86-01647
          (86-1647)

 

 

             86-01647, Boeing D model kit number M3152, was a CH-47D helicopter. The U.S. Army acceptance date was 9 February 1987. As of 22 June 1998, 86-01647 had accumulated 1,710.9 D model hours and 6,524.2 total aircraft hours.

   86-01647 was a conversion from the original A model Chinook 66-00074.

   On 5 March 1986, 86-01647 was inducted into the D model program, converted, and initially assigned to an unknown unit at Fort Sill, located in the State of Oklahoma.

   At some point, and as of 15 June 2010, 86-01647 was assigned to Detachment 1, Company B - "Mile High Hookers", 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion (GSAB), 135th Aviation, Army National Guard, located in the State of Colorado.

   On 15 June 2010, 86-01647 was involved in an accident.

   While attempting a rescue mission on Little Bear Peak in Colorado, the aft rotor system experienced contact with the mountain. The aircraft was extensively damaged during the subsequent crash landing.

   As of 15 June 2010, this aircraft was 43.9 years old.

   As of 15 June 2010, the last known location of 86-01647 was in Colorado, assigned to Det 1, Company B, 2-135th GSAB.

   Aircraft status: Crashed.

 

 

          Colorado Guard Dings Rotor Blades

 

             15 June 2010: ALAMOSA - A Chinook helicopter, 86-01647, made a hard landing on one of the most difficult mountains to climb in Colorado on Tuesday night, while trying to save a climber who later died.

   It happened on Little Bear Peak, which is near Alamosa.

 

             Climbers Kevin Hayne, 18, and Travis Winder, 17, both from Highlands Ranch, were climbing the rock face of Little Bear Peak in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains Tuesday when Hayne fell.

 

             The Alamosa County Search and rescue says Winder immediately left to get help.

 

             A spokesperson at Buckley Air Force Base says a Chinook helicopter training at Fort Carson was called to rescue a climber.

 

             Buckley Air Force Base says around 7 p.m. the tail of the chopper hit part of the mountain as it tried to search for Hayne. The pilot was able to land the helicopter in a small field at 12,000 feet. A Black Hawk helicopter took the aircrew back to Fort Carson. None of the 11 crew members was injured.

 

             Three civilian emergency responders made it to the hikers, but Hayne had already died. Search and rescue workers say due to nightfall they decided to wait until morning to recover Hayne's body.

 

             The Chinook helicopter, assigned to Detachment 1, Company B - "Mile High Hookers", 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion (GSAB), 135th Aviation, Colorado Army National Guard, was upright and extensively damaged. A security team is guarding the helicopter until it can be removed.

 

             The aircraft's aft rotor system struck the mountain twice. The first strike was at about 13,500 feet. Shaking severely, the aircraft was flown down and away from the mountain. Just prior to crash landing in a small marsh at 11,500 feet, the aft blades struck the mountain again and the aircraft landed very hard. The airframe is buckled mid-point. The aft right gear was ripped off and the ramp area was displaced upward about two feet above the cabin floor area. The aircraft is currently being dismantled for extraction by another CH-47D.

 

             Little Bear Peak is at the end of the Sangre de Cristo Range and is just southwest of Blanca Peak. It is in the Rio Grande National Forest, on the border between Alamosa and Costilla Counties. Little Bear tops out at 14,037 feet above sea level.

 

 

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