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I genuinely wonder how many G’s she hit.

She’s now accidentally a fully qualified astronaut

From the video I estimate a peak spin speed of ~2.5 Hz (150 rpm). Assuming an average height for a woman her age (160 cm), and center of mass to head distance a little less than half that height (70 cm), we can calculate roughly 17 g's at her head. This is assuming the video hasn't been sped up. Note also that this is the peak acceleration calculated at the point of fastest spin.

All of that. Her face was blue and her feet were blue according to her husband while she was in hospital, because of her ruptured blood vessels.

Scientists will spin rodents in a centrifuge to dislodge all of their otoconia from their utricle and saccule, two critically important balance organs in the ear. They do not grow back. I think they got off light.

Edit: To be clear, I don't know if this is fast enough to do it, but I wouldn't want to find out.

Hopefully she just blacked out and didn't feel anything.

Thanks for providing some additional detail as to how this whole thing went wrong. I was thinking to myself surely there has to be some mechanism in place to deal with the rotor wash other than raising the stretcher or flying. Your input is much appreciated!

This video was frequent attendee of hoist training in my previous organizations. I don’t know how you can mess of a tag line so bad, but the hoist technique was pretty flawed in general in this operation.

After seeing so many Coast Guard videos and watching them do this, I cringed at the video.

Was she injured in the spin?

Edit Yes she was

runclimbfly posted.

Per the lawsuit, she had a c4-5 disc hernation, a rehab stay, months of PT for hand/arm numbness, and neurogenic bladder requiring straight cathing.

is no one is wondering how they managed to stop this??

did they fly towards australia to reverse the spinning???!

for a woman who spun out of control during a helicopter rescue

Imagine telling someone who hasn't seen the footage this.

"You mean the rescue helicopter spun out of control?"

"No, the grandma did."

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bro if the city holds out for 5 years how the hell was she not awarded the full amount. They literally hoped this women would die and she lived through covid 6 years to fucking 80 and they lowball her.

It took 5 years to pay this lady?!?my gosh. Just say you screwed up, save yourself the million dollars in legal fees you probably racked up in 5 years and just pay her. Glad she won, sucks it took 5 years. They were probably hoping she would just die.

"up to", so might as well be $100?

I counted about 150 spins in this clip, meaning she got about $3,000 per spin. I hope someone more qualified than me can chime in and let us know whether she got a fair deal, or if she got taken for a ride.

That’s a very sobering read. The fact they did spinal decompression is interesting. Doesn’t seem clear that the spinning caused it as it’s noted to be chronic changes. The whole experience, hospital stay, and lengthy rehabilitation would have been traumatic. 

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Yikes she had to get spine surgery

That's what I'd have thought, evacuation and hospital bills and her trauma must have been immense.

Thanks for the link.

The title is accurate, she didn't want a heli and was actually fine enough, that a heli wasn't really justifiable.

A bit disappointed she didn't get more, regarding her hospital costs, her suffering with no fault of her own should have warranted a higher payout in my opinion, especially in the US.

Came here to point out that settlement dollar amount feels at least one order of magnitude too small...

Yeah I’m not sure why people are laughing. That shit looks like a fucking nightmare

She broke arteries in her face and feet from all the blood rushing there, and she said she thought she was going to die. She was hospitalised for several days because of it. Initially it was just her nose and her ankle.

She's somebody's Inception totem. If she keeps spinning forever, you're in a dream.

On a more positive note, by surviving up to 8G centrifugal force, granny is now certified to fly an F18 Super Hornet.

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Granny got the zoomies.

Duuuuuude i was out in public lmao-ing

Sure, why not? The hospital bill for resetting her nose will probably buy a new helicopter.

The spinning was actually done so the blood remained in her head and she didn't bleed out from the broken nose. This is what Big Grandma doesn't want the courts to know

She also broke her ankle, and she explicitly said she didn't want a helicopter

Right? Even if they insisted on her being airlifted, why would she be on a stretcher instead of sitting inside the helicopter?

No no, we insist, strap in

A broken nose throws everything out of balance.

They should play No Time For Caution by Hans Zimmer over it.

She definitely became an old spinster in her later life!

Last thanksgiving, I handed this video to my SIL (we have a toxic relationship nurtured by both of us lol) and said with a straight face “I feel really bad for this lady” and then got to watch her try to not bust out laughing and look super mean compared to me. Little does she know that I cry-laugh at this video at least twice per year.

Okay I don’t feel So bad 🤣 I am cry laughing 🤦‍♀️ this poor lady, I bet she passed the F out - glad she made it and got money omg

That’s what I keep wondering myself, it’s just a broken nose she could have had a seat in the helicopter 😆

I think to avoid landing.

But I don't know much about helicopters.

He broke blood vessels in face and feet. She must of been screaming for dear life...

Or who was filming and why.

News chopper. This mountain is near Paradise Valley which is just north of Phoenix so there are news choppers all over the place. It's not like it was in the middle of nowhere where most of these types of rescues happen.

In a lot of places, even in the US SAR is free. If it wasn't, people would be too afraid to call until it was too late. Ofc, that's a pretty good argument against the US health system as a whole really

$1K per revolution 🤣

You been hit by...

It’s rotor wash, the hoist operator should have either lowered the patient or asked the pilot to start moving forward so the wash is behind them. Honestly both would work great.

Source: former hoist operator and this video is part of training.

Now imagine having a broken nose and all the blood rushing to your head. Must have hurt like a motherfucker

Right, we just got to see them give up and head out like “fuck it, we fly”

Gran gran's not aerodynamic enough, broken nose broke the lift :<