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| Boeing Chinook News from Oregon |
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| One worker helps to maneuver an Air Force Reserve Pave Hawk helicopter into an upright position after it was airlifted off the slopes and brought to the base of Mount Hood, Oregon, on Thursday, 6 June 2002. The copter, which crashed on the mountain a week ago during the attempted rescue of injured climbers, will be transported by flatbed truck. All crew members of the copter survived the crash. The Pave Hawk crashed while trying to rescue injured climbers who earlier fell into a crevasse about 800 feet from the summit of Mount Hood. The three climbers died in the fall, before the helicopter crash occurred. |
| An Army National Guard Chinook, tail number 91-00232 assigned to Detachment 1, Company E, 168th Aviation - "Dust Devils", located in Pendleton, Oregon, was dispatched to assist in the recovery operation. The Chinook - a much larger and more powerful helicopter than the one that crashed - used a long cable, known as a sling, to lift the battered and broken fuselage off the mountain and set it down 15 minutes later in the parking lot of the White River Sno-Park off Oregon Hiway 35. It then was loaded onto a truck to be taken to a hangar used by the United States Air Force's 939th Rescue Wing at the Air Base located on Portland International Airport. The Chinook returned once more to pick up other debris, including rotor pieces that sheared off when the Hawk crashed. |
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23 September 1997: An Oregon Army National Guard CH-47 Chinook helicopter hauls off one of two Oregon Air National Guard F-16A fighter jets Tuesday morning. The aircraft had been grounded at the Medford airport since they developed airframe cracks that were discovered during the Medford Air Show last month. They were returned to Kingsley Field near Klamath Falls. The 16-year-old aircraft were among the oldest still flying in the Air Force inventory, according to the Oregon National Guard. |
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