Important Safety Tip

Don’t attempt to steal a helicopter unless you can actually, you know, fly a helicopter.

Multiple helicopters were broken into and one was operated before crashing on Wednesday morning at the Sacramento Executive Airport, according to the Sacramento Police Department.

Police say that they received several reports of multiple helicopters being broken into early Wednesday morning.

Officers that responded found a helicopter with major damage that “appeared to have been operated,” police said in a statement.

The damaged helicopter was left on its side and is a Bell 429 model, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

A further investigation showed that when the helicopter crashed it also damaged several other helicopters.

Yeah, I’d say there was some serious damage.

I have so many questions about this. Like: What did they think they were going to do with the helicopter after they stole it? Take it for a joy ride and return it? Try to sell it? Just how do you go about selling a stolen helicopter? Did they think regional air traffic control was just going to ignore it? (“Hey, stray helicopter! No biggee!”) Did he not realize Sacramento Police have helicopters to chase you with? (Oh yeah: There was an alert.)

No suspect in custody, so police are looking for a doubly lucky dumbass…

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16 Responses to “Important Safety Tip”

  1. BigFire says:

    Bank robber John Killick was sprung from prison by his girlfriend who uses an inoperable Thompson submachinegun to hijack a helicopter while on a tour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Killick_(Australian_criminal)

    I’m kinda of surprise there’s a whole list of other helicopter prison escapes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopter_prison_escapes

  2. jimmymcnulty says:

    Wow. I thought I did dumb things when I was young.
    I am betting social media attention seeking has something to do with it.

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  4. Kirk says:

    The average idiot is amazingly dumb, when you encounter them in their natural setting.

    I can’t recall too many cases of people stealing aircraft and making good on their ambitions. Too many skills required, too much experience. It usually ends about the same as that numbskull who stole that plane off the runway at Seattle-Tacoma International a few years back.

    Ah, well… Entertaining to watch evolution in action.

  5. Mike V. says:

    Definitely FUBAR.

  6. Larry says:

    I was in a hard landing helicopter crash. One of the skids broke and the still spinning main rotor hit the runway and broke off pieces of the blade. Aviation fuel also leaked out but somehow did not ignite from the blade spokes Doubly lucky is true.

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  8. Nine says:

    ” that numbskull who stole that plane off the runway at Seattle-Tacoma International a few years back.”

    Hey, that’s the Sky King! His name should be spoken of in veneration. A giant among men.

  9. Curtis says:

    Why steal a helicopter? Why to fly it to the Ukraine and sell it them of course!

  10. DrTorch says:

    It all was so easy on the helicopter flight simulator

  11. Kendall says:

    You have to wonder if the thief had been flying helicopters in simulators and though he knew enough to fly it… Maybe they just wanted to see if they could take off and land right away.

    The fact that it was on the side means it did go up at least a little.

  12. GWB says:

    Kirk says:
    March 16, 2023 at 3:47 AM

    Ah, well… Entertaining to watch evolution in action.

    Really sucks if it’s your very expensive piece of equipment with which they do it, though.

    And this guy(s) is very lucky he didn’t get enough altitude to make something catch on fire when he smacked it into the ground.

  13. RockThisTown says:

    It’s all fun & games until someone loses a gyro.

  14. Dwight Brown says:

    I’m never surprised by any of the lists on Wikipedia: more often, I’m surprised that there’s NOT a list on Wikipedia.

    That said, “List of helicopter prison escapes” is probably going on my list of best Wikipedia lists.

  15. Tina848 says:

    Drunk and stupid comes to mind….

    It seems it is always the liquor.

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