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TH-57 crashes near Whiting
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redmariner97 said:
Kinf of a shallow question. I won't beat a dead horse, but I've only been winged and out of the HTs for a month and I was wondering if it was someone I knew as well.
Harrier Dude
Living the dream
Could someone update this post with the names once the have OFFICIALLY been released? I'm not trying to start the rumor mill, I just want to pray for their families.
First off, as for the IP or Stud question: I'm in HT-8 right now and I wonder the same thing. It has nothing to do with whose life is more valuable. It has to do with the likelihood that I might know the person...or that I might have been the person under different circumstances.
Secondly, both squadrons recently celebrated 1,000,000 mishap-free hours. That only refers to Class "A" mishaps which are defined as damage in excess of $1,000,000 or loss of life/permanent disability. Since a TH-57C is not valued at over $1,000,000 then even accidents resulting in total loss of aircraft are not class "A" providing the crew is OK. The pinnacle roll-over at Harold OLF was last year in HT-18. Earlier this year, an HT-8 helo rolled at Spencer Field. Both of those resulted in 0 injuries.
Enough picking at straws. Let's all pray for the families of everyone involved.
Secondly, both squadrons recently celebrated 1,000,000 mishap-free hours. That only refers to Class "A" mishaps which are defined as damage in excess of $1,000,000 or loss of life/permanent disability. Since a TH-57C is not valued at over $1,000,000 then even accidents resulting in total loss of aircraft are not class "A" providing the crew is OK. The pinnacle roll-over at Harold OLF was last year in HT-18. Earlier this year, an HT-8 helo rolled at Spencer Field. Both of those resulted in 0 injuries.
Enough picking at straws. Let's all pray for the families of everyone involved.
Prashant Patel
Registered User
I feel like there's no words for the mix of emotions you go through when you lose one of your fellow aviators. I was finishing up in VT-28 when those two T-34s went down in corpus. I knew the stud that perished in the 2nd mishap and here I am again in HT-18, 3 months later, watching it happen all over again. It still felt like a punch to the chest when I heard the news in the ready room. It never gets easier to bear. It sucks, it f*ck'n sucks so bad....
paddle562 said:
First post in a long time. I found out today from two T-34 jockeys that recognized my HT-8 patch up in Andalusia today.
It does suck. The sad fact is, however, that we have a dangerous job. This doesn't make it suck any less, but it does make the sacrafice worth knowing that most, if not all, deaths of aviators in history involved people doing something they love. Another sad fact is that we've lost more aviators in the last year to car crashes than we have in the last 3 decades to helo crashes.
Rob Elortegui and I used to go to EVERY "men are pigs" night at Coconut Bay behind university mall when we were together here for flight school...he loved life and loved the Navy...it makes things sometimes easier to bear. I cried like a baby from Bahrain upon hearing his death.
My prayers to the families and all of us trying to cope.
~D
squorch2 said:
I think that with the TH-57, they don't strike it until the actual BuNo plate is destroyed. Like Steve Austin, "We can rebuild him..."
phrogdriver said:
Probably, since 151 (the pinnacle bird I believe) is still sitting by the line shack on the Charlie line.
ChuckMK23 said:
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