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Another Chinook lost

Posted: 30 Aug 2009, 16:39
by Garysb
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8229628.stm

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


Gary

Posted: 30 Aug 2009, 17:53
by MIKE JG
Well crap, they blew it up instead of trying to recover it....... :?

Posted: 30 Aug 2009, 18:09
by CelticWarrior
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.

Posted: 30 Aug 2009, 20:22
by MIKE JG
CelticWarrior wrote:It's SOP nowadays, what's going to recover it?
Another Chinook of course! :D

Posted: 30 Aug 2009, 20:33
by CelticWarrior
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:

Posted: 30 Aug 2009, 22:24
by Firebird
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.

Posted: 31 Aug 2009, 00:39
by MIKE JG
LOL, that's probably true!

Posted: 02 Sep 2009, 19:30
by 92rc11
doubt they ll get replaced