Since you seem to have inside knowledge regarding the accident, when they made the tranny filter fix, was there any feedback on how many other CH-53s also had the tranny filter installed upside down as well?
Was it a case of we had just been damn lucky previously and our luck finally ran out? Or was this really the first instance of upside down Installation and it cost us the lives of 20 Marines?
Had the pilots been able to spread loads their pax, their would have been fewer casualties.