{"id":62430,"date":"2015-10-24T11:21:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T15:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62430"},"modified":"2015-10-24T11:21:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T15:21:23","slug":"blackhawk-pilots-blamed-for-deadly-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62430","title":{"rendered":"Blackhawk pilots blamed for deadly crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deaths of 11 servicemembers in a Blackhawk helicopter crash last March was blamed on the pilots by a joint investigation by the Louisiana National Guard and Special Operations Command. Apparently weather conditions for the training missions had deteriorated beyond the minimum safety standards according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62428\">Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Both crews &#8220;disobeyed a direct order &#8230; by choosing to fly in lower then (sic) briefed weather minimums.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report went on to fault the lead pilot, Chief Warrant Officer George Wayne Griffin Jr., 37, of Hammond, Louisiana, for pushing ahead with the mission even though weather was worsening March 10.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the training was supposed to take place only if cloud cover was no lower than 1,000 feet and visibility was 3 miles. Conditions were worse, with cloud cover as low at 200 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Fog began to set in about 40 minutes before the helicopters took off at 8:16 p.m., according to testimony. The same service member told investigators that Griffin dismissed concerns from members on boats where the training was to take place.<\/p>\n<p>Records show that the National Guard felt that Griffin was a top-notch veteran pilot fully capable of doing the training.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one spoke up and questioned the wisdom to conduct the mission,&#8221; the report said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deaths of 11 servicemembers in a Blackhawk helicopter crash last March was blamed on the &hellip; <a title=\"Blackhawk pilots blamed for deadly crash\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62430\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blackhawk pilots blamed for deadly crash<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62430","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=62430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}