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Marine Helicopter Unexpectedly Lands on Beach
NBC San Diego ^
| Monica Garske
Posted on 04/15/2015 12:14:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: FoxInSocks
Nice landing spot, though. Look at the beach. The tide will be coming back in within a few hours.
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04/16/2015 11:09:45 AM PDT
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Carry_Okie
(The fourth estate is the fifth column.)
To: Carry_Okie
Look at the beach. The tide will be coming back in within a few hours. It looks like main gear box oil is coating the side of the helicopter. Perhaps there was an issue related to the oil cooler. Main gear box failure is obviously catastrophic.
Other landing options probably included open water or residential rooftops on the other side of the sand, or maybe one of the steep hillsides.
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04/16/2015 2:48:26 PM PDT
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FoxInSocks
("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
To: FoxInSocks
Other landing options probably included open water or residential rooftops on the other side of the sand, or maybe one of the steep hillsides. Thirty feet forward and they would have been fine, albeit there would have been a lot more blowing sand.
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04/16/2015 6:26:59 PM PDT
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Carry_Okie
(The fourth estate is the fifth column.)
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