Archived Video of Colombian Army Helicopter landing on mine field (youtube.com)
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Archived Video of Colombian Army Helicopter landing on mine field (youtube.com)
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[–] poopbutt 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
There are many different kinds of landmines with different effects.
Generally speaking, there are two large groups, anti-personnel and anti-vehicle / anti-tank mines. Anti-personnel mines can be triggered by a person stepping on the mine and they either have, as you say, just enough blast to rip off a leg or two (blast mines) or spread shrapnel (frag mines). Either way, nowhere near enough power to rip a helicopter apart like in that video.
Anti-vehicle or anti-tank mines typically have a much bigger explosive yield, especially the older ones (WW2, cold war era, etc.), but they can't typically be triggered by a person stepping on it.
Which is why the footage seems so odd to me. It looks like the third guy stepping out of the helicopter on the left side (top of the video) might be triggering a mine, but the explosion is way too big for an anti-personnel mine.
[–] Outamyhead ago
Yeah something else is going on there, you can see the third guy was blown away from the helicopter, and it appears everyone was running from the helicopter before it blew itself in half.
[–] poopbutt ago (edited ago)
Well they weren't "running from the helicopter" as much as disembarking from it. That's what soldiers usually do when a helicopter lands to get the soldiers on board to their designated area of operation. Helicopter lands, soldiers get out. There doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary going on (like any visible panic) prior to the explosion, but of course it's hard to make out what with the video quality.