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1 posted on 02/22/2022 11:40:05 AM PST by BenLurkin
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That’s very rugged country.


2 posted on 02/22/2022 11:46:20 AM PST by laplata (")
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Lord, they were lucky. Helicopter crashes are usually ugly.

It appears to me they were terrain following and lead took them into granite cumulous.

4 posted on 02/22/2022 11:59:10 AM PST by pfflier
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That is steep tall terrain. And yesterday it was in a blizzard.


6 posted on 02/22/2022 12:10:10 PM PST by lurk (u)
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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.


8 posted on 02/22/2022 12:34:21 PM PST by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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Gonna be an expensive training exercise if the pilots have to pay for the choppers.


11 posted on 02/22/2022 1:15:18 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: markomalley; DYngbld; TADSLOS; xsrdx; big'ol_freeper; Mark17; mikefive; JDoutrider; ...

Ping.


12 posted on 02/22/2022 1:17:18 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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Diversity and Inclusion qualified pilots?


14 posted on 02/22/2022 2:08:09 PM PST by Tommy Revolts
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