Air Force helicopter shot at from ground while flying over Virginia, crew injured

McClatchy DC ^ | 8/12/2020 | Tara Copp

[Skywise]

An Air Force helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing at a Virginia airport Monday after someone shot at it, injuring a member of the crew, local and military officials told McClatchy.

The UH-1N Huey helicopter is assigned to the 1st Helicopter Squadron at Joint Base Andrews and had been on a routine training flight, the base said in a statement. The injured crew member, who was not identified, was treated at a hospital and released.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into the incident.

[.44 Special]

Just lead the women and children a little less.

[Demiurge2]

Hueys must have gotten a lot more vulnerable to small arms fire over the past 50 years.

[pepsionice]

Landing point 30 miles SW of DC. It’s out of the urban area of Fairfax. Must not have been damaged much because the pilot did make it to the regional airport.

[steve86]

I see from the other thread 1,000 AGL. Thanks for the weather report.

[Jane Long]

Trial run???

Good grief.

Prayers up for all, and, including POTUS/VP.

[LastDayz]

Yep.... that’s what I was thinking about. Light em up.

[sport]

Anytime from November 3,2020 to February 3, 2021 at the longest. Shortest? August 12, 2020 2:26 EDT [14:26 hrs]

[PIF]

Portland looks a likely place for that sort of training

[Psalm 73]

When I first started working as an aircraft engine mechanic in 1980 we had hundreds of Huey engines shipped back from Vietnam and Thailand stacked up in cans that we would un-can and overhaul.
Just walls of Huey engines!

[ichabod1]

Hmph. I should think the SS would stake out his line of travel, or take alternate routes in the first place.

[ichabod1]

but I don’t believe it. . . not for a meeenit!

[RoseofTexas]

They are hell bent on taking him out!! Sounds like the swamp evil monsters are getting brazen!! This will not stop until our president gets shot! CW 2 is getting red hot!

[Shark24]

Watching the guys on the FLIR point their guns at us.

[2CAVTrooper]

“Has this kind of domestic attack ever happened to our military helicoptes?
This insanity is going to explode nationwide and the DemonRats are going to help them do it.”

From time to time.

Usually the idiots use lasers though.

[Buckeye McFrog]

“Probably. Joint Base Andrews is where his helicopters normally take him to board Air Force One. Some bad actor probably thought he was taking out Trump here.” These UH-1’s are marked totally different than the Marine One fleet.

I get that. But these Leftist kooks tend to be stupid.

[little jeremiah]

Testing.

Like the shooter near the WH.

[old curmudgeon]

So you were flying at about 300 ft?

At what airspeed?

In what flying machine?

[Shark24]

230 knots, 250 feet, MC-130E

[old curmudgeon]

I wonder if they were not just using their scopes to look you over.

Not very smart but pulling the trigger would be dumber.

[Shark24]

Don’t get me wrong, it was a very rare occurrence. Overseas was a little more dicey but also rare. Cheers.