Training exercise helps prepare for possible chopper crash
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As the fire vehicle stops during the training exercise, several firefighters emerge and ready a hose to approach the helicopter. Aircraft fires typically burn much hotter than house fires, and aircraft frames are made of composite materials that billow potentially deadly smoke as they burn.
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Training exercise helps prepare for possible chopper crash.
It is a call no one ever wants to receive.The pilot of one of Yuma Proving Ground's UH-72A Lakota helicopters radios the control tower at Laguna Army Airfield (LAAF) that there is a burning electrical smell coming from the instrument panel and that he is losing control of the aircraft. Read Training exercise helps prepare for possible chopper crash...
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