You guys sure it wasn't terrorists?
"Geese blamed in deadly copter crash" Associated Press July 10, 2014
LONDON — Geese penetrated the windshield of an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter during an evening training mission in January, disabling the pilot and co-pilot and leading to the crash that killed four US Air Force crewmembers, a military investigation revealed Wednesday.
That right there is reason to doubt it.
The helicopter crashed on the eastern coast of England while practicing a nighttime rescue mission scenario for a downed F-16 pilot.
The Pave Hawk was flying over grass-covered marshland near Cley next the Sea when geese, probably startled by the noise, rose in flight and hit the copter flying at about 110 feet above ground level.
I saw somewhere where someone said the geese don't hit the planes, it is the other way around. The geese are the ones doing their natural thing. It is the airplane that is the intruder.
Investigators concluded that at least three geese hit the windscreen, disabling the pilot, co-pilot, and the aerial gunner.
All three were rendered unconscious.
One goose also hit the nose of the aircraft, disabling the trim and flight path stabilization systems.
With both pilots unconscious and stabilization systems disabled, the helicopter banked left to the point where it had no vertical lift.
Who built these pieces of scitte?
It crashed about three seconds after being struck by the geese, investigators said.
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Looks like equipment failure to me with corresponding military cover-up as usual.
Related: Terrorists in Helicopter Attack London Tower
I would have actually bought that over the geese droppings.
"Backers of assisted dying win a key ally
LONDON — A former head of the Church of England says he no longer opposes assisted dying and says the church risks ‘‘promoting anguish and pain’’ by objecting to moves to make it legal. George Carey, a former archbishop of Canterbury, said medical advances have created an ‘‘ethical turning point.’’ Carey would allow doctors to prescribe a lethal dose to terminally ill patients with less than six months to live (AP)."
That is where this blog is going.
Honk! honk!
UPDATE: UK pound near 6-year high after inflation spike
