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Old 9th January 2002 | 06:31
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helmet fire
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Another reason to obey the light:
A UH-1H landed near the staging field at Ft Rucker AL 3 miles short of the field with a transmission chip, and no secondaries. Who would have been tempted to continue to the field?

When he rolled the throttle off from the idle position after landing, there was a huge grinding noise and, in his estimation, the blades turned only turned a further 5 times or so before grinding to a halt and twisting the aircraft!! Transmission had siezed.

Flight manual does require land as soon as possible. As I said above, each system is different, and I would follow the flight manual unless there was a safer course of action.
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