WATCH: Helicopter crashes after pilot loses control during takeoff

A video of an out-of-control helicopter crashing into bits during takeoff is going viral on the social media application Twitter.

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The viral video of the crash showed the helicopter taking off from a mini helipad. The pilot lost control of the flying machine, which crashed and broke into pieces.

A man’s instructions for the pilot had gone on deaf ears.

Imagine tryna explain this to the insurance company without the video pic.twitter.com/fEg8DtS6Be

— Lance🇱🇨 (@BornAKang) December 28, 2022

The video has a staggering 2.4 million views. Here’s what netizens had to say about it.

Explanation is simple. Landing pad slipped forwards before the helicopter could move up.

— Erik Wedin (Internet Journalism and Lawtube FTW) (@Aktivarum) December 28, 2022

Didn’t have enough RPM before he adjusted his collective I’m guessing? Possibly overloaded weight wise… sad to see a nice machine destroyed like that.

— Agent “TactiClaus” Painenn (@AgentPainenn) December 28, 2022

reminded pic.twitter.com/u960snjCji

— AOWV (@fuzzyface14) December 28, 2022

Looks like someone who has no business being in a helicopter tried to steal it.

— BTCn00b a.k.a Trollemite (🐉,🐉) burgerlord.crypto (@BTCn00b) December 28, 2022

It is not the first time that planes and helicopters have crashed during takeoffs because of different reasons. People have been killed and injured in the incidents.

In 2016, a cargo jet crashed shortly after takeoff in South America, leeft four people dead and one wounded.

The plane, a Boeing 727-200 operated by Colombian airliner Aerosucre, had just taken off the German Olano airport in Colombia when it encountered some problems, reported the Airlive.

The aircraft had five crew on board. Two people were rescued alive, but one later died in the hospital and three more died at the scene, according to the Colombian Red Cross.