How to survive a helicopter crash

t's the ultimate underwater nightmare: the feeling of being trapped in a sinking helicopter after ditching in a river, and sinking into the deep.
It happened in March, when a tour chopper splashed into the East River, pulling five passengers to their deaths.
Would you know how to survive a similar fate?
Survival Systems USA, a company in Groton, CT, has been teaching underwater survival skills for twenty years. Eyewitness News Reporter Josh Einiger went along for the harrowing ride.
Step inside to experience the helicopter crash simulator called METS - Modular Egress Training Simulator. It can be configured to simulate any type of airplane or helicopter, and is used in ditching escape training.
Josh was taught to keep his eyes closed because in a real crash, the water may be full of hydraulic fluid or fuel that could blind him.
People are not supposed to rely on underwater vision because the light refracts and you could head towards a light thinking it's the sun on the surface, when it's really a light attached to your airplane.
Dive in with Josh Einiger for an exclusive look at escape training for surviving an aircraft crash... could you survive?
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[@sauceyezt4126]

~Long.Live.Kobe Bryant~ 🕊

[@michaelpimentel8181]

Kobe

[@corazonmedrano4982]

Searching this kind of video because of Kobe.
I hope one day , Authorities should require to wear passengers safety gear (like parachute) to prevent or avoid helicopter accident like this.

[@Aly-cr5tl]

If your aricraft crashes into the mountainside while flying in thick fog, there is no device, training or whatever that will increase your chances for survival - except pure luck! Kobe Bryant and his friends were just very unlucky (+RIP+). The only way to prevent casualties in such accidents is not to fly in the first place. It is everyones own choice!

[@kurasakiBLADE]

Came here bec of kobe

[@FairyGoddessLunaMoon]

Maybe you should not fly too high and choose right location

[@livetoday3041]

This si nt a crash. This is just drowning 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@jypperdido]

There is no training similar to Kobe's Holicopter crash

[@barbiegarl9899]

What if theres no water

[@pigeonmaster1361]

Barbie Garl boom

[@dl7281]

Don’t take a seat on a helo. Done.

[@CourtesyOfLeon]

But kobe died at ground not water

[@anonymouscommenter7978]

Instructions unclear, accidentally killed Kobe Bryant

[@noobking2548]

..

[@SB-dh9sb]

Wow bro your so edgy and cool you make fun of dead person 😛

[@nubbub800]

And thus is the reason I am not ever flying in a helicopter

[@mr.iforgot3062]

2nd

[@nightfury4283]

Kobe should have watched this🥺

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First

[@8Haloboy]

Kobe Bryant didn’t watch this one

[@michaelpimentel8181]

ur bad

[@MysticaLxMagic]

Not cool

[@chumplum2590]

😬

[@Mrcharles.]

The incident took place on land not water. Kobe and all the others would not make it either way.

[@8Haloboy]

charlie barnett 🗿