Originally Posted by
212man
Didn’t another crew get the cable carrying an empty fuel bladder wrapped around the tail boom, and then carry out a precautionary landing - to discover they were in a minefield!
Yes and No, I think. The empty went over the tail boom (and under the main rotor), for sure, but as far as I know, my story above is the only one where they landed in a minefield, and that was a different occasion.