[MilCom] GA MH-47 Helo Crash

Mac McCormick III kf4lmt at comcast.net
Thu Jun 1 16:54:37 EDT 2006


I was working this morning, so I can't confirm it as an MH-47
or ID which one it may have been.  Local news is also IDing
it as an MH-47.  The 3-160th SOAR here at Hunter has both
MH-47Es and MH-47Gs, I'll post more if I pick up anything 
locally.

Mac
Savannah, GA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason R" <jason_esva at yahoo.com>
> A MH-47  helicopter clipped a rural television tower
> and crashed Thursday morning,killing four soldiers on
> a training mission.As it flew past a television
> station's 1,000-foot-tall tower,it clipped a wire
> The helicopter had left Hunter Army Airfield in
> Savannah and went down in rural Colquitt County just
> after 8 a.m.A fifth soldier aboard the MH-47 Chinook
> helicopter survived was rushed to a local hospital




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