Brazil Helicopter Falls Apart During Landing (VIDEO)

Have you ever dreamt of soaring high above the ground on a helicopter flight? The video above might make you reconsider.

A rescue helicopter fell apart (luckily, shortly after landing) in the Brazilian state of Para. Footage shot by the Para Fire Department on Wednesday showed the copter heavily vibrating before completely disintegrating. According to the Telegraph, Brazil's Regional Service for the Investigation and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents is looking into the accident. 4 people reportedly were injured in the crash.

Watch the helicopter come apart and the immediate aftermath in the video above.

Comments

[g5user1usa]

08:46 AM on 02/28/2012

Brazilian manufacturing at its finest. Ai carumba!

[Daniel Velasquez]

03:14 AM on 02/28/2012

The 2 comments I made were already made... I should hire a writing team for new material.

[steves1709]

12:20 AM on 02/28/2012

Once the vibration was too great, couldn't they activate the ejection seats?

[liephman88]

05:12 AM on 02/28/2012

There are no ejection seats in helicopters, where would you go? into the blades or straight at the ground?

[steves1709]

12:14 PM on 02/28/2012

Apparently, some folks couldn't see my tongue-in-cheek expression when I was typing my post...!! ;-D

[Rodney Davis]

12:17 AM on 02/28/2012

Must be American made.

[nhfireman]

10:29 PM on 02/27/2012

They are lucky it did not come apart in the air.

[Formerinfantry]

12:38 AM on 02/28/2012

What happened in this video can't happen in the air...Actually the way to stop what was happening would have been to get airborne again. It's called ground resonance.

[FavorProgress]

09:55 PM on 02/27/2012

An explanation will emerge after inspections, until then these comments are purely speculative at best.

[Formerinfantry]

12:39 AM on 02/28/2012

It's pretty obious that ground resonance is what caused it.

[belldn3]

09:38 PM on 02/27/2012

Was it made in China?

[mail4warding]

10:52 PM on 02/27/2012

no, in detroit on monday or friday... !-)

[steves1709]

12:17 AM on 02/28/2012

If it was Chinese made, it would have been recalled for lead in the paint.

[Leon Engelun]

09:24 PM on 02/27/2012

I clicked the video but it wasn't anything to do with a chopper. So I closed that off.

[No7]

09:23 PM on 02/27/2012

....what do you expect with Rosie O'Donnell on board.....grossly overloaded...

[frankc354]

09:21 PM on 02/27/2012

slightly used bird fixer upper low reserve bid early ad often winner responsible for pickup

[fredyacht1]

08:58 PM on 02/27/2012

Must have been built by Toyota

[steves1709]

12:18 AM on 02/28/2012

Toyota? I didn't read any evidence of the throttle sticking...

[Arekg12]

08:51 PM on 02/27/2012

Made in China?

[driller7530]

08:46 PM on 02/27/2012

nothing unusual there , earth resonance happens , although usually at liftoff with the tiedowns in place , not worth carrying for a solid week for sure , geez

[vtmilitia]

08:39 PM on 02/27/2012

Great story,too bad it was aired by the networks Saturday.

[bobwitmer]

08:25 PM on 02/27/2012

It looks more like a "hard landing." The tailboon broke off cleanly and theere is no pitch in the main rotor blades. A"vibration" alone would not do all this damage. Maybe if there was a main rotor blade strike, everything would go down hill real fast, but, not a single internal vibration.

[Formerinfantry]

12:40 AM on 02/28/2012

ground resonance isn't just some small vibration. go to youtube and type chinook ground resonance. The vibration really does tear a helicopter apart, but it is preventable.