{"id":39337,"date":"2014-01-16T16:13:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T21:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39337"},"modified":"2014-01-16T16:13:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T21:13:25","slug":"hard-landing-kills-one-at-hunter-aaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39337","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hard Landing&#8221; kills one at Hunter AAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/1-killed-in-army-helicopter-hard-landing-in-ga-1.262444\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that one crew member died  when a Black Hawk of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment had a &#8220;hard landing&#8221; at their station, Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, GA;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;They were on final approach,&#8221; [Army Maj. Allen Hill, a spokesman for the crew&#8217;s aviation unit] said. &#8220;Nothing seemed out of the ordinary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hill said he did not know how badly the helicopter was damaged or if it landed on the tarmac or in the grass. Local television news footage taken from a distance showed the aircraft leaning to one side near the base&#8217;s runway.<\/p>\n<p>Though the helicopter hit the ground with enough force to kill and injure crew members, Hill insisted the aircraft had not crashed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The difference is in a hard landing the pilot had more control, as opposed to a crash which would have been something more severe,&#8221; Hill said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two other members of the crew were injured, but names haven&#8217;t been released yet pending notification of families. <\/p>\n<p>A lot of aircraft have been affected by particularly harsh gravity lately, but I&#8217;m sure it has nothing to do with budget and training cuts. It&#8217;s only a coincidence. And a reminder that training kills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that one crew member died when a Black Hawk of the 160th &hellip; <a title=\"&#8220;Hard Landing&#8221; kills one at Hunter AAF\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39337\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Hard Landing&#8221; kills one at Hunter AAF<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}