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Feb. 10, 1999

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This morning, February the 10th, 1999 a Russian built heavy lift helicopter had just finished delivering an A/C unit to a roof in down town Cape Town South Africa. As the pilot was hovering out he bumped a roof  top billboard with his tail rotor..
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Here the big twin engine bird begins his fatal right peddle turn.
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This is a telephoto shot, so the distance can fool you, but now the big bird is only inches from catastrophe.
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This is just before or just after the moment of contact. The digitizer I use is close to worthless, so it is not only vary difficult to pick the exact frame you want, it takes many many tries. So like I said, this is just before or just after the hit. I giving up trying to capture the exact moment after 6o+ tries.
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Un like the Titanic that also lost it's battle with gravity, sinking much more rapidly than thought possible (I think a tad less than 2 hours) the Russians ship begins it last moments as gravity begins to takes over.
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From the above foto to the last foto on this page, amazingly, took between 3 n 4 seconds.
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Not much needs to be said, the end is near. The Russian helicopter who's rotor system rotates in the opposite direction as all but the French's products begins a slide to it's right. By looking at the video, it seems the main rotor never contacted the billboard, just the TR. I always thought the TR blade would be on the other side of the tail boom having this rotation, Obviously I am wrong. But if  the TR blade would have been on the the other side, it is possible this fatal crash would not have happened.


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By this time, the videographer was showing his quick reactions because the helicopter goes out of frame as you can see above, he is obviously heading for cover/safety.
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This is the aftermath on a roof top below. Luckily no one on the ground was hurt, but all 4 aboard the craft were killed, hopefully instantly by looks at the flames. Remeber, from the moment of contact with the roof top billboard, it took less than 4 seconds......
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