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Old 5th Dec 2014, 22:57
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crunchingnumbers
 
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Must have been some pretty unbelievable vibrations! Amazing that they could make an emergency landing in that sort of state.
A pilot I fly with who also supports that Battalion sent me the pics after it happened - unbelievable. At 6000' they entered an auto and contacted approach to declare an emergency. Approach told them to squawk but the vibration was so severe that they could not get hands on to the transponder and were being thrown around the cockpit.

Kudos to the crew for getting her down and hats off to Sikorsky for keeping it together.

Well done men.
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