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Duke University medevac helicopter crashes

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September 08, 2017, 07:01 PM
RNshooter
Duke University medevac helicopter crashes
Sad story.

Link

If this is the same type of helicopter I saw being built for them at Rotorcraft, in Denver, it was a big beautiful bird.
Edit: Yup, EC-145. The military calls it a Lakota.

Bruce





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September 08, 2017, 08:10 PM
c1steve
So black smoke from a helicopter, would that tend to be a hydraulic line that burst and caught fire, or an engine problem?

That is a dangerous job riding one of those every day.


-c1steve
September 08, 2017, 09:44 PM
RNshooter
It's a dual engine aircraft so an engine failure is unlikely to crash it.
Hydraulic failure seems likely but we won't know for over a year.

I make my living doing that work so this hits home. It's a very small community.

Back at it, in the morning.

Bruce





"The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams

“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free."
-Niccolo Machiavelli

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken
September 08, 2017, 10:54 PM
old rugged cross
Devastating Frown

Very sorry for the families and friends of all lost. Prayers for all affected.

God bless you Bruce and all those who risk their safety to help others. May God watch over you all.



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September 09, 2017, 12:09 PM
tacfoley
quote:
Originally posted by old rugged cross:
Devastating Frown

Very sorry for the families and friends of all lost. Prayers for all affected.

God bless you Bruce and all those who risk their safety to help others. May God watch over you all.


Amen.

tac & mrs tac