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Why are their frequent crashes of military helicopters?
I understand that some are hit by hostile fire, But many are reported as mechanical or pilot error.
I live in an area with loads of helicopter traffic: multiple overlapping police agencies, flights to oil rigs, private buisinessmen, some military, and (believe it or not, the largest number of helicopter flights around here is) the movement of cancelled checks from one bank to another.
In the 26 years I’ve lived here I can’t recall a helicopter crash. So why are our people i n Iraq getting killed? Is there something wrong with the aircraft? Are the pilots not experienced enough?
We lost 13 soldiers this wknd and their not sure if it was fired on.
Whay are our people dying?
I’m a former U.S. Army helicopter pilot…UH-1H. OH-58, UH-60, and AH-64′s. Flying in a combat environment often is akin to driving in a NASCAR race on a foggy night, without lights. It can be done…but there’s no room for error.
We would routinely fly combat troop assault missions in pitch blackness wearing night vision goggles. Despite the technology of the things, it’s very difficult to see and react when you’re about to hit something!
(Many people have the idea that wearing NVG’s makes your vision like seeing in bright daylight…not so. If you take an empty toilet paper tube, cover one end with green cellophane, close one eye, and look through the tube with your open eye…that’s about the same level and field of vision you have when wearing NVG’s…plus you have zero depth perception. Also, a sudden bright light will blind you.)
A group of us ( 4 to 20 helicopters) would fly without lights at about 120 knots very close to the ground…sometimes less than 10 feet…below tree lines, under wires and bridges, etc. Meanwhile, people would be shooting at us, or dust or mist would fly and make the visibility go to zero and generally it’s a very dangerous way to fly.
Quite honestly, considering everything, I’m surprised that there aren’t 10 times more crashes. We had our share…mostly things like wire strikes or blade strikes…but occasionally we’d have a wrecked helicopter and some dead soldiers.
Unfortunately, part of war is the game of attrition…not just of ammo and equipment…but human lives as well.
I very rarely had mechanical problems, and the few I’ve ever had, with one exception, were always discovered prior to leaving on the mission. I’ve never had an inflight emergency that required me to land or abort a mission. That says a tremendous amount of the quality of work of the Army mechanics and crew chiefs.
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