BO 105 with a Fatal Ending...

It was flown by Chuck Zimmerman. A very good pilot. This was an unfortunate day for Aviation. Another true rotor head gone. R.I.P. Chuck you really were an amazing over the top pilot. Things happen when you play with gravity...

yes there was a family of deer having a picnic you noob..

control lock-up?

Hot doggin' way to hard..Stupid idiot.

Scanfan-This video and many other helo. related vids was given to me on a cd-r by an intructor at a Bell field maint. course I went through a few years back.He told me that the pilot was demonstrating the manueverability of the BO105 for a Hollywood production co. that was gearing up for a Bond movie.Don't know if is true or not...Maybe I'll post some of the other vids. one of these days...

Spaz - thanks for posting it. Interesting that the NTSB confined their conclusion to that last maneuver with no mention of the context of the demonstration. Do you have any info as to why the aircraft was being flown so hard? Was it a sales demo? How'd you get the entire tape? And if he had not hesitated the recovery for that half second...???

Thanks for the info. scanfan.I've seen and heard conflicting info. about this video over the years.I flip-flopped back and forth about posting it but in the end,it might just give pause to a few of those "hot-shot" wanna-be's out there that even the best can make mistakes...

9/20/89 TUCKERTON, NJ
MBB BO-105 N5353V
1 Fatal
A/C ENTERED SHALLOW CLIMB & STEEP TURN AT LOW ALTITUDE. RECOVERY INITIATED, HELICOPTER STRUCK GROUND BEFORE RECOVERY. NO PRE-EXISTING FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION OF ENG OR AIRFRAME. MANEUVER MAX BANK 98 DEGREES & MAX ALT 75 FT AGL. RECOVERY NOT INITIATED UNTIL .5 SECONDS PAST APEX OF MANEUVER.

The NTSB determines probable cause of this accident as follows:

THE PILOT'S DELAY IN REMEDIAL ACTION BY DELAYING THE PULL-UP FROM A DESCENDING MANEUVER.

Thats sad :( the pilot was very talented, and the bo-105 is one of the most manuverable choppers out there. I hope it was quick for the pilot.

No it wasn`t in germany... R.I.P Boy... You`re my little hero ;)

Were any animals on the ground injured? XD

was it in germany?

This ist NOT Charly Zimermann!!!
This ist Sigfried (Ziggy) Hermann, he was a pilot too, and he worked together with Charly Zimermann!

rip a tallented pilot its a sad case of it was going to hapen sooner or later i prefer watching him in low flying bo105 particularly when he takes the top of a tree off magnificent

because not filmed on good qaulity equipment