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You’ll Want to Know THIS About Last Month’s Destin Tour Helicopter Crash Before You Take Your Family on a Flight:
Mid-Bay News ^
| July 07, 2025
| Christopher Saul
Posted on 07/09/2025 5:41:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
And it still beats Sosa Airways....
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posted on
07/09/2025 6:53:12 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: BobL
We used to just call it INCOMPETENCE.
42
posted on
07/09/2025 6:53:25 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: V_TWIN
“We used to just call it INCOMPETENCE.”
That’s the endpoint, but someone caused the DEI to be put there. That’s nothing less than EVIL.
43
posted on
07/09/2025 6:55:55 AM PDT
by
BobL
To: Bonemaker
Company needs to provide mechanics with wrenches and loctite. No.
Not loctite; that's just not trustworthy.
Torque wrenches, safety wire, and appropriate hardware for safety wire.
44
posted on
07/09/2025 6:58:18 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: DIRTYSECRET
Army helicopter pilots are enlisted. My experience is limited ... but every Army helo pilot I ever met was a Warrant ... I understand some are commissioned.
45
posted on
07/09/2025 7:01:40 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: NorthMountain
46
posted on
07/09/2025 7:10:35 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: Bonemaker
No.
Safety wire.
1) It doesn’t break. It has to be cut. This facilitates maintenance. Once the wire is cut, removing the bolt/nut is relatively easy.
2) It’s easy to visually inspect. The wire is either there ... or it’s not. It’s either properly installed ... or it’s not. And if it is properly installed, that bolt/nut is not moving.
Loctite is appropriate in some places. Aircraft are not one of those places. The operator(s) of this R66 helo screwed up. Badly. Those bolts should have been torqued and wired. They’re lucky they didn’t kill anybody.
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posted on
07/09/2025 7:36:43 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Red Badger
48
posted on
07/09/2025 8:30:07 AM PDT
by
arthurus
(| covfefe |o |)
To: DIRTYSECRET
Air Force piloes ae officers....quite a mess.
49
posted on
07/09/2025 8:32:08 AM PDT
by
arthurus
(| covfefe |o|)
To: Red Badger; dfwgator
To: rlmorel
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posted on
07/09/2025 8:33:29 AM PDT
by
arthurus
(| covfefe |Oo|)
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
07/09/2025 8:33:51 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Red Badger
I’ve never been to Destin, but if I wanted to view timber. I would just go to Lowe’s or Home Depot. Or walk in the woods to see unprocessed timber.
To: BobL
Guy said “click” every time he fingered in a bolt. Seems legal.
It’s not rocket surgery, it’s flight mechanicing.
To: DIRTYSECRET
Army pilots are both commissioned and warrant officers.
To: libertylover
Safety wire, cotter pins or self locking nuts (not reusable) on all fasteners.
To: NorthMountain
To: ebshumidors
Because we want to be sure that nut that ain’t moving ... didn’t move.
58
posted on
07/09/2025 10:30:53 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: NorthMountain
You obviously know whereof you speak mate! I defer.🙂
59
posted on
07/09/2025 10:50:20 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: arthurus
60
posted on
07/09/2025 12:37:51 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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