Posted on 09/22/2013 9:53:34 AM PDT by ColdOne
Five crew members are missing after a U.S. Navy helicopter crashed in the Red Sea on Sunday during routine flight operations, military officials said.
The MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 6 — nicknamed the HSC Indians — went down in the Central Red Sea at about noon local time, according to an official with the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet.
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Al-Qaida + MANPADS = Aircraft falling out of the skies.
My thought as well and 2 mins later the news media declares not a hostile act. Bolderdash!
Fact:
This was a landing accident.
“The Knighthawk had been trying to either land or takeoff from the rear helicopter deck of the USS William P. Lawrence, a guided-missile destroyer, at the time of the crash”
Sometimes it pays to READ the Article.......
I never said it was suspicious. I just posted because it was a Navy helicopter.
Any other time in history, I would be inclined to believe the official report. Not so much today.
I just posted because it was a Navy helicopter.
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People just don’t realize it doesn’t take a war or even hostilities for Military Personnel to be in ‘Harms Way’ when it comes to Aircraft and ‘everyday’ Operations.
War or Hostilities just take a lot of the heat etc off the manufacturers and/or crews..
Read some of the comments on nbc. Disappointed in some fellow Americans for their lack of caring.
And sometimes it pays to think it through.
The article says: "The USS Nimitz is leading the search and rescue mission for the five crew members who were aboard the helicopter by providing planes and small boats, officials said."
Why would an aircraft carrier have to provide "planes and small boats" to a guided-missile destroyer which lost a helicopter "either landing or taking off from the rear helicopter deck"?
The story doesn't add up. The chopper was AWAY from the destroyer on ops, MAYBE on approach but far enough away that the destroyer couldn't handle a simple S&R pickup off of its own fantail.
On the other hand, if it was a MANPAD shoot-down, I imagine that some of the "planes" the carrier provided were strike-fighters blowing the bastards to hell.
I met a guy in the 80's, ex-army, who had shrapnel in his leg and a bullet wound scar in his abdomen that he told me he got in Guatamala. What confused me is that he wasn't SF, just regular army. When I looked at him and said, "wait a minute, we're not fighting in Guatamala," he just smiled.
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