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May 31, 2012
A Seahawk helicopter flown by the "Red Wolves" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 84 crashed during night training exercises in July 2009. The two pilots and four crewmembers received minor injuries. The Navy ruled the crash a Class "A" mishap with damages to the aircraft exceeding $1million.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Sikorsky HH-60H Seahawk Helicopter that crashed in Virginia during a night training exercise at Fort Pickett in 2009 underwent extensive repairs at Fleet Readiness Center Southeast (FRCSE) and was returned to a Norfolk-based Navy Reserve squadron in May.
FRCSE artisans and support personnel spent two years rebuilding the mission-critical aircraft for the “Red Wolves” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 84, who successfully completed a functional flight check at Naval Air Station Jacksonville before heading home May 23.
The accident occurred when the Seahawk’s rotor wash caused a tarp used by ground crews to mark helicopter-landing zones to become airborne and entangled in the tail rotor causing the aircraft to flip on its left side during training at Castles Combat Landing Strip July 21, 2009.
The two pilots and four crewmembers all suffered minor injuries. The Navy ruled the crash a Class “A” mishap with damages to the aircraft exceeding $1 million.
HH-60 Planner and Estimator Mike Novak said when the main rotor blades started hitting the ground and coming apart, “things started flying all over the place” causing widespread damage.
“We took a struck aircraft and used several major airframe fittings and components from it,” he said. “We put on a new cockpit from a model “B” donor aircraft and did extensive structural repairs in the cabin overhead, specifically all four main transmission gearbox support beams.
“I rebuilt four or five helicopters when I worked in Pensacola, but I have never seen an aircraft in that bad of shape,” said Wood. “I thought they would scrap it, that it would go to the boneyard, but it didn’t. Nothing was simple on this aircraft. When the aircraft rolled it twisted to where everything was out of alignment.”
HSC-84 Pilot Lt. Cmdr. Gabriel Yancey traveled to Jacksonville and flew the successful functional check flight. Also onboard was Chief Aviation Machinist Mate Ben Powers who said there are only 35 operational “H” models serving the Fleet. He said HSC-84 and HSC-85 will soon be the only two Fleet squadrons using the “H” model aircraft.
“We have two other aircraft still operating after receiving a number of extensive repairs at this facility,” said Powers. “FRCSE turns out a good product.”