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Helicopter Crash Mid Ocean Aircraft Carrier Landing.

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On Dec. 9, 1999, a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, with 18 people on board, crashed while attempting to land on the Navy tanker PECOS (T-AO 197) during a training exercise. The chopper's landing gear apparently snagged a metal safety net and the helicopter flipped over into the water and quickly sank.
An CH-46D/E Sea Knight crashes during a training exercise. Eleven Marines were rescued by special warfare crewmen on two nearby boats. But six Marines and a sailor drowned, their bodies recovered later from the sunken wreckage by an unmanned submersible vehicle.

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  • Yes! Yes! Im gonna make it... Holy Shit!!!!!!

  • O shit!!

  • @BAFVids The netting and railing is to help sailors and crewman get back onto the deck if they slipped and fell, and they would have something to grab onto.

  • Whats with the railing/netting at the edge of it? Surely the Navy personnel know what would happen, if a heli gets caught in it? That happens ^ But RIP those 7 men lost in this tragic accident. My condolences to the families of those lost.

  • shit... man

    

  • Imagine what it must be like to crash into the ocean. It's dark, cold, scary, surrounded by a metal "cage." Struggling to get free, only to be drug to the depths of the ocean.

    RIP those who died / were affected by the crash.

  • wow i cant believe the safety net took the wheel and eventually the whole chopper.

  • Did anyone see that dude head was sticking aut the windon whale the helicopter was trying to land on the ship

  • holy shit,, thats horrible! thank god for those who survived, and my condolences to the families who lost someone! thats such a big BIRD to land on a boat!

  • @TheMonstasInc Thats not hte pilot .Its the crew Cheif

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