Lake Tahoe Helicopter "ditching" findings are out

[NutLoose]

Two Navy instructor pilots from San Diego (http://topics.signonsandiego.com/topics/San_Diego) have been forever stripped of flying status and two student pilots will have to repeat training because of a September incident in which they dipped two $33 million helicopters into Lake Tahoe while trying to take photos for the squadron’s Facebook (http://topics.signonsandiego.com/topics/Facebook) page, a Navy official said Wednesday.


See

Navy instructor pilots lose flying status for Lake Tahoe dip - SignOnSanDiego.com (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/dec/22/no-punishment-navy-pilots-who-dipped-helos-lake-ta/)

[Airborne Aircrew]

Oh well...

Nothing to see here... Move on.

Must have been high spirits...:rolleyes:

They screwed up royally. Got caught royally... and we know where that leads when it is videoed by a member of the public...

[Kluseau]

Any other Sci-Fi fans out there might remember an invention of Northern Irish Sci-Fi writer Bob Shaw in the 1960s called "Slow Glass", which, by slowing the transmission of light, ended up as a means of recording anything that took place for later playback. In an age in which virtually eveyone now carries a phone with a camera and often a video recorder, we have reached almost the same point by a very different route. The oddest thing about this incident is that no-one involved twigged that what they were doing was virtually guaranteed to appear on YouTube within hours.

[The Old Fat One]

Oh well...

Nothing to see here... Move on


I truly hope you are joking....I think you were.

Yet another example to add to the list of acts of gross flying indiscipline (stupidity would not be too strong a word). Why is this still happening and where do they find these clowns (and clowns includes those who purport to be in command of them)?

Such acts, and the outcomes, need all the publicity they can get.

[Shell Management]

But the Navy need to hold both Squadron leadership and flag officers accountable what is clearly a poor safety culture, if not the rot that set in in the 1990s will continue.