Another Chinook lost

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Another Chinook lost

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8229628.stm

Not going to have any left in my package at this rate!


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Well crap, they blew it up instead of trying to recover it....... :?
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MIKE JG wrote:Well crap, they blew it up instead of trying to recover it....... :?
It's SOP nowadays, what's going to recover it?

I'd pay good money to be a fly on the wall of the aircraft commander's interview after this one :-) The main thing is that no lives were lost.
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CelticWarrior wrote:It's SOP nowadays, what's going to recover it?
Another Chinook of course! :D
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MIKE JG wrote:
CelticWarrior wrote:It's SOP nowadays, what's going to recover it?
Another Chinook of course! :D
How many do you think we've got out there? :wink:

That was probably both of them! :lol:
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MIKE JG wrote:
CelticWarrior wrote:It's SOP nowadays, what's going to recover it?
Another Chinook of course! :D
Now you are just being silly! The other one was cannibalized to the keep the crashed one airworthy.
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LOL, that's probably true!
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doubt they ll get replaced
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