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Today Two US Nat Guard Blackhawks Crashed at Snowbird Ski Resort in Utah
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Today Two US Nat Guard Blackhawks Crashed at Snowbird Ski Resort in Utah
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*Somebody’s so getting fired…*
Blackhawk Down 2: Utah Drift
No injuries. Crash technically occurred ~150 yards from the ski resort boundary.
Isn’t this what happened to the seal team that took down bin laden? Like the rotor wash basically rebounded off the ground and caused the helicopter to lose lift
I’m glad no one got hurt.
Wow, damn
Honest reaction: “Holy shit!”
When dust settles: “Holy crap.”
I’ve got mormon family that would react like this.
Man helicopters crash so often that’s the last vehicle I’d want to be in.
$20 million in taxpayer dollars down the tubes.
What were the doing, landing?
Can’t imagine anything good happening this close to ground with 0 visibility, especially how close they were to each other
GoPro you sonofabitch record!
I can get how one Blackhawk could crash in a particular spot. But two?
Obviously I’m not a helicopter pilot.
And this is why we practice at home first
Likely a result of Vortex Ring State or VRS. When a helicopter is close enough to the ground (varies according to rotor length), ground effect takes place where the air being pushed down bounces off the ground and provides extra lift.
However, this can create VRS over the helicopter’s blades causing it to lose thrust.
This is likely what happened.
Looks like good powder, do you got to hike up to that spot?
Do you think those were expensive?
me gusta la nieve
Could of done with some more EEEEEEVEN FLOOOOOOOOOWWWWW
Since they’re all okay, I would like to take a moment to laugh at “Think it’s 10th Mountain Division?” Did he just know the name of an Army Division, see mountains, and come to that idea?
Anyone know why they are landing there or have anymore context?
Why do people say two crashed? The one did in front, the other literally landed. It looked like the one was already having mechanical issues, and the other one was landing with it.
Damn that snow looks proper
Why are these helicopters always crashing? Every time I hear about these things is about how they went down somewhere.
There is even a movie titled about how these things crash a lot “Black Hawk Down”
I mean I kinda (on some level) understand them going down in combat, but I’ve heard them crashing constantly even in no combat scenarios (like this). It also seems like they drop in combat too easily too. You always hear them being used for surgical strike teams, which usually succeed (because the soldiers are awesome) but they lose their black hawk in the process.
I mean to me it seems like a red flag that something isn’t quite right about these things… or maybe many many things.
Are they extremely hard to fly? Are the faulty? In combat is the reason they go down a lot because they lack heavy armor? Why don’t they move to a safer platform, it’s not like spending lots of money is our short coming so we really can’t find a better chopper in 2022?
I am sure the internal technology is awesome, but that could be migrated over to a safer helicopter.
Seems like there’s been a lotta heli crashes lately 🤔👎
They certainly aren’t bush pilots.
National guards get *Blackhawks*?
How many damn armies you guys got?
I once got launched off a ski lift and broke my wrist at that resort. Been saying that place is cursed for going on 20 years now.
Glad to see my tax dollars are being used as responsibly as expected
Why tf are they hovering so slowly? Isn’t that one of the main points about a running landing? To stay in front of crap that gets thrown up?
I wonder what the pilots thought would happen? Snow obscuring your landing zone completely and making you practically blind is bad when you’re gonna do a formation landing. Especially when it’s a sloped area as well!
Blackhawk*s* Down
(It’s okay to laugh now, it’s fine, they said no injuries)
How many helicopter crashes has there been now in the past week or two?