SEABREEZE 1957
My 401K is now a 201K
This is very, very sad news. My sincere thoughts & prayers to all of the families and to the survivor, Jordan Wells. 
Breaking news Trooper 2 Crashes
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SEABREEZE 1957
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keepsmiling
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keepsmiling
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Thank you Seabreeze!!
SEABREEZE 1957
My 401K is now a 201K
Mdcopswife
Boss Lady
My thoughts and prayers to all the families.
jlfree25
Steelers Fan 4-life
kilroyiii
New Member
I have had the honor of being one of thier patients many years ago...they saved my life and got me to the hospital in time to be released the next day. I don't think they get enough credit for a the great job they do.
My prayers go out to everyone in the families both thier personal and thier department families.
My prayers go out to everyone in the families both thier personal and thier department families.
AndyMarquisLIVE
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Heard about this earlier at the race and it's just devastating.
Please pray for Jordan she's in very serious condition with slim chances of survival.
jlfree25
Steelers Fan 4-life
I have been on many calls with Trooper two and my heart goes out to thier families.
As far as funds as soon as I hear I will let you know Pandora I am going up to the squad tomorrow.
Danzig
Well-Known Member
Yes, Bill did go in Trooper 2, some of the photos in the slide show are from his accident. http://www.thebaynet.com/news/index.cfm/fa/viewstory/story_ID/10202
Pasofever
Does my butt look big?
Wow I am speechless...how terribly sad..I think 3-7 or at least a few of them are from his accident..was it the same pilot?
Danzig
Well-Known Member
I am not familiar with the Trooper 2 pilots, I have a few photos of the medics and pilots from Trooper 2, but most of the time it’s Trooper 7 down here. On the day Bill was flown out if I remember correctly Trooper 7 was unavailable for maintenance.
clevalley
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Buddy of mine who flies for Eagle One was called in yesterday flying mechanics/inspectors to all the Trooper Helo locations for inspections - the Glide Slope indicator might of been the culprit (NTSA has already hinted to this in briefings.)
This is what has been said in briefings and is common knowledge;
Trooper 2 was flying back from Waldorf and got into heavy clouds/fog - the pilot went to fly by instruments and set a course to AAFB and called for an ambulance to meet them there to transport 2 patients to PG General. All appeared well until the helo dropped off of radar, last transmission was "I lost my glide slope."
This is PURE Speculation at this time;
The pilot believed he was flying correctly by instrument in the clouds/fog until he noticed the tree-tops or something was wrong with the glide slope indicator; he made the radio transmission and they crashed.
Flying with the glide-slope indicator in the proper position leads the pilot to believe everything is ok. If it is not working correctly the angle of entry to the LZ will be off, either to shallow (not too bad) or to steep (REALLY bad), apparently it was too steep as they came up short of Andrews. If there is one thing in this scenario to take any type of comfort, is the entire crew and passengers did not spend 30 seconds of pure hellish panicking with an inverted helo or spinning wildly out of control; we can only hope they did not know what happened.
One question I did ask was "why did it take them so long to find the crash?" There is an emergency beacon that transmits a radio frequency to help rescuers locate the crash. Unfortunately in the heavy fog they could not launch the search aircraft used to triangulate this rescue signal. So the search went by ground...
Regardless, it is a horrible tragedy and many lives are affected...