Interesting incident...

[LetsFly]

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20121128X43813&key=1

Check that out. I believe that the restricted area mentioned is Luke AFB. Any thoughts?

 

[Brett327]

Probably aliens.

 

[Pugs]

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20121128X43813&key=1

Check that out. I believe that the restricted area mentioned is Luke AFB. Any thoughts?

Be interesting to see what the aircraft attitude was at impact. See 18 years later and ASO mishap site investigation questions still won't leave my head.

 

[707guy]

Be interesting to see what the aircraft attitude was

I think her attitude is more in question...

 

[Old R.O.]

Tacna is on the northern border of the Barry Goldwater range and is just east of Yuma.

 

[wink]

There was also a nasty little dirt strip along side I-8 at Tacna. For years there were a couple broken down airplanes parked there. No high terrain for miles. Can be very dark at night. Tacna is very small. Just couple dozen old clapboard houses and mobil homes. Doesn't make much light.

 

[BusyBee604]

There was also a nasty little dirt strip along side I-8 at Tacna. For years there were a couple broken down airplanes parked there. No high terrain for miles. Can be very dark at night. Tacna is very small. Just couple dozen old clapboard houses and mobil homes. Doesn't make much light.

Yeah, I remember that airstrip well from my many weekend auto roundtrip PHX-SAN-PHX in the '80s/'90s to visit my kids. It was a crop duster base only yards south of, and adjacent to I-8. Had a huge flat bed trailer loaded with empty pesticide tins, wreckage of a duster or two, and several of what appeared to be operable duster aircraft.

Wondering how the Tacna area dirt strip is tied into this somewhat unusual & bizarre accident?
BzB

 

[MIDNJAC]

Is that strip the one that is labeled "TACTS airfield"....as in the one just on the other side of that first set of mountains due east of cactus west and Yuma?

 

[squeeze]

Is that strip the one that is labeled "TACTS airfield"....as in the one just on the other side of that first set of mountains due east of cactus west and Yuma?

No. Tacts airfield is in the 2301w. Tacna is north of the range.

 

[MIDNJAC]

No. Tacts airfield is in the 2301w. Tacna is north of the range.

Ahh gotcha. Missed that part (it being out of the range). As an aside, I miss that place. Obviously Fallon is a good place too, but having that place in your backyard is just incomparable to anything we have out east. I'm sure you remember from NKT.

 

[ChunksJR]

Any thoughts?

Certainly eerie. I will tell you, however, that if you do enough research, you'll find some very interesting NTSB reports...and a few that make you go "hmmmm..."

I read all 246 fatal helicopter accidents (US civil) from Sep 2002-Sep 2012 for data for my Masters Thesis. My favorite was this one: http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20100621X31143&key=1

Actually laughed while reading it, it's so asinine.

 

[BigBadBoJenkins]

Certainly eerie. I will tell you, however, that if you do enough research, you'll find some very interesting NTSB reports...and a few that make you go "hmmmm..."

I read all 246 fatal helicopter accidents (US civil) from Sep 2002-Sep 2012 for data for my Masters Thesis. My favorite was this one: http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20100621X31143&key=1

Actually laughed while reading it, it's so asinine.

That link isn't working for me. Anyone else?

 

[ChunksJR]

That link isn't working for me. Anyone else?

Try again, NTSB server was a little hazy right after I posted. Works now.

 

[BOMBSonHAWKEYES]

This is why you learn the LATT rules verbatim.

 

[UMichfly]

This is why you learn the LATT rules verbatim DON'T BE A RETARD.

FTFY.