Three_Per Posted May 5, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2011 I found this on the interwebs kind of an interesting rendering of what the helicopter might look like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiller Highwater Posted May 5, 2011 Report Share Posted May 5, 2011 I have only looked at the pictures I see here in this post, but does it not look like the "mechanical failure" the helicopter suffered was the tailboom breaking off when the pilot landed it on the top of Osama's wall??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three_Per Posted May 5, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2011 A photo of a piece from the heli... and some info to go along with it... "Hello, I’m a British journalist and was at Bin Laden’s compound yesterday. I picked up a bit of the broken helicopter from a field by the house. By chance it had a serial number on it. No idea if it’s of any use / interest to you, but here goes: SCFV12A107-3 next line: REV – next line: 6-25-09 (a date maybe?)" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tDawe Posted May 5, 2011 Report Share Posted May 5, 2011 Lets see what we know 1.) the tail boom fell, or broke, off. It's probably an AW139. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freefall Posted May 5, 2011 Report Share Posted May 5, 2011 more info here http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/05/army-mission-helocopter-was-secret-stealth-black-hawk-050411/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMike Posted May 5, 2011 Report Share Posted May 5, 2011 Lets see what we know 1.) the tail boom fell, or broke, off. It's probably an AW139. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet B Posted May 5, 2011 Report Share Posted May 5, 2011 Looks like they are having trouble finding experienced pilots too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfk Posted May 5, 2011 Report Share Posted May 5, 2011 It was a UH-60M, 160th "Nightstalkers" A/C and crew 2 UH60M 2 CH47... Heavily modded. Lots of neat kit on that thing.... word from the field, he setteled, hit the wall. Seal's BIP ( blew in place) Here is the funny one, you know the funny pic with Chairman O's and Hillary's facial expressions... it wasnt that they just saw a murder , it was they saw the crash live on the sat feed and the first thing that went through their minds was " oh God this is gonna be another Jimmy Carter" And for those of you who dont know, the Carter op crash cost him a second term JFK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regulus Posted May 5, 2011 Report Share Posted May 5, 2011 How would anyone know what type of aircraft was used? Unless you were part of the op and need to maintain TOP SECRET classification. Looks like some sort of Comanche tech. Must have been something fairly nasty to crash a SOAR machine. Looking at the environment of the compound, there is no way this machine 'settled with power'. Likely small arms. The Special Forces community in the US have come a long way since the Carter Administration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiller Highwater Posted May 6, 2011 Report Share Posted May 6, 2011 The dude shot a constant attitude approach on NVGs to the yard of the compound and landed his friggin tailboom right on top of the wall! I would bet every penny I'll ever have on that! Somebody post the video that Hilary saw... That'll show exactly what happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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