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Marine Training Helicopter Makes Unscheduled Landing In Molino
August 13, 2024
A Marine training helicopter made an unscheduled landing Monday afternoon in Molno.
There were no injuries reported when the TH-57C training helicopter landed in an open grassy area near the intersection of Highway 196 and Chestnut Road.
The aircraft crew could be seen up and walking around out of the helicopter, which suffered no obvious damage in the incident.
The helicopter was removed by truck a short time later.
NorthEscambia.com photos by Kristi Barbour, click to enlarge.
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10 Responses to “Marine Training Helicopter Makes Unscheduled Landing In Molino”
Very possible a chip light which also means lasap
I had a Navy Jet Ranger make an emergency landing at my place one night. The story was that a bug had hit the windshield and they had to take a sample for DNA analysis. I suspect they just wanted to land at my place.
Would rather see them make an unscheduled landing than see another training accident. Stay alert out there. Make it home.
Helicopters main mission to be successful: beating air into submission
In the event of engine failure, helicopters can do a controlled soft landing. It is called auto-rotation and all helicopter pilots are trained how to do it. Not like the movies, the helicopter can land fairly safely.
The whole scenario could have been a training mission for those on the outside, as well as in the Copter. God bless our Armed Forces!
The most common reason for this is an over-torque warning light on the rotor mast. Try to pull up or turn too quickly and it lights up. the limit is set lower because it’s training, so every now and then it will happen.
Instructor takes over, lands normally as soon as possible, and calls for the assist.
the most common reason the helicopter have an unscheduled landing is the helicopter has an over-torque warning light if a maneuver is attempted too aggressively.
the limit is lower than normal usage because of the trainees.
if the over-torque warning comes on, NATOPS guidance then becomes “land as soon as possible” NATOPS: Naval Air Technical Operations Manual.
instructor then takes over the aircraft, and lands at first convenient location in a normal manner. in this case the student pilot is given a hard time until the next trainee over-torques the rotor.
Well said, so ditto!!
What goes up must come down….
Glad it was a safe landing and not a scary for the crew