BLACK HAWK MISSING

Just 20 minutes ago Fox News had gotten a reptort that a Black Hawk Helicopter was mssing from Fort Drums in NY. I dont have any addintanl info yet.

I have an update. The Pentagon is now syaing the the Black Hawk is down. They belive taht 15 are on board.

Here's the Foxnews story.
www.foxnews.com...

Hope it was a safe landing and they find everone ok.

We have found it. But howver the repoter said that the wreckage was found. 15 are feared dead.

i lie on housing in fort drum, right now, no one is dead. they have found the chopper, medichoppered them to samaritan hospitol in watertown and they have a coroner around. one or two of the soldiers was seen alive and well walking around, and there are still some missing. seeing as the accident occured around two at the airfield about three miles southeast of my school, we always here the choppers and planes. today wasn't different and i didn't know it happened til my mom told me she'd be home late, she does media escort with pao.

eleven dead two alive that is the final count.

"crash-hawks" for nothing...

Thanks Phoenix for the quick update. See, this is faster than the news.

They haven't called them "Crash hawks" since the first few years of their existence. There isn't a helicopter around that matches the 'Hawk for the mission it is expected to accomplish.
If you think about how many hours, worth of flight time the 'Hawk sees every day, all around the world, you'd realize it has a great record.

Now, this response was no prompted by my employer, Sikorsky, I just stand by the product I build, day in and out.

I hope you're correct, phoenix_C. msnbc had it at 13 dead.
www.msnbc.com...

just remembering what my father used to always say about helicopters (he worked with them for years)...

"1000 different moving parts all designed for one purpose........to kill the pilot!" Just funnin' that's all...

Trying to lighten the mood a little...

This morning I heard it as 2 survivors, 11 dead...

[Edited on 12-3-2003 by Gazrok]