconds of aviation. I want my money back. 🤣🤣🤣 Great job as always. 💜

That 3 minutes goes by too fast damn it!! Time to hit up the playlist I think haha.... :)

That Fiji landing in Adelaide Australia looked like it was so close to diaster.

All hail to Landing Structures Engineers! Amazing durability time after time!

That first one @0:12 could have been disastrous.

That Latam Cargo pilot was trying hard for the 3 wire.

Who the he!! cleared that Sikorsky to cross right in front of the Pilatus on short final? If that was done in controlled airspace then the controller ought to be fired

1:29 I have no idea how the landing gear doesn't just snap off under that imense amount of sideways torquing.

I've been a passenger on Boston landings like that on a few occasions. It's usually a bit scary on calm days because it seems you're going to land in the sea. But on windy days it can be a white-knuckle experience-even for veteran fliers like me!😳😬 That Quantas takeoff was a great example of the physics involved in flight.

Doesn't matter where the footage is shot; there's always a British guy going "Oooh!" In the background 😂

Yay my home town Adelaide is mentioned!

Liked the birds singing in the Fijian clip 😎

Pilots often fail to realize the difference of air turbulence between propelling a plane forward and maintaining a helicopter vertically up in the air.

ATC: Pilatus, report downwash in sight. Pilatus: Roger that we'll... OHHHHHHHHHHH GOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDD!

That first pilot is one hell of a experienced one!

I liked watching the wings slowly bend up, also on the 747

I love the Fiji Airways livery 😍

Holy *hrist !! That very first clip (with the Pilatus), had me worried about the condition of my underwear ! 😬

** Question.. WHY did you cut that first clip so short? The PC-12 was still struggling to maintain control after he made the poor decision to land behind a Blackhawk but you ended the clip. Please upload the entire video. Thank you.

A UH-60 weighs 22,000 pounds and it's supported 100% by thrust when in hover. The downwash is no joke. I'd rather his 737 wake turbulence than a UH-60 downwash.

Do post if you come across any Embraer Legacy 600 footage.

I like how the one plane landed six times on one trip down the runway! That is some good practice.

That Fiji landing 😳😳😳

All the clips but the last two were actually very dangerous this week 😭

The Fiji Airways footage is gorgeous! Birds tweeting in F sharp while your drunk uncle slowly falls into the BBQ...almost.

Which airport was the FJ Max landing at?

you owe me 12 seconds of aviation

Ayo that first one is Isla Grande airport! Never thought I’d see my home airport here. Too bad it was under these circumstances.

Where’d that happen @? (PC-12 vs BlackHawk-Rotor Wind)

South-American pilots are really just something else🤣🤣always something funny from them

yo that first video was where I study at when was this?!

That Latam should have been a go around, geez!

All of these clips is literally me trying to land in any flight simulator 🥲

that LATAM 767 was ...interesting to say the least! Wonder what was up in the cockpit?

I’m always nervous flying in and out of Logan in Boston. Also I’m still weary of the Max 8. Sorry.

The A330 landing gear was designed so well that it makes even a hard landing look like a butter.

That Virgin A330 had the smoothest hard landing

That virgin atlantic almost recreated the finsl push

For some reason watching the Latam Cargo trying to set down, I thought I could hear an excited voice going, "Weeeeee..... Weeeeeeee... Weeeeeeeeeeeee!"

Regarding the helicopter down wash? What the heck was that Pilatus pilot thinking? What the heck was the tower thinking for clearing that landing?

heli: my blades are bigger!

I'd like to know which airline's A380 that was. 🤔🤔🤔

No one gonna talk about the Cessna with its nose on the ground in the first clip?

Thats called a genuine BOING LANDING YOU KNOW BOING, BOING, BOING!!!!!!!

0:42 no applause for you there captain.

Clips like the 767 repeat deflections make me realise how much more realistic flight Sim is than I thought.

This channel should be renamed..."3 minutes of crosswinds on landings"

Notice that during the LATAM landing the spoilers extend, retract, and extend again.

Im baffled how a pilot of a high performance turboprop aircraft lets itself fly so close to that heli

On the 767 cargo "landing", did they forget to arm the Speed Brakes?

0:27 “whoa!” - cameraman narrowly averted missing the entire incident

The virgin 330 did NOT bounce The lower rear tires on the tilted truck grazed the runway on the initial flare.

The first one was filmed in the Isla grande Airport in San juan puerto rico

2:00 There is no bouncing. Main landing gear touched by one axis only.

this is why I don't trust aircraft. any second can be your last 🤣

How it hit the heli?

The first clip can be a really useful meme format.

Once I was flying back home and on the wings I could see sparks. I ignored it for 5-10 mins and when I looked back it stopped sparking

Surely the aircraft in the first clip should have been further apart? The issues with flying through another aircraft's disturbed air have been know for decades!