Black Hawk helicopter missing on Burma border

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Black Hawk helicopter missing on Burma border

Published: 19/07/2011 at 07:00 PM
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A Thai army Black Hawk helicopter with nine people aboard, including the commander of the Kanchanaburi-based 9th Infantry Division, is missing and believed to have crashed near the Burmese border on Tuesday.

The fate of the nine passengers was still not known.

Col Sansern Kaewkamnerd, the army spokesman, said the helicopter was on a mission to retrieve the bodies of five soldiers killed when another helicopter crashed in Kaeng Krachan National Park in Suan Phung district of Phetchaburi province on Saturday.

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pointoffew
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Discussion 4 : 20/07/2011 at 01:16 AM4
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Embarrassing... 5 soldiers killed in a failed rescue operation, with possibly another 14 killed in a failed attempt to OVERSEE the retrieval of the bodies of those five...

If buying fancy equipment (without radar and maps?!) is easy and lucrative, can't maintaining it be made equally interesting?

Afterthought: Should the submarines have been available, could these incidents have been avoided.
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Discussion 3 : 19/07/2011 at 10:17 PM3
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In flight school you get drummed into you that in the event of closing weather you turn around immediately and land where it is safe. Two helicopters followed protocol and the passengers and crew survived.

With two military helicopter crashes in the same area in a week it may be time to look at the qualifications of all military pilots and critically reassess their qualifications.

The other troubling question is if the other helicopter crashed on the same mountain why don't the military know if the mountain is in Thailand or 2 km inside Myanmar? AND why have they had trouble locating the crash sites by law all aircraft, civilian and military, must have locater beacons which activate and send a signal on impact.
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Discussion 2 : 19/07/2011 at 09:00 PM2
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If a third helicopter is dispatched, for heavens sake,make sure that deadly mountain is charted properly.
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Discussion 1 : 19/07/2011 at 07:55 PM1
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No problem locating with all that bling on
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