{"id":74871,"date":"2017-09-22T10:20:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T14:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74871"},"modified":"2017-09-22T10:20:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T14:20:55","slug":"army-botched-repair-caused-tennessee-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74871","title":{"rendered":"Army: Botched repair caused Tennessee crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/report-faulty-repairs-caused-fatal-army-helicopter-crash-155310054.html\">Associated Press<\/a>, that a helicopter crash in Tennessee in December 2015 was caused by an improperly installed repair part &#8211; which failed and caused the death of two crewmembers from the 101st Airborne Division;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pilots \u2014 Kevin Weiss, 32, of McHenry, Illinois, and Alex Caraballo-Leon, 35, of Patillas, Puerto Rico \u2014 had a little more than 20 seconds notice that the helicopter was in serious trouble as it flew 700 feet (215 meters) above the ground, but the report found that the crash was unavoidable once the small part either malfunctioned or didn&#8217;t work at all.<\/p>\n<p>The report says investigators found fault with work performed by three soldiers who replaced bearings on the helicopter in November 2015. The report redacted the soldiers&#8217; names and specific explanations of what was done wrong, but recommended more inspections when repairs are made.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Associated Press, that a helicopter crash in Tennessee in December 2015 was caused &hellip; <a title=\"Army: Botched repair caused Tennessee crash\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74871\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army: Botched repair caused Tennessee crash<\/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":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74871","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=74871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}