Mineral basin heli crash

[jeeper]

No injuries after 2 Blackhawk helicopters go down near Snowbird
https://www.ksl.com/article/50353784/no-injuries-after-2-blackhawk-helicopters-go-down-near-snowbird

I bet that was an exciting ride for both helicopters. 😳

 

[Trate D]

My wife sent me this yesterday I/we were fairly worried. Her brother flys blackhawks and is in charge of maintenance scheduling on all of them at airport 2. Luckily this was a training mission so he wasn’t involved. He said they were going to assess the damage and get a recovery planned.

 

[Hickey]

I saw the a vid that @Hickey sent me and it's confusing how it happened. I thought it was only one, at first, and that it hit the tree. I assume one contacted the other? The snow kick-up was pretty intense on take-off. Glad to hear everyone was okay.

I can't even remember where I read it, but the first heli experienced white-out conditions when approaching the ground. The tail rotor struck ground and came apart, sending a blade toward the other heli, which forced it to emergency land.

 

[Hickey]

Unofficial Networks on Instagram: "🚨 BREAKING: Footage of the helicopters crashing near Mineral Basin lift at Snowbird. Thankfully nobody was injured! 🎥: Billy Halloran (@hillyballoran), Jacob Oster (@oster.jacob) #ski #skiing #snowbird #helicopterc

18K likes, 285 comments - unofficialnetworks on February 22, 2022: "🚨 BREAKING: Footage of the helicopters crashing near Mineral Basin lift at Snowbird. Thankfully nobody was injured! 🎥: Billy Halloran (@hillyballoran), Jacob Oster (@oster.jacob) #ski #skiing #snowbird #helicoptercrash...

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[Bart]

Someone made a bad decision to try a landing there in 12" of the fluffiest new powder we've had all year. Who would have guessed it would have caused white out conditions. DOH

 

[jeeper]

I didn't realize it was going to be that close to people! I figured it was back country somewhere.

 

[ID Bronco]

I'm glad everyone survived.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

I'm shocked they were training that close to the public myself.

 

[Hickey]

I still wanna help with the extraction. 😁

 

[Spork]

I still wanna help with the extraction. 😁

So how do you get helicopters out? Fix the one on site and fly it out? The one on it's side you stick on some big 8 wheel truck and do mineral basin in the spring?

 

[Hickey]

So how do you get helicopters out? Fix the one on site and fly it out? The one on it's side you stick on some big 8 wheel truck and do mineral basin in the spring?

You call Matt's Offroad Recovery, duh.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

So how do you get helicopters out? Fix the one on site and fly it out? The one on it's side you stick on some big 8 wheel truck and do mineral basin in the spring?

Heavy lift helicopter could fly it out. I highly doubt they winter them there.

The Sikorsky CH-53E could lift them both at once. It's well within the Chinook CH-47F lift too.

 

[haulinshine]

Heavy lift helicopter could fly it out. I highly doubt they winter them there.

The Sikorsky CH-53E could lift them both at once. It's well within the Chinook CH-47F lift too.

Yeah, they will most likely just have a team of Chinooks sling them out. Between the relative light weight of a Hawk (~16k) and the lift capacity of a hook with the lowish altitude and low ambient temps it isn't even a strain on them. I'm more surprised they screwed the pooch on the PL due to a white out, part of the training is low/no visibility landings. They have pretty high pucker factor but are normally really manageable as long as the crew chiefs and pilots are competent.

 

[Hickey]

The Morvair would handle it just fine.

 

[4x4_Welder]

You call Matt's Offroad Recovery, duh.

He'd even set it up so AAA will cover it!

 

[Spork]

 

[jeeper]

Black Hawk crash site in Mineral Basin secured until helicopters can be removed

A team is traveling to Utah to conduct a safety investigation into Tuesday's training accident that involved two Black Hawk helicopters from the Utah Army National Guard.

www.ksl.com