Posted on 10/17/2009 12:53:03 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
RIO DE JANEIRO – A police helicopter flying over an intense shootout between rival drug gangs in a Rio slum was hit by gunfire Saturday and crashed in a fiery explosion on a football field.
Two officers were killed while the pilot and another officer on board suffered burns but managed to escape, a police spokesman said.
Bullets flying from the Morro dos Macacos ("Monkey Hill" in Portuguese) slum in northern Rio de Janeiro hit the pilot in the leg as he hovered above the clash, causing him to lose control and crash, turning the helicopter into a blackened wreck.
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The possibilities .. oh yeah
They didn't down the helicopter. They downed the pilot. He downed the helicopter.
At any rate, it seems like a light helicopter in a low-altitude hover would be easy work for a Kalashnikov.
You got that right.
Ya got your packs of thieves, yur gang of hooligans and then ya got CONgre$$.. but I repeat myself. :-}
More Chicago than Chicago.
wasn’t necessarily a handgun
Brazil is much more advanced that us. Their gangs can actually shoot down police helicopters./s
Its a good thing we aren’t protecting our borders or offending them with illegal alien Halloween outfits.
Isn’t that what Obama thought the U.S. is?
Man you got that right. The graffiti is fricking life-like.
I guess Brazil has just qualified for the Olympic Riflery competition... Seriously, Brazil doesn’t have a ‘crime problem’ so much as a total breakdown of social order in the slum areas.
I've also read about a 'private walled community' of 30,000 that has its own 1,200 man security force and all no-resident visitors are searched coming and going to this community.
Hell Yeah,
So let’s put an Olympics in this third world cesspool. Instead of the first world cesspool known as Chicago.
I bet corruption is about the same in both toilets.
No, they don't.
I thought that was DC.
A handy rule of thumb.
Extend your arm with thumb up, like an artist viewing an aircraft.
If your thumb blocks the view of the aircraft, save your ammo.
If your view is not 100% blocked, go for it.
One person with an elk rifle could knock down every helicopter any police department could throw at him.
There is a movie about the gangs of Rio called "City of God." It is a very hard R movie and quite educational about the slums of Rio and the gangs who control them. If you watch the movie, definitely watch the part of the DVD about the filming of the movie. It'll explain more about the gangs, law enforcement and what happened to the "stars" of the film (actual gang members). You'll do some serious thinking about the Olympics being awarded there after you view it.
Yeppers, choppers in hover at low altitude over a gunfight are nothing but an easy inviting target.
Their police flight training should change to minimize this happening again. In other words, don’t hover. Maintain as much airspeed and altitude as necessary.
1500 AGL minimum, but even that’s not safe. And you’re right. Don’t frigging hover.
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