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AsMarine Corps investigators scour the wreckage of two
helicopters that collided near Yuma,Ariz., killing seven Marines,
they are likely to consider whether advanced technology
designed
to prevent midair collisions could avert such incidents in the
future, a Marine spokesman said
Thursday.
KPNX 12 News
Two helicopters collided about 8 p.m. Wednesday in a remote
location of the Yuma
Training Range Complex, killing seven Marines.
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KPNX 12 News
Two helicopters collided about 8 p.m. Wednesday in a remote
location of the Yuma Training
Range Complex, killing seven Marines.
The Marines, six from Camp Pendleton in California and one from
Yuma, were training fordeployment to Afghanistan when their AH-1W
Cobra and UH-1Y Huey crashed about 8 p.m.
Wednesday in a remote section of the Yuma Training Range
Complex.
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Marine investigators Thursday began combing through wreckage,
communication logs and flight
plans at the outset of two probes, said 1st Lt. Tyler Balzer,
spokesman for Marine Corps Air
Station Miramar in California.
BLOG: 7 Marines killed in midair helicopter crash
One investigation will seek to assign responsibility for the
crash, and the other will look at how
to make inherently dangerous combat training safer, Balzer
said.
Advanced technology for avoiding midair collisions will
"certainly" have a role in the safetyinvestigation, which will also
look at equipment maintenance, training and procedures leading
up
to the crash, Balzer said.
"Whenever they look at something like this, they look at what
technologies the Marine Corpscould try to develop to prevent" a
similar accident, he said.
Since 1980, the Navy has recorded 33 aviation incidents with
seven or more fatalities, accordingto April Phillips of the Naval
Safety Center in Norfork, Va.
In 1999, the Navy mandated installation of collision-avoidance
systems on new and existing
Navy aircraft. The Navy has also been testing radar technology
to help airmen avoid midair
collisions, but it was not installed on the types of aircraft
involved in Wednesday's crash.
The UH-1Y Huey and the AH-1W aircraft are equipped with lights
visible by day and night andwith night-vision goggles, says Capt.
Brian Block, spokesman for Headquarters Marine Corps.
No other midair-collision-avoidance systems are installed on the
UH-1Y or the AH-1W aircraft,Block said.
The Cobra and Huey were training together, carrying explosives,
along with at least two otheraircraft, according to Col. Robert
Kuckuk, air station commander for the Marine Corps Air
Station in Yuma.
The Yuma range, with its desert terrain, is similar to what
Marines would encounter in
Afghanistan, and the aircraft used are identical to those used
in combat, said Cpl. Steven Posy, aMiramar spokesman.
Adding technology to combat helicopters would have to be
carefully considered because weightand space are scarce, said Jay
Brown, executive director of the Combat Helicopter Pilots
Association, a veterans group.
Brown, who flew combat missions in Vietnam, over thePersian
Gulfduring the Iran-Iraq War
and in Operation Desert Storm, said any technology that uses
radar or emits a radio frequency
could be self-defeating.
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