Navy Helo crashed!
BayNet reporting one dead two medevac'd..
Breton Bay Neighborhood.
Baynet says Army helo.
One of the crew members was taken by helicopter to a local hospital, but Cummings wouldn't describe his injuries. The other two members of the crew were okay, Cummings said. Two medevac helicopters were initially sent to the scene to assist.
Not sure I would want to get in a helicopter for a ride to the hospital after the helo I was just in crashed to the ground. Let me take my chances on 4 wheels.
I saw three fly over L-Town.
Wonder if it was one of them....
I read at least two eyewitness statements that it was spinning out of the air, so that's a fair guess. There are an awful lot of individual failures that could cause that kind of rotation - not just the tail rotor itself... gearbox failures, yaw control system jams, structural failure of the vertical tail, etc... if you lump that under "tail rotor", I would have to agree it's most likely true.Also heard that it was the tail rotor that failed.
My favorite line from that section: "A helicopter is a collection of compromises."
A collection of parts moving n formation....