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Imagine you’re getting out of your house and the entire fuselage of a twin-engine Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashes right in front of you. This is exactly what happened when a Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion lost the Chinook it was carrying.
To give you an idea about how this may have looked from the outside, here is the Super Stallion:
And this is the Chinook:
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Ouch! Very close to that house!
Way too close. If the Chinook dropped just half a second later it would have landed on that house.
Am i missing something? Why was the Chinook fuselage in a town anyway? Had it been shot down or something?
Looks like they were trying to recover the fuselage after a crash. (Or engine failure) not clear here. I suspect that the Chinook had a mechanical failure rather then being shot down. And it is reasonable for them to take it back for scrap/repairs. Rather then destroy if it was in a dangerous area after being shot down. Looks like it was prepared for lifting and had parts removed before lifting.
Which isn’t to say that the crash wasn’t pretty hard. Looks like the rear tail was lost in the impact.
Suffice to say, after that second crash? Not sure much bar scrap metal is salvageable.
The base of the carrying heli did look rather rusty, but im sure thats not the cause