Description
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.
Yes! Yes! Im gonna make it... Holy Shit!!!!!!
chr0100 2 weeks ago
O shit!!
sesimeseed17 2 months ago
@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.
hellcatdave1 3 months ago
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.
BAFVids 3 months ago
shit... man
akshaytridip40 3 months ago
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.
MrSampleName 5 months ago
wow i cant believe the safety net took the wheel and eventually the whole chopper.
neempoppa 6 months ago
Did anyone see that dude head was sticking aut the windon whale the helicopter was trying to land on the ship
password8866 6 months ago
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!
IRONSEAN7 7 months ago
@TheMonstasInc Thats not hte pilot .Its the crew Cheif
Cardinals525 7 months ago