Columbia Chinook Crash in Peru

[albatross]

Tragic news indeed.
I had the privilege of working beside the Columbia crews in Peru a number of years ago - a great bunch of guys and solid professionals too. A joy to watch their skills in operation.
Thoughts and prayers are with them and their families.

[SASless]

I have stood at a several sites like those.....and the experience is very sobering. The amazing forces that exist in large machines can cause such destruction when out of control due to a failure of some kind. Combine the large fuel load and way too often the result is as we see in the video.

My condolences to the Columbia folks and families for their loss of family, friends, and co-workers.

[industry insider]

Semi Demi

I was relating my comment to the link posted which was a link to rebels burning 3 helicopters

This is tragic news, but I hate to bring this up... what if someone else took a shot, and took the aircraft out? Or maybe I think too far ahead...

BBC News - Peru rebels burn helicopters at jungle airfield

I did not specifiaclly google the BBC for the BV234 Accident pictures, frankly I did not really need to look at a picture of another burned out helicopter in which 7 people perished.

[alouette]

@ industry insider;

I pasted this link into my post because of the recent violence in the area.

[The Sultan]

Any Update?

Has there been update on this accident? Initial press reports indicate a catastrophic event after loss of rotor sync. A continuing fatal flaw of tandems.

The Sultan

[Paul Stephenson]

Condolences

I was the Crew Chief when Colimbias first Chinnok carshed in British Columbia.
This affected me very badly.Jim Coats gave me the biggest hug .
I had to get Jean Pecka out of the wreck.
He was dead under the fuselage and actually gave me a black eye when i fell on him.
Helor dddid give a crap of my condition and I had to spend months investigating and wondering what I did wrong.
I have deep feelings for this accident and pray for the Crew.
Mistakes do happen but who knows what went on.
I would never speculate
I now work for an Aerospace company and dont do that work heli logging

A day does not go by that I dont remember the guys or the crash.

[kwick]

Any updates on this accident?

Very sorry for the loss of lives, we have to work on avoiding the occurence of this kind of tragic events. Does anybody have any recent news or comments so we can get the updated info about this accident?