Posted on 12/14/2021 11:44:43 AM PST by WXRGina
A helicopter crashed on the I-10 spillway bridge near mile marker 212.
Louisiana State Police say east-bound I-10 from LaPlace toward Kenner is closed, with traffic being diverted at U.S. 51. I-55 south-bound is also being diverted to U.S. 51.
Louisiana State Police: "Troopers are currently responding to a helicopter crash on I-10 eastbound at milepost 212 (Bonne Carré Spillway Bridge). I-10 eastbound at US Hwy 51 is currently closed. I-10 eastbound traffic is being diverted to US Hwy 51 southbound. I-55 southbound is also currently closed and southbound traffic is being diverted to US Hwy 51."
Silly goose! :-)
“10,000 parts flying in formation, looking for an opportunity to crash”
Yeah I’ve heard that.
My dad told me a story about something that happened to him during one of his two tours of Vietnam.
Seems he had a night flight on a Huey and had engine failure. The pilot told everyone to strap in and hold on he was going to “auto rotate” down to a soccer field he had spotted.
Most people probly are familiar with what the autorotation maneuver is, I’m sure it’s saved many lives.
My dad said that pilot had nerves of steel and without a doubt saved all their skins.
He also said it was an overrated experience he would never care to repeat.
Dang…..a get ready for a couple of COVID related deaths…..gonna need an eye dropper and tweezers from the looks of it.
Aren’t familiar
not are familiar
Helicopters are dangerous damn things and the people who fly them are uniformly gutsy. The bravest of the brave are the medevac pilots who will brave flying through gunfire, in the pitch dark, into the tiniest LZ, just to save your life.
Have seen many, many helicopters go in and it is almost always horrible. I could never relax when I was a passenger - I knew only too well that a really ugly death could be only seconds away.
Air Assault leads the way! The gallows humour for us was a helicopter is a machine with 10,000 moving parts all of them trying to fly apart and kill you from the day it left the factory, built by the lowest bidder,maintained and serviced by high school drop outs.
"This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to."
-- Harry Reasoner
I heard it differently: A helicopter is 10,000 moving parts flying in formation around a hydraulic leak.
I was a gunner instructor during my short tour with the Air Wing in 1968-9 for CH-46s. While flying up the coast towards Monterey, I was dozing when I heard the pilot declare a Mayday. saying he had a hydraulic failure and the aircraft started spiraling down to the beach below us.
I started with some Hail Marys and prepared for my proximate end, but the helo landed upright and intact. I waited for the pilot to shut down and brake the rotors, but it was still running - so I looked at the instuctor pilot to see what was going on. He motioned me forward and when I got to him, he pointed at a Jack-in-the-Box burger place up the hill and told me to "get five cheesgurgers, two shakes, two fries and whatever I wanted" and handed me the money.
I went up that hill from the beach, flight suit, helmet and all and when I got back with the food the Captain called "that the emergency has been fixed" and we resumed the flight north.
Damn Airwingers!
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