Posted on 01/15/2016 5:31:09 AM PST by PghBaldy
U.S. Marine Corps 22 mins
*The Marine Corps can confirm there is an active search and rescue operation ongoing for two CH-53 helicopters of the coast of Oahu. The U.S. Coast Guard is currently conducting search and rescue operations. The aircraft are from the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing from Marine Corps Base Hawaii. We will provide more details as they become available.*
— Major Christian Devine, USMC
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How awful.
Yikes!
It’s about 3AM there...night rescues can’t be easy.
Has there been bad weather?
They’re big ones. More lifting power than a Sikorsky Skycrane.
Sending up prayers for my fellow Marines.
one is an accident. Two though?
At the risk of conspiracy theory mongering..there have been a few too many “navigation” mishaps in our mil hardware of late.
TWO boats off Iran go simul missing? TWO helos? I guess they could have “legitimately” collided.
I don’t know if it is hardware-related or software related: The relentless demoralizing of our military readiness.
Don't know...but even in good weather it's a bad situation.
The Coast Guard is reporting that they collided and there’s a debris field in the water. Six souls aboard each.
30-40 foot waves,
wreckage spotted,
USCG arrived in scene 12AM local time (3 hours 45 mins ago)
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/possible-marine-helicopter-collision-off-hawaii/
Oh no.....
Not good by any means. Search for 2 CH-53’s would seem to indicate a collision or one following the other and going to low. Hopefully it’s a rescue.
“Two” is an airborne collision.
I don’t know anything about this but it seems to me that two helos in this day and age shouldn’t collide unless there was major malfunction.
There’s a lot of automation, but the pilot is still in control 100%.
It was a mid air collision.
RIP brave Marines
Night flying helos is tough, lost a bunch of friends when 2 53s went into the side of a mountain back in ‘76, and a good friend in Desert One, collision happen.
Just damn.
Prayers up and Semper Fi.
This is bad. Praying for them.
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