08 June 2009

Navy H-60 Emergency Landing

This morning, a flight of three Navy H-60s landed at Hunter AAF, one of them landing with an emergency. Due to the callsign used, I'm not sure which unit they were from or what type of H-60. NAVY 613 and flight landed with one of the aircraft flying very low and slow (tower advised Crash/Fire units that it was only flying at 70 kts). As the emergency aircraft approached, the other aircraft in the flight stayed high and above to handle radio communications. The entire flight landed without incident and taxied to Base Ops with Crash/Fire units following the emergency aircraft in.

I monitored the incident on 124.975, Hunter AAF Tower and the Fort Stewart/Hunter AAF TRS talkgroup 3504, Hunter Crash/Fire.

Mac McCormick, KF4LMT
kf4lmt@comcast.net