Top 5 Amazing Helicopter Emergency Landings

I can say for a fact that hearing air traffic control congratulate you for your successful crash landing are the most powerful words you will ever hear. When i was 16 I was in a tour helicopter crash and I had my eyes closed when we crash landed. the only reason I knew I was alive was that I could hear air traffic control saying "beautifully done God bless". I opened my eyes and could see emergency vehicles racing towards us and a crowd of people clapping and cheering that we were alive. Nothing will ever kill my faith in humanity after that day.

I used to work on oil rigs and have been in quite a few rough helicopter flights and landings and I’ve got to say all the pilots were exceptional at flying and all of them were The calmest people I’ve ever met and didn’t seem to have any nerves.

The news chopper pilot deserves some real serious kudos for his great job of landing without injuring others...

The definition of a Helicopter is as follows: One million random parts whirring around an oil leak waiting for metal fatigue to happen.

Those naval boys have got some balls. Landing a bird on the back of a ship in a 30 ft sea takes some nerve.

I piloted Hueys for 12 years, good job guys.

In the first clip, I didn't notice the deckhand staying as flat as possible until after the helo was stopped and he began to stand up. Dudes got balls. Had no place to run, but still has big balls

#1 rule in news reporting. Don't become the news.

Wow No.3 is outstanding! Obviously the rear boom is faulty and the pilot struggles to keep the helicopter from spinning - yet in the end he releases the pedal for a moment to let the copter turn around to a full horizontal stop just before he sets it to the ground. Impressive skills!

KTLA pilot....no words. Walking away...and he flew the shirt out of that craft to find a safe spot while it was on fire....definitely #1. Love heli's...and their operators. Wow...

That Navy pilot did a fantastic job landing in the heavy swell's of the sea on that ship. Wow

I DON'T KNOW but I think they're at FRANKLIN AND HIGHLAND

Landing on the helo-pad of that rolling deck was one of the most impressive demonstrations of piloting skill I have ever seen.

Dude in the number 5 news chopper did a better parking job than 99% of BMW drivers.

#5 could have turned deadly for everyone involved. Tail rotor struck the ground and sent the heli out of torque. Thank goodness for the safety net and quick reaction from the pilot slamming it on the ground. Look at the main rotor and how close it was pitched towards the guy taking cover. As for #1, whenever you see smoke like that coming out of the turbines it's ALWAYS a problem. It already started losing power and the pilot should have engaged auto-rotation procedure immediately. He was probably busy looking at instrumentation and didn't begin auto-rotation until 3:55. Must have been a great feeling coming so close to the ground and realizing you still had enough power to pick a proper landing spot, great work!

"SIR. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IS ON THEIR WAY I CALLED THEM." Great job lady. You saved the day.

number 2 is NOT an emergency landing.. it's the danish navy Practicing landing in bad weather.. youtube: Danish Defence MH-60R Seahawk bad weather landing

The background music seems MASH inspired. I just keep thinking of that bubble top medivac chopper from the opening.

The pilot of a Bell 206B JetRanger III activated the emergency floating system and made an emergency landing in the water, 10 miles from Sabine pass, Gulf of Mexico, TX. He and two passengers transferred to a life raft and were pickup up by the USCG.

About 15 minutes out from a firebase in Vietnam, the Huey I was on got hit and started burning. Our pilot made a u-turn and started back. We were losing altitude. I was a grunt just going back out to the boonies. We were just high enough to get over the wire at the end of the runway. The firetrucks were on each side as we were going. Our pilot didn't bother to hover. He just dropped it and we slid in. Me, and 5 other grunt, just took off running. Considering the amount of ammo, frags, claymores, and C4 we were carrying, we didn't want to stick around. Never found out who the pilot was but I hope he made it back to the world in one piece.