Hudson River : Helicopter Crash
Aviation experts have suggested that ‘mast bumping’ could be the reason behind the tragic helicopter crash into Manhattan’s Hudson River recently.
- Mast bumping is a helicopter issue where the rotor hub strikes the mast, often in two-bladed, teetering rotor systems like Bell models.
- It happens during low-G maneuvers or abrupt control inputs, disrupting rotor balance.
- This can cause the hub to hit the mast, leading to loss of control or rotor separation, risking a crash.
- Hudson River is a river in New York State, United States.
- It flows almost entirely within the New York state, the exception being its final segment, where it forms the boundary between New York and New Jersey for 21 miles (34 km).
- It is named after English Sea Explorer, Henry Hudson.
- It originates in several small postglacial lakes in the Adirondack Mountains near Mount Marcy (1,629 metres), the highest point in New York, and flows about 315 miles (507 km) through the eastern part of the state.
- Lake Tear of the Clouds is regarded as the source of its main headstream, the Opalescent River.
- The water from the Hudson River flows into the Upper New York Bay.
- It drains an area of 34,628 sq.km.
