Posted on 02/22/2022 11:40:05 AM PST by BenLurkin
No crew members were injured in the accident, although both helicopters were damaged.
A photo from the area showed one helicopter after it had come down in the middle of what appears to be a ski run. The other helicopter can be seen in the background.
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That’s very rugged country.
Helicopters should not collide with it.
It appears to me they were terrain following and lead took them into granite cumulous.
“Lord, they were lucky.”
Incredibly lucky. You sound experienced, which I’m not. I was guessing they clipped rotors somehow after watching the video.
That is steep tall terrain. And yesterday it was in a blizzard.
Helicopters are airborne bricks when the rotors stop.
Of course, ANY aircraft is a brick when it collided with another.
Glad the crews are ok. It’s always good to go home at the end of the day and see family…
Two Blackhawks landing simultaneously near each other in blowing snow on uneven terrain?
Is this obviously sub-optimal or am I ignorant of something?
Really thankful it only cost us some machinery.
For sure.
The trailing Helo must have clipped the leading one.
There’s a brief cell phone video of the aircrafts coming into the area and the trailing one looked like it was closing quickly as it was descending.
Gonna be an expensive training exercise if the pilots have to pay for the choppers.
Ping.
The cause will come out in a day or two. None of the crewmembers should skip church call this week.
Diversity and Inclusion qualified pilots?
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