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Helicopter Crashes; Pilot Sent To Hospital
DUNDALK, Md. -- A small helicopter slipped off the back of a flatbed truck and slammed into the ground as the pilot was attempting to land at the Dundalk Marine Terminal Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.
The unidentified pilot was able to free himself from the wreckage and was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, said Richard Scher, a spokesman for the Maryland Port Administration.
No one else was on board and no one on the ground was injured, Scher said.
"It wasn't like the helicopter dropped right out of the sky," he said. "It was trying to land and got very close to landing."
As the pilot attempted to land on the flatbed he apparently lost control and part of the landing gear slipped off the truck. The helicopter spun and then fell to the ground, Scher said.
The Dundalk Marine Terminal is part of the Port of Baltimore and the helicopter was intended as cargo on a ship bound for Sweden on Thursday, Scher said.
Maryland Transportation Authority police stand by whenever a helicopter intended as cargo lands at the terminal and they were able to respond immediately to the 2:30 p.m. crash, he said.
The Robinson R-44 Raven II helicopter was registered to Somerset Aviation in Bel Alton.
The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash, a spokesman for the agency said.
Television images showed the helicopter sitting on the pavement.
The undercarriage was mangled, and the tail rotor had snapped off, but the cockpit did not appear to have sustained much damage.
DUNDALK, Md. -- A small helicopter slipped off the back of a flatbed truck and slammed into the ground as the pilot was attempting to land at the Dundalk Marine Terminal Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.
The unidentified pilot was able to free himself from the wreckage and was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, said Richard Scher, a spokesman for the Maryland Port Administration.
No one else was on board and no one on the ground was injured, Scher said.
"It wasn't like the helicopter dropped right out of the sky," he said. "It was trying to land and got very close to landing."
As the pilot attempted to land on the flatbed he apparently lost control and part of the landing gear slipped off the truck. The helicopter spun and then fell to the ground, Scher said.
The Dundalk Marine Terminal is part of the Port of Baltimore and the helicopter was intended as cargo on a ship bound for Sweden on Thursday, Scher said.
Maryland Transportation Authority police stand by whenever a helicopter intended as cargo lands at the terminal and they were able to respond immediately to the 2:30 p.m. crash, he said.
The Robinson R-44 Raven II helicopter was registered to Somerset Aviation in Bel Alton.
The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash, a spokesman for the agency said.
Television images showed the helicopter sitting on the pavement.
The undercarriage was mangled, and the tail rotor had snapped off, but the cockpit did not appear to have sustained much damage.
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Oops! Wrong Laredo.
Mexican military helicopter full of soldiers lands at an airport in Texas - by MISTAKE | Mail Online
It's the kind of news that would have a President calling his defence staff to the White House Situation Room.
A Mexican military helicopter packed with soldiers has landed on United States soil, uninvited.
But Barack Obama can rest easy - because the unit from Mexico touched down at Laredo International Airport, Texas, by mistake, according to a spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The helicopter landed at about 3pm on Saturday - 16 miles from its intended target south of the border, a landing strip in Nuevo Laredo.
The spokeswoman said she could not share details of the incident, such as the number of occupants or whether they were armed.
Following protocol, CBP officers checked out the helicopter’s occupants, then allowed them to return to Mexico in the aircraft.
'The only thing that I can tell you is that they did land here,' the spokeswoman said. 'It was by mistake. They were processed and they were returned to Mexico.'
According to a statement from CBP, the pilot mistook the Texas airport for Nuevo Laredo airport.
This is the latest such incursion against international protocol that officials have called inadvertent, as the Mexican military increases troop deployments in north-eastern Mexico.
In July, a convoy of soldiers rolled across the international bridge at Donna, Texas, and were processed by customs and sent back across.
Laredo residents expressed their doubts about whether the helicopter landing really was a mistake.
'I am a little upset that it happened,' Janice Davis said. 'I think they knew what they were doing. I don't think it was a mistake.
'I think they were here to find out maybe what's going on. It worries me that they're so close and something could happen.'
David Sanchez added: 'I think it worries us all. I think maybe people are trying to see how far they can take things and what they can possibly get away with.'
Mayor Raul Salinas, a former FBI agent, says everything is under control.
'I want to make sure that people understand that we have a safe community,' he said. 'We have the right resources, personnel, boots on the ground. We ask Washington how important our border is.'
The Mexican military announced last week that it had wrapped up an operation called 'Lince Norte,' or Northern Lynx.
The 20-day assault on the Zetas drug trafficking organisation used 4,000 Mexican troops, deployed mostly in states bordering Texas.
The operation resulted in the death of the Zeta who controlled Nuevo Laredo and the arrest of a man the military says is a 'national level' financier for the gang.
A Mexican military helicopter packed with soldiers has landed on United States soil, uninvited.
But Barack Obama can rest easy - because the unit from Mexico touched down at Laredo International Airport, Texas, by mistake, according to a spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The helicopter landed at about 3pm on Saturday - 16 miles from its intended target south of the border, a landing strip in Nuevo Laredo.
The spokeswoman said she could not share details of the incident, such as the number of occupants or whether they were armed.
Following protocol, CBP officers checked out the helicopter’s occupants, then allowed them to return to Mexico in the aircraft.
'The only thing that I can tell you is that they did land here,' the spokeswoman said. 'It was by mistake. They were processed and they were returned to Mexico.'
According to a statement from CBP, the pilot mistook the Texas airport for Nuevo Laredo airport.
This is the latest such incursion against international protocol that officials have called inadvertent, as the Mexican military increases troop deployments in north-eastern Mexico.
In July, a convoy of soldiers rolled across the international bridge at Donna, Texas, and were processed by customs and sent back across.
Laredo residents expressed their doubts about whether the helicopter landing really was a mistake.
'I am a little upset that it happened,' Janice Davis said. 'I think they knew what they were doing. I don't think it was a mistake.
'I think they were here to find out maybe what's going on. It worries me that they're so close and something could happen.'
David Sanchez added: 'I think it worries us all. I think maybe people are trying to see how far they can take things and what they can possibly get away with.'
Mayor Raul Salinas, a former FBI agent, says everything is under control.
'I want to make sure that people understand that we have a safe community,' he said. 'We have the right resources, personnel, boots on the ground. We ask Washington how important our border is.'
The Mexican military announced last week that it had wrapped up an operation called 'Lince Norte,' or Northern Lynx.
The 20-day assault on the Zetas drug trafficking organisation used 4,000 Mexican troops, deployed mostly in states bordering Texas.
The operation resulted in the death of the Zeta who controlled Nuevo Laredo and the arrest of a man the military says is a 'national level' financier for the gang.
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"...packed with soldiers..."
Given that the aircraft in question was a JetRanger, the invasion force consisted of three of four disoriented Mexicans at most.
"A Mexican helicopter like this one..."
Not that much like the other one...
Still, it makes a change from SEMAR Mi-17s wandering over the border (as happened again last week over Roma). One of these days someone will point out that The Russians are invading!, and then the tracers will start flying.
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Given that the aircraft in question was a JetRanger, the invasion force consisted of three of four disoriented Mexicans at most.
"A Mexican helicopter like this one..."
Not that much like the other one...
Still, it makes a change from SEMAR Mi-17s wandering over the border (as happened again last week over Roma). One of these days someone will point out that The Russians are invading!, and then the tracers will start flying.
I/C
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The Canucks are fighting alongside us.....cannot exactly say the same for the folks down south!
As to invasion....look around you....that has already been done...as there are millions of the buggers here already! Just why would we worry about a few more showing up...as even they are all armed....it only means at most a dozen guns amongst them compared to the Tens of Thousands their compadres have in hand already!
We have the CIA.....they have M-13 and the C artels!
Sad....but true!
As to invasion....look around you....that has already been done...as there are millions of the buggers here already! Just why would we worry about a few more showing up...as even they are all armed....it only means at most a dozen guns amongst them compared to the Tens of Thousands their compadres have in hand already!
We have the CIA.....they have M-13 and the C artels!
Sad....but true!
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And most of those guns came from gun shows in the US. Anyone, terrorist or militiaman, can buy any number of guns without any sort of background check at any gun show. And the NRA makes sure it stays that way. Thousands of guns get shipped from the US to Mexico every week, and a few of them come back.
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Errrrr....actually....it was the ATF/DOJ/FBI under Operation Fast and Furious that put several thousand of those guns into the hands of the cartels including some used to kill at least two Federal Agents. But this is a topic for Jet Blast and not Rotorheads.
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From: Downeast
"Honest Sir....I had no idea our Rotor wash would bother that Tent....really!"
(Young Army Warrant Officer in a post flight discussion in the CO's office)
Remembering he had arranged for a photographer to record the event ahead of time!)
As I recall..."Lie, Deny, and Accuse!" was the strategy in these kinds of events.
(Young Army Warrant Officer in a post flight discussion in the CO's office)
Remembering he had arranged for a photographer to record the event ahead of time!)
As I recall..."Lie, Deny, and Accuse!" was the strategy in these kinds of events.
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OOPS!
Air Care of Kalamazoo had a Boo Boo!
http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/..._ok_after.html
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http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/..._ok_after.html
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