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Relief Effort H-60 Crash
Hello folks, I just saw this link on yahoo news, I didn't see
anything about it on www.news.navy.mil yet, probably soon. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...licopter_crash All the story says is an SH-60 with 10 onboard crashed in Indonesia, near Banda Aceh. No certain details on injuries, survivors, or otherwise. Hope for the best. |
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Jim Carriere wrote: Hello folks, I just saw this link on yahoo news, I didn't see anything about it on www.news.navy.mil yet, probably soon. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...n_re_as/tsunam i_helicopter_crash All the story says is an SH-60 with 10 onboard crashed in Indonesia, near Banda Aceh. No certain details on injuries, survivors, or otherwise. Hope for the best. The BBC reports four injured. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4160339.stm --Mike |
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By JOCELYN GECKER, Associated Press Writer
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - A U.S. Seahawk helicopter on a relief operation crashed in a rice paddy near Banda Aceh's airport, injuring all 10 aboard and causing the military to briefly suspend flights on Monday. A new tsunami videotape showed roiling brown water engulfing everything in its path on a busy Indonesian street. Capt. Kendall L. Card, the commander of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, which is stationed off the coast of Sumatra island, said over the ship's loudspeakers that six of the servicemen aboard the aircraft had been hurt seriously and four had minor injuries. The worst injury was a dislocated pelvis, he said. Lt. Cmdr. John M. Daniels blamed the crash, which happened just after 7:30 a.m. local time, on a "possible mechanical failure" and said it was being investigated. Fifteen Seahawk helicopters from the Lincoln group have been flying up to nine hours a day on aid missions. Normally they fly a maximum of three to four hours a day. The SH60 helicopter crashed in a rice paddy about 500 yards from the airport in Banda Aceh, the main city on Indonesia's tsunami-battered Sumatra island, as it was trying to land, he said. "There was no fire ball but a little smoke. It landed on its side," said Capt. Joe Plenzler, adding that the helicopter's propeller was twisted from the impact. U.S. authorities said there was no indication the helicopter had been shot down. The military said the helicopter experienced an "in-flight emergency" and then "executed a hard landing." Photos from the scene showed the Seahawk lying on its side in the paddy, it's main rotor crumpled. Photo he http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...pdj10101100200 |
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Guy Alcala wrote:
By JOCELYN GECKER, Associated Press Writer BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - A U.S. Seahawk helicopter on a relief operation crashed in a rice paddy near Banda Aceh's airport, injuring all 10 aboard and causing the military to briefly suspend flights on Monday. A new tsunami videotape showed roiling brown water engulfing everything in its path on a busy Indonesian street. Capt. Kendall L. Card, the commander of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, sarcasm dripping from every pore Thanks for cleaning up that cut and paste job, Guy. It really made that article readable. /sarcasm dripping from every pore -- OJ III [Email to Yahoo address may be burned before reading. Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast.] |
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Ogden Johnson III wrote:
snip sarcasm dripping from every pore Thanks for cleaning up that cut and paste job, Guy. It really made that article readable. /sarcasm dripping from every pore Sorry about that, but I find that even when I reformat messages after doing a cut and paste they often come out with bizarre formatting, so I thought I'd leave this one alone and see what happens. Sometimes they come through with the original formatting intact, and sometimes (as in this case) not. If I could identify any pattern to them I might be able to figure out what caused it, but not being a computer geek that's hardly certain. For that matter, I still have no idea why Googlegroups doesn't usually wrap my lines at less than screen width, even though I've got my line length set at 60 characters. It's okay when I send it, sometimes okay and sometimes not when I read the NG on my server, and almost always wrong on google, so you have to scroll back and forth. I've tried various line length settings, with absolutely no result on google. Guy |
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Guy Alcala wrote in
: Ogden Johnson III wrote: snip sarcasm dripping from every pore Thanks for cleaning up that cut and paste job, Guy. It really made that article readable. /sarcasm dripping from every pore Sorry about that, but I find that even when I reformat messages after doing a cut and paste they often come out with bizarre formatting, so I thought I'd leave this one alone and see what happens. Sometimes they come through with the original formatting intact, and sometimes (as in this case) not. If I could identify any pattern to them I might be able to figure out what caused it, but not being a computer geek that's hardly certain. For that matter, I still have no idea why Googlegroups doesn't usually wrap my lines at less than screen width, even though I've got my line length set at 60 characters. It's okay when I send it, sometimes okay and sometimes not when I read the NG on my server, and almost always wrong on google, so you have to scroll back and forth. I've tried various line length settings, with absolutely no result on google. Make it a two step process. 1. Copy and paste into notepad. Remove all line breaks. Put them back in where you really want them. 2. Paste back into your Usenet client and send. That should do the trick. Dave in San Diego |
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Michael Wise wrote:
The BBC reports four injured. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4160339.stm Interesting - there didn't seem to have been much mention by the BBC of the US and Australian relief flights prior to this. |
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Michael Wise wrote:
Au contraire. The BB covere the US relief flights extensively prior to the crash on Jan 10. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/4139235.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/4140961.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/4142047.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/4147321.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/4147321.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/4160339.stm Thanks for the corrections and links, Michael ! |
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Aviation Week lists some of the US aviation assets helping with the disaster relief: 50 US helicopters 17 from Abraham Lincoln 25 from Bonhomme Richard (including CH-53s and CH-46) 6 USAF HH-60 helicopters US Army is sending a CH-47 Chinook unit The article also included a photo of a MH-60S KnightHawk, which was a name I was unfamiliar with. D |
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