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          Alabama Chinook Makes Emergency Landing

 

         
A U.S. Army Chinook helicopter from the Alabama National Guard lands in a cow pasture after an in-flight emergency forced it down. Members of the media walk away as the crew shuts it down to make repairs.

             29 October 2003: A National Guard helicopter, tail number unknown, manned by members of Company F, 131st Aviation, from Birmingham, Alabama, was carrying six members of the media to Camp Shelby, Mississippi, for a media day. The Chinook helicopter left Northwest Alabama Regional Airport in Muscle Shoals shortly before 8 a.m. and was transporting reporters and photographers from WHNT-TV, the Moulton Advertiser, the Arab Tribune and the TimesDaily. Shortly before 9:30 a.m., a hydraulic line in the tail of the helicopter ruptured, causing the crew to make an emergency landing.

   F Company was alerted in October to prepare for deployment to the Middle Eastern Theater and will go on active duty on or about 1 January 2004.

   Below, U.S. Army Specialist Daniel Stewart and Chief Warrant Officer David King check for additional problems on their flying machine. The tail number is unknown.

         
U.S. Army Specialist Daniel Stewart and Chief Warrant Officer David King check for additional problems on their flying machine.

 

         

 

 

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