Dockside Chat - Helicopter crash in Afganistan
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Damn!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/helicopter-crash-in-afghanistan-caught-on-video/2012/03/22/gIQASG2kTS_blog.html
slper
03-22-2012, 05:46 PM
Looks to me someone was hotroddin' and got in over there head or the ability of the aircraft. Glad they aren't dead.
thajeffski
03-23-2012, 05:13 AM
Prob. didn't take into factor that the air up in the mountains provides less lift. Chopper was doing what it was told to do... pilot error.
NCcarguy
03-23-2012, 05:32 AM
holy crap! That's amazing no one was killed!
HDTBC
03-23-2012, 05:37 AM
Eh, just a mega-million dollar toy. Cowboy for a pilot.....:o
Mr. Demeanor
03-23-2012, 07:16 AM
Maverick (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000129/): Tower, this is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby.
Air Boss Johnson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0835146/): Negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.
Two of your snot-nose jockeys did a fly-by on my tower at over 400 KNOTS! I want somebody's butt, I want it now, I've HAD IT!
Goose (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000381/): The defense department regrets to inform you that your sons are dead because they were stupid.
hhi angler
03-23-2012, 09:45 AM
Not to worry the aviators are in very deep shit and are probably on there way out of the service. Command does not have sense of forgiveness when a machine is destroyed by the aviators negligence.
Oh well, two Army Aviators heading to the infantry.....(If their lucky)
Bugbuster
03-23-2012, 04:57 PM
Thin air. High altitude.
Thin air. High altitude.
And stupid pilots...(former pilots)