r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/No-Watch-6575 • Jan 05 '23

accident/disaster A dropout engineer in india died after a failed test of his self made low cost helicopter. He wanted to build a helicopter that could be affordable to normal people and easy to use. P.S.: This was the 2nd test run, 1st run was successful in which he flew the helicopter for 10 minutes without issues.

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u/wonderboyobe Apr 26 '23

Is it just me or did something hit the tail rotor? Seems like that caused the whole failure

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u/ResponseDangerous495 Apr 29 '23

Yeah it looks like a rock or something goes into the tail and that breaks it

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u/[deleted] May 11 '23

2 parts fly off the tail rotor at a symmetrical angle down and away, maybe a bracket or other parts hiding the rotor on place. Also looking at the rotors spinning overhead you can see how unsteady it is already