SH-60Fs Touch Rotors over Jacksonville

[Rick]

Anybody know anything about this? Supposedly two HS-3 Seahawks enroute
to USS Harry S Truman swapped paint over the Main Street Bridge in
Jacksonville. Both helos made successful emergency landings on
opposite riverbanks a half mile downstream from the bridge.

As of nightfall the helicopters had not been moved, and their
airworthiness had not been disclosed.

This is the first time I've ever heard of two helicopters surviving
midair contact.

[John Keeney]

Rick wrote:
> Anybody know anything about this? Supposedly two HS-3 Seahawks enroute
> to USS Harry S Truman swapped paint over the Main Street Bridge in
> Jacksonville. Both helos made successful emergency landings on
> opposite riverbanks a half mile downstream from the bridge.
>
> As of nightfall the helicopters had not been moved, and their
> airworthiness had not been disclosed.
>
> This is the first time I've ever heard of two helicopters surviving
> midair contact.

The one time I saw it -Hueys, call it 1970- they spiraled in away from
each other; big fireballs and lots of dead.

[Rick]

Update:

During the night, I'm told, the Navy trucked both birds back to NAS Jax.

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

"Rick" > writes:

> Update:
>
> During the night, I'm told, the Navy trucked both birds back to NAS Jax.

I hope those boys are going to communion, mass, or whatever other holy
ritual their faith demands :-) It's not often you can sit down in one
piece in a bar and start a story with "...and then we touched
rotors...". lucky lucky guys.
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