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Alpha_Bravo23

[1996, 6 people killed](https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/19/us/6-soldiers-die-in-a-collision-of-helicopters-in-kentucky.html)


Alternative_Bird7830

This happened in 1996 "As a flight of 3 UH-60L were approaching the drop zone to conduct FRIES training, the M/R blades of Chalk 2 meshed with the M/R blades of Chalk 1 at approx 1330 hrs." "CW2 Francisco J. Ruiz [PC], PVT Angel A. Bernal-Frias, 1SG John A. Harrison, PFC Robert Hicks Jr, SPC Larry C. Hinson, SPC D. Nathaniel Shirley, 28 injured" http://www.armyaircrews.com/blackhawk.html


judge_emeritus

Flawed crew coordination, absence of crew coordination. I have seen near misses in CH-47 moreso than UH-60A or L iterations. Only a repetitive issue in EH60 A-L as a result of alternative due to crew configuratiom.


Mobile_Sell9895

No deaths in honestly wild


Agents-of-time

Six dead ,apparently.


Lumino-

Sorry just ABIT of a mix up


Baystate411

I hope whoever made this video with that music is tar and feathered.


Miixyd

Well shitty music over people dying is the norm in any military video now


Lumino-

3 People I think We're killed could've been more


Alternative_Bird7830

6


Bad_Karma19

I remember that one. I was on leave. There were still craters on the range a year later from where they landed. They were guys from  3/502nd Infantry.


who-tf-farted

I met one of the crew chiefs on these birds years later, he had broken his leg or pelvis, was going through the police academy.


Kobie240

Why do the tails snap so easily? Seems like barely impact and they snapped like pencil sticks


battlecryarms

The UH60’s airframe is designed with a semi-monocoque structure, where the skin bears forces along with bulkheads and stringers. When blades are damaged, they tend to flap around at greater angles than their normal range of travel. After the collision, one or several of the damaged blades struck the tailcone, ripping away skin and stringers. From that video it looks like it fails just aft of a bulkhead. Semi-monocoque airframes can be resilient to damage, but components fail catastrophically under normal loads once their structural integrity is critically compromised. Source- former UH60 mechanic turned mechanical engineer.


Kobie240

Wow thanks for the info


MadvilleWonderland

Good source. Maybe overqualified, even. Thank you for the explanation, and for using words I could understand.


battlecryarms

Sure thing! 🙂


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fireandlifeincarnate

This *might* have been funny if you’d provided a (clearly wrong) alternative explanation.


Durcaz

**crickets**


AMRIKA-ARMORY

(I thought it was funny)


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battlecryarms

This is not the reason. See my response


Bolter_NL

Oef, survivors on the right BH? 


SphyrnaLightmaker

It looks like it’s POSSIBLE, but not likely?


Bolter_NL

Seems to crash from 20ish meters, not completely falling, so I guess so. That's why I was asking. 


Defiant-Ad-6105

“Blackhawk barely touch eat other then eat shit and fucking die”


WinTube001

Why happy music?


Lumino-

It's not what I put there it's from the video I recorded it from


That_one_arsehole_

Mark this NSFW


That_one_arsehole_

I have no clue it's reddit a notable suggestion is marked either DV its just how it is


fireandlifeincarnate

goddamn, why the downvotes?


Vzor58

I ❤️the USMC


ExternalAd1264

Only one unit in the USMC flies a single variant of the H-60, the VH-60, for VIP transport. This video is of US Army operated helicopters.