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I'm starting to get really burned, thinking about those Brave men being killed in that chopper crash. I heard one of these TV military commentators say that our choppers are pretty old.

Smells like Clinton era negligence perhaps? grrrr

Prairie

169 posted on 03/20/2003 10:07:28 PM PST by prairiebreeze (God Bless and Protect the Allied Troops. And their families here at home---they are soldiers too.)

TV military commentators say that our choppers are pretty old.

Negligence, incompetence, plus a whole host of other weak character traits.

That poor old chopper has been a great workhorse. No reason to get angry at the 'Toon for this, any more than getting angry for still using B52s. The real problem with this thing is that I don't believe there are real good options if you have mechanical failures with this chopper... with most you can quite often "autorotate" (something like using the rotor as a parachute) and make a very hard, but survivable, landing. I do not believe that is very likely with this double prop job.

Recall, we had two other choppers down from mechanical problems today, and safe crews from them. nevertheless.

Any chopper pilots available on FR now?... This pilot could use your true expertise on this!