Helikopter - Black Hawk alvorlig hendelse

Veldig rar beskrivelse av hendelsen; rotoren stoppet og motoren (den har to) stoppet

. Uansett: Well done pilots!

 

Black Hawk rotor fails more than a mile high; pilots land safely
Three South Carolina National Guard helicopter pilots walked away from a harrowing Dec. 3 emergency landing in which their UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter reportedly plummeted 6,000 feet in less than a minute after a main rotor failure.

The two pilots (the third pilot was a passenger) managed to land the helicopter in a field not far from a water treatment plant, a school and residences near I-77 just a couple miles southeast of Columbia, South Carolina, not far from Fort Jackson.

Four days later a CH-47 Chinook helicopter sling-loaded the downed aircraft to McEntire Joint National Guard Base in Eastover, South Carolina.

An investigation into the cause of the malfunction is ongoing; because of that, Guard spokeswoman Maj. Cindi King said by policy the Guard could not name the three pilots or make them available for an interview. She said the investigation could take up to six months.

Lt. Col. Andrew Batten, the state aviation officer for the Guard, said "we anticipate it was a mechanical issue" that caused the malfunction.

He also said the pilots' training functioned when the rotor ceased to.

"The nature of the emergency required them to take emergency action steps," Batten told Army Times. "In certain emergencies they are required to respond without hesitation. The steps are kind of beaten into us in our training, from flight school to advanced training on particular aircraft."

After a loud bang during the instrumentation flight, a vibration began and quickly escalated; it turned out that the motor had died.