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Interim report released about helicopter crash at Idaho’s Moose Fire – Wildfire Today
The US Forest Service has launched a quick preliminary report in regards to the July 21 crash of the Boeing CH-47D helicopter within the Salmon River whereas engaged on the Moose Hearth 20 air miles northwest of Salmon, Idaho. The 2 pilots have been killed.
Under is the whole textual content of the narrative part of the doc which was dated July 22, 2022, however was not posted on the Wildland Hearth Classes Realized website till in the present day round midday.
On Thursday, July 20, a name when wanted CH-47D Collection Chinook Helicopter crashed into the Salmon River, adjoining to the Indianola Work Heart roughly 11 miles west of North Fork, Idaho on the Moose Hearth. The plane sustained extreme injury, the pilots have been extracted and transported to hospitals however each sustained deadly accidents. The NTSB has been notified and can be conducting an accident investigation. The USDA Forest Service has assigned a studying evaluate group.
The pilots, the one personnel on board, have been Thomas Hayes, 41, of Put up Falls, Idaho, and Jared Hen, 36, of Anchorage, Alaska.
The helicopter was operated by Anchorage-based ROTAK Helicopter Companies.
The FAA confirms that the registration variety of the helicopter is N388RA, which is one in every of two CH-47D ships ROTAK just lately bought from Columbia Helicopters.
There are unconfirmed stories {that a} hotshot crew was close by when it crashed they usually went into the Salmon River and extricated the pilots in an try to save lots of them.
The final time Flight Conscious tracked N388FA was at 3:02 p.m. MDT July 21. Due to the rugged terrain, it first confirmed it north of the Salmon Airport. Then it went northwest usually towards the Moose Hearth and misplaced monitoring at 3:12 p.m., minutes earlier than it reached the river.
For instance of the terrain right here is a photograph of the Comet Hearth I took a couple of years in the past from Freeway 93 simply east of the present Moose Hearth, 13 air miles north of Salmon, ID. The Salmon River is within the foreground.
The video beneath was shot at Penticton Airport in British Columbia July 16, 2022 when it stopped for gasoline en route from Alaska to Idaho.
The GoFundMe fundraisers for the 2 pilots will be discovered by way of the next hyperlinks:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/sup
https://www.gofundme.com/f/tho
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