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Originally Posted by evildick
Found this:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/23...land_a_he.html
On Dec. 9, 1999, a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, with 18 people on board, crashed while attempting to land on the Navy tanker PECOS (T-AO 197) during a training exercise. The chopper's landing gear apparently snagged a metal safety net and the helicopter flipped over into the water and quickly sank. Eleven Marines were rescued by special warfare crewmen on two nearby boats. But six Marines and a sailor drowned, their bodies recovered later from the sunken wreckage by an unmanned submersible vehicle. |
Yea I thought those two boats off to the side were Navey SEAL boats.. as far as I know the SEAL's are the only ones to use those. Nice to know at least some of them lived.. That had to be hell to get out of with that many guys on board
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