GRAPHIC VIDEO: Pilot nearly decapitated during race take off - Charles D'Alberto

Thom Richard was preparing to take off in the Gold Formula One event at the National Championship Air Race in Nevada on Sunday when his engine started sputtering.

The Swedish-born pilot immediately turned his engine off. He opened the canopy of his plane, Hot Stuff, as he signalled to ground crews that he couldn’t fly.

However, it appears this message wasn’t delivered to three planes waiting to take off behind him.
He hoped the third plane would manage to fly over him. Instead, it hit him with a violent and loud impact at almost 100 km/h.

“Three things immediately came to mind. Make yourself as small as possible to avoid further injury until things stop moving,” Richard said.

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Helicopter pilot brilliance? or TOTAL insanity? - Charles D'Alberto

This has to be both the scariest and most brilliant piloting i have EVER seen... This guy is NUTS!!!

How did the organizers of the event even allow this to happen, with all those people in the stands? A power or engine failure would of been catastrophic...Watch the video, and you be the judge!

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Austrian stunt pilot Hannes Arch dies in helicopter crash - Charles D'Alberto

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BERLIN –  Energy drinks brand Red Bull says Austrian stunt pilot Hannes Arch, a member of the company’s extreme sports team, has died in a helicopter crash in the Alps.

The 48-year-old was flying back from a mountain hut in the Grossglockner area of Carinthia, in eastern Austria, when his helicopter struck a cliff late Thursday. A passenger was seriously injured.
Red Bull said Arch had been a member of its extreme sports team for over 25 years.

In a statement Friday, the company said that in his younger days Arch “was ranked as one of the world’s leading mountaineers and climbers, and was one of the first aerobatic paragliders.”

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