A U.S. Navy MH-60S Knighthawk hovers during a field training exercise on Sept. 18, 2013, in southern Arizona. A similar Navy helicopter crashed in eastern Imperial County Thursday with all four on board surviving.
Posted on 06/09/2022 9:13:20 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
A U.S. Navy helicopter crashed during a training mission in the Imperial County desert north of Yuma Thursday afternoon, the second military aircraft to go down in the area in two days, the Navy said.
All four crew members on board survived the crash, although one sustained injuries not considered life-threatening and was taken to a hospital, according to Cmdr. Zachary Harrell, a spokesperson for the San Diego-based Naval Air Forces command.
The MH-60S Seahawk helicopter is assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 3, based at Naval Air Station North Island, Harrell said.
The crash was reported around 5 p.m. in the Palo Verde area south of Blythe, on the California-Arizona border, according to an alert posted on the Naval Air Facility El Centro Facebook page.
Harrell said the helicopter crashed and that the incident was not just a hard landing.
“It was a crash, and everybody survived,” he told the Union-Tribune late Thursday.
The incident comes just a day after a Marine Corps Osprey crashed near the Imperial County community of Glamis — about 40 miles west of where the Navy helicopter went down Thursday.
Five Camp Pendleton-based Marines were killed in that crash.
A U.S. Navy MH-60S Knighthawk hovers during a field training exercise on Sept. 18, 2013, in southern Arizona. A similar Navy helicopter crashed in eastern Imperial County Thursday with all four on board surviving.
These military training missions are becoming dangerous. Maybe they always were, but nowadays, we hear about it more quickly when something goes wrong. As you probably know, just yesterday, 5 marines were killed during a training mission involving an Osprey and located in a Southern California desert.
Probably nothing to do with promoting diversity, equity, etc.
Finally, a happy ending.
auto rotate... bang.
they always were
Helicopters are machines that press the edges of stuff that doesn’t want to be stuff. And Ospreys are their grumpy step sisters.
My son is a Navy pilot and this is what he flies.
He is deployed in the Middle East now.......pray for his safety often.......I grew up flying - father & 2 sons are pilots, uncle a Navy pilot & instructor - but I want a fixed wing. I’d fly with him once in a helo - but not more. Do hope I get the chance someday, but not likely in a MH-60......
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