But he eventually summons the inner strength necessary to drag the helicopter over 10 metres (32ft 9ins) - beating his intended target of 8 metres (26ft 3ins).
Aviation experts say the accident might have been caused by the pilot becoming disoriented in the fog while some raised questions of whether the helicopter should have even been flying.
Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, the first-ever and only female combat helicopter pilot in the Nigerian Airforce has died. The tragic incident occurred in Kaduna yesterday after she sustained head injuries from a road accident.
The witness who saw the helicopter come down, and took the pictures of the flaming wreckage, told The Sun that: 'One of the helicopter doors landed about 10 to 15 feet away from us. Helicopter parts were flying everywhere.
Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has just tweeted to confirm he's safe and sound after a helicopter carrying him and his crew crash-landed in Kabba, Kogi State.
Mubarak says he learned the basics of helicopter flying through the internet after hedecided it would be easier to build a chopperthan a car. Flying his creation is easy, he claims. ??
The remain of Kobe Bryant and his 13-year old daughter, have been released to their family a week after they died in an helicopter crash that took nine lives in California.
According to an eight-page report from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch, the helicopter suffered a mechanism failure after the pilot's pedals disconnected from the tail rotor blades, thereby causing the £6.7million 2016 Augusta AW169 helicopter
Barely less than a week after Kobe Bryant's chopper crash-landed killing the retired NBA star and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, more revelations have now emerged that are lifting the lid on what really went wrong with the helicopter.
The Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, NCAT, Zaria, has no single helicopter for training, the Acting Rector of the institution, Shaka Imalighwe, has disclosed.
Asake drops from a helicopter for his performance at 02 Arena.Asake's entrance for his latest show at the 02 was one of the major highlights of the concert as the singer was seen arriving on stage for the show from a helicopter in the middle
The classmate who knocked down first female combat helicopter pilot of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) with a car reportedly "has no driver's licence". , Arotile died from head injuries she sustained after being knocked down by a car driven by