Approach, December 1st, 2001
H-46s are older than most of the men and women who fly them. The manufacturer's plates are dated mid- 1960s. The logbooks, on average, report about 12,500 to 13,000 total hours on each airframe. Four months into a cruise, with a two-plane detachment, recurring problems with such old aircraft become par for the course.
As a second crewman while deployed aboard USS New Orleans, I was scheduled to fly on an EOD minex training mission--a good deal for a Gator SAR crew. The flight crew knew one another well and had spent many hours in starboard D together. The mission brief was short; the HAC st...
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