Navy CH-46 Helicopter Misses Landing Deck at Sea, Crashes

This Navy Helicopter Missed the Landing Deck on a ship at Sea, Crashes into the ocean. The helicopter was a CH-46 from USS Bonhomme Richard, the flight deck belongs to USNS Pecos. The crash occurred December 9, 1999

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Navy
• Helicopter
• Crashes
• Sea
• Ocean
• CH-46
• USS
• Bonhomme
• Richard
• USNS
• Pecos

[spammorz]

December 9, 1999 - the CH-46 was from USS Bonhomme Richard, the flight deck belongs to USNS Pecos

[Offroadersdotcom]

Thanks for the information

[spammorz]

The helicopter approached the flight deck with abnormally high speed and sinkrate and missed the flight deck. The rear port landing gear hit the man overboard netting and got stuck - when the PIC quickly applied power to abort the approach, the rear of the helicopter remained "anchored" to the netting, so increased power through the forward main rotor lifted the helicopter to an upright position and then had it roll over onto its left side.

[mediarocker543]

@NPMproductions13 No. You have no idea what you are talking about. All heli are capable of 4 axis motion. To think Tandem rotor heli's are incapable of movement on their X-axis due to rotor configuration is ignorant. The blades are counter-rotating, one operates one direction opposing the other. This negates yawing effect caused by a single rotor without the need for co-axial or tail rotors. Their banking motion is not inhibited by this design.

[curtshan]

I heard this is when JP Paige died, he was a great Marine... Semper Fi brothers...

[NPMproductions13]

@chrisjgrey the double bladed heli prevents it from going side ways if turn left or right it will crash because of so much power like it did here

[chrisjgrey]

I hope everyone was rescued, how come the pilot was coming in so fast? Doesn't it make more sense to fly next to the ship matching the ship's speed, then slide sideways to the landing pad?

[IT2Foutty]

I was on the ship when this happened, the helo hit the USS BONHOMME RICHARD, not the Pecos...

[ksa111ksa]

The tire. Hold. In the land

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[TheStaticage01]

Goddamn-Naval piloting IS DANGEROUS SHIT MAN! Sad to hear that some of the crew died? They must've just got slammed so hard on the impact once they made contact with the surface? It's hard to imagine that people died in this accident but being former Navy I know it happens? At least the bird had plenty of rescue support from the fleet. Looks like they were in "safe" hands considering what had just took place? We did ops with the Pecos back in 93-94. Fair winds gang PEACE!

[CasimusxPrime]

Did anyone in the chopper die?

[RofIStomper]

Chopper is not for noobs.

I always have to stress this in Battlefield games were noobies think they can pilot them.