RAF Chinook incident near Yuma

[sitigeltfel]

BBC reporting Chinook down during training. Crew suffer light injuries.

BBC News - British Chinook makes emergency landing in US (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17649449)

[uffington sb]

I presume that they had already passed the first part of the syllabus. How to take off!
Joking aside, glad all are safe and well.

[MG]

A quiet news day? What a complete non-story, including the usual inaccuracies.

[SRENNAPS]

A quiet news day? What a complete non-story, including the usual inaccuracies.

So are you suggesting that it should not have been reported by anybody?

[MG]

From the sounds of it, it was a precautionary landing, which is not exactly unheard of. I might be wrong as it may have been more serious, but it sounds as if it was worth an incident signal but hardly national news.

[chinook240]

Earlier reports said "light injuries" which suggested more than a precautionary landing, however, the BBC has changed to "crew uninjured". I guess they need to run the story to correct the earlier error?

[SRENNAPS]

MG

If I am to be totally honest I sort of half agree with what you say, especially if it turns out to be nothing more than just an IR (or whatever they are called these days).

However, stories like this do remind the public (and the media) of the continuing risk to members of the Armed Forces, even when they are performing routine training exercises on the opposite side of the world to where they are fighting wars.
The point was made that everybody was safe and it also, hopefully, quashes unfounded rumours that do tend to spread when things are not reported. At the same time it maintains the visibility and respect of the boys and girls in the eyes of the general public.

Just my thoughts on the subject.

[KarlADrage]

At 0545 this morning, one of the wires (may have been AP) was stating:
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed there were no serious injuries after British Chinook helicopter crashed while on a training mission in southern America.

There is no confirmation yet of how many crew were aboard the helicopter at the time of the incident.

[wokkamate]

Just glad everyone is ok - as is currently being reported. No doubt the MAA team will be on thier way if this becomes an SI for any reason. Hopefully the aircraft is ok too and this was not a c*ck up by the crew.....

But anyway, this is a rumour network, so let the rumours begin!

I heard that they were doing some evasion training with the Blue Angels and it all went a bit wrong......:ouch:

[P6 Driver]

One mans "crash" is another mans "precautionary landing", especially when not armed with hard facts. Speculate away by all means - it's what the site is about, but hopefully clarification won't be far away.

[snafu]

Hopefully all the boys and girls on board are OK and not too badly shaken up.

In the meantime, what are things coming to if the RAF are flying on a Saturday??!! :E

A Ministry of Defence spokesman confirmed the Chinook had made an emergency landing at 19.30 BST on Saturday.

[RetiredSHRigger]

Hopefully it was just a firm landing, had quite a few of those!!!!!

[jayteeto]

I think the criticism is how the article was written. Informative statements like: 'The crew were practicing how to land' and 'the incident happened when something went wrong'. How lazy and lame is that?

[ramp_up]

Not like the BBC and Sky to get the facts wrong in the race to get out a story. Or shall we go with answer B and as usual cause panic. Glad everyone is ok.
:ugh:

[chinook240]

The crew was practising how to land northeast of Yuma when "something went wrong," a US Naval spokesman said


Those were quotes from the US Naval spokesman, not the BBC, so unfair to slam the report.

[TheWizard]

British helicopter has 'landing mishap' near Yuma; seven injured, none life-threatening - ivpressonline.com (http://www.ivpressonline.com/news/ivp-news-british-helicopter-has-landing-mishap-near-yuma-seven-injured-none-lifethreatening-20120407,0,2496859.story)
As of 8 p.m. two of the seven on board had been seen and released from El Centro Regional Medical Center, said Kathleen Pipkin, the hospital’s director of public relations and special projects. The other five were still in the emergency room being treated for “non-life-threatening injuries.”

[jayteeto]

Sounds like more landing practice is needed :ok:

[ShyTorque]

Landing mishap in the desert? I'll bet it was a case of "brown out". :(

No idea what caused the accident though. ;)

[chuks]

My first thought was that we were being invaded again! You lot have tried that before, you know. Burned the White House down, along with most of Washington, D.C., after first eating all of Dolly Madison's pies... The only major building left undamaged was the Marine Corps Headquarters, no real idea why that was.

That was without air mobility. God only knows what you could do now if you unleashed all of your assets upon us. That would be sheer carnage!

[Ron Fenest]

Glad everyone is OK but does anyone know if the Cab is repairable? Need to know as I'm thinking of buying shares in Boeing Philly and an extra F Model completely revamped from standard by the UK could just clinch it.

[Thud_and_Blunder]

Ron F,

Have only just noticed your address - is that a fairly crowded house?

[TorqueOfTheDevil]

God only knows what you could do now if you unleashed all of your assets upon us.


What, you mean both of them?

Thud,

Like it!:D

[Distant Voice]

DECU plugs ?

DV

[Ian Corrigible]

Glad everyone is OK but does anyone know if the Cab is repairable?
Marginally BER but yes.

Vector Aerospace and Boeing bring RAF Chinook back to life (http://www.vectoraerospace.com/Media/PressReleases/tabid/258/ArticleID/198/Default.aspx)

Before...
http://www.vectoraerospace.com/Portals/0/Images/RAFChinookafterheavylanding.png

After...
http://www.vectoraerospace.com/Portals/0/Images/RepairedChinookinoperationalcondition.png

I/C