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Tony
07-03-2009, 09:49 PM
Some of you may have already seen this;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnbullas/3608440490/

:beer:

Carl C
07-03-2009, 09:52 PM
Wow that was so avoidable. I can see some changes coming in the guard rail design.

boxy
07-03-2009, 10:52 PM
Here is some unconfirmed follow up......

"On Dec. 9, 1999, a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, with 18 people on board, crashed while attempting to land on the Navy tanker PECOS (T-AO 197) during a training exercise. The chopper's landing gear apparently snagged a metal safety net and the helicopter flipped over into the water and quickly sank. Eleven Marines were rescued by special warfare crewmen on two nearby boats. But six Marines and a sailor drowned, their bodies recovered later from the sunken wreckage by an unmanned submersible vehicle."