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Fox on YouTube and ring cam caught it going down. 2 fatalities https://youtu.be/-wWPcs5i164 https://youtu.be/wIqZ7cHnU24 | ||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Looks like he drove it straight into the ground. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
Prayers for the crew. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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Seeker of Clarity |
That's not at all what I'm seeing. It looks like they'd lost control completely. Maybe catastrophic mechanical issue. I see wildly spinning and pitching. Nothing to indicate intentionally driving it into the ground.  | |||
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Prayers out. | |||
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Go Vols! |
A bit more info on how it was flying here and maybe they managed to get it away from a subdivision. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U7DgX665F8 Very sad. - appears to be TN National Guard | |||
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^(searching for the word intentionally?) | |||
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| Knows too little about too much  |
Damn! RMD TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free. | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss |
You are correct. Watched a different video that shows it better and it appears that he did lose tail rotor authority. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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"Intentionally" would be inferred by using "he drove it". Rick Texting.......easier than calling. | |||
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War Damn Eagle! |
Agreed, and the most likely explanation. Another thought that crossed my mind was the pilot became disoriented in IFR conditions. The videos I've seen show him popping out from the clouds already out of control (almost looked inverted). | |||
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Optimistic Cynic |
It always impresses me how pilots, faced with imminent loss of craft, and probably life manage to think about minimizing damage to those on the ground by performing last minute maneuvers to miss occupied structures. Obviously, we will never know what was going through the pilot's mind when he realized that the air was no longer supporting him, but it appears that he found the wherewithal to do the right thing. | |||
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Coin Sniper |
Hard to tell from the one video. Any chance he was trying for an autorotation and ran out of time. Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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I could see a tiny black spec falling from the sky is all. Seemed like it was falling like a rock. Very sad  . Prayers for the crews families. Thank you crew. May you RIP now."Practice like you want to play in the game" | |||
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IIRC, there were some "teething" problems early in the Blackhawk's service, where the horizontal stabilizer would pitch down in forward flight, causing node-dives, loss of control, etc. The horizontal stabilizer is usually only in a pitched-down state when landing vertical or near vertical. I don't remember if is was a hardware or software issue that caused the problem. The video I saw showed the Blackhawk in a nose-down attitude, hence my theorizing. RIP and prayers for the families. | |||
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