Should the Black Hawk be pulled from service,are does the pilots need better training ?
Crash in: Somalia Afghanistan Pakistan N. Korea is just to name a few.
2013-04-16T05:43:54Z
So FROGMAN;it's the Marines fault ?
2013-04-16T05:44:22Z
So FROGMAN;it's the Marines fault ?
2013-04-16T05:52:58Z
arty; the Huey is damn hard to beat.
2013-04-16T12:48:40Z
John D 254 million cars 9 million commercial trucks 834,000 Buses Doesn't seem like a fair comparison.
I'm probably biased to the Huey,and i'm certain the Black Hawk is a great helicopter,but rotors hitting the wall,and Black Hawks just falling to the ground makes me wonder.
Abaddon2013-04-16T06:36:27Z
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Sh*t happens. Do you think you are more qualified to pilot a helicopter? By all means, try and do so.
You don't realize how many sorties per day are flown in Black Hawks. Thousands of flying hours per DAY are put in around the globe on these helicopters. The fact that we have had so few crashes is a testament to how GREAT the training is for their pilots and how durable the craft actually are.
How many flight hours per accident are they logging and what are/were the findings from the JAG and Safety Center investigations and finally what qualifies YOU to bring the air worthiness to the entire fleet of Black Hawks (and not all were Black Hawks) into question or the Pilots skills? (and playing flight simulator video games doesn't count...)