bentwaters81tfw Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8579593/Chinook-crew-lucky-escape-RAF-helicopter-hits-countryside-power-lines-exercise.html ZA683 I wonder if it will screw the airframe, like it did the Apache? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Lucky the crew were able to put it down OK,....... power lines are the worst enemy of support helicopter crews,..... especially in the dark. Woder if they were marked on the map? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truro Model Builder Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 From reading about it on PPRuNe it seems that it struck low voltage lines, so damage was not too bad considering. The angle of the damage across the nose is interesting, and makes you wonder how the rotor blades did not get involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tornado 01 Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 If the flight radar sites are correct with the right serials.... It flew back to Odiham last night 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellsprop Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 20 hours ago, Truro Model Builder said: From reading about it on PPRuNe it seems that it struck low voltage lines, so damage was not too bad considering. The angle of the damage across the nose is interesting, and makes you wonder how the rotor blades did not get involved. I think it's quite possible one of the rotor blades caught a wire too. One of the head on photos does show a lump in one of the rotors! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brown Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 Got to love the Daily Mail reporting! Thankfully everyone safe. Investigation will be held. The Chinook is a tough old bird and most likely did fly home without issue. It certainly would have had a replacement crew though! Rick. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooby Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 On 8/5/2020 at 5:12 PM, tonyot said: Lucky the crew were able to put it down OK,....... power lines are the worst enemy of support helicopter crews,..... especially in the dark. Woder if they were marked on the map? When flying low level we always look for wires, at night it is tough. In my Griffon and Twin Huey squadron we always took extra eyes when we were doing low level flying. But you know all this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooby Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 On 8/7/2020 at 11:48 PM, Rick Brown said: Got to love the Daily Mail reporting! Thankfully everyone safe. Investigation will be held. The Chinook is a tough old bird and most likely did fly home without issue. It certainly would have had a replacement crew though! Rick. Had a CF-5 make an emergency landing many years ago at our base, he was flying low level down a river valley when he flew under high voltage power lines, the diameter of that wire was amazing, he stretched the cable good, it snapped just before the back seaters throat. Only buffed the front canopy, snapped the second windscreen. Both crew were lucky. When the wire snapped in two it left deep gouges on the wings. The pilot of that CF-5 would die ten years later in a CF-18 in a low level flight too. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busnproplinerfan Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Good idea now for a chopper that comes with a damaged windshield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blimpyboy Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 4 hours ago, Scooby said: In my Griffon and Twin Huey squadron we always took extra eyes when we were doing low level flying. As if flying a helicopter wasn't bad enough - rotary wings go against all laws of god and man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 20 hours ago, Scooby said: When flying low level we always look for wires, at night it is tough. In my Griffon and Twin Huey squadron we always took extra eyes when we were doing low level flying. But you know all this. Cheers Scooby,..... yeah I`ve been there,..... before NVG`s,...... it got a bit scary in Turkey when we flew over a motorway which wasn`t even on the map,.... eyes out on stalks after that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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