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Chinook wire strike

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Seems apart from minor bumps and bruises no one was seriously hurt.

www.dailymail.co.uk

RAF crew have lucky escape when Chinook crash lands in Welsh field

Dramatic pictures show the damage to the giant chopper after it hit power cables in Llangynin, Wales - and crash landed in a field. The helicopter was wrecked when it hit the electricity pylon.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk
 
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That should make for an interesting and potentially quite short board of enquiry.

Board: Tell us about the pre-flight briefing covering the hazards on your planned route
Crew: Oh poo
Board: Show us the map you were using and the powerlines marked on it?
Crew: Oh double poo.......
 
It'll be as good as new with a few strips of bodge tape, a lick of paint and some polish.
The front seaters will be looking to blame someone for putting power lines across a Welsh valley and wondering if they'll be charged for cleaning the brown stains from their grow bags.
Still its nice to know they all walked away, no doubt with soggy, sticky and smelly undies
 
Downsizer said:
Pretty lucky.
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From memory Chinooks don't have wire cutters built on (could be wrong it's been a while) so if they didn't cut the wires it's quite fortunate the blades weren't messed up big time by the dangling electric string, as Downsizer says pretty lucky.
 
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