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This was the first MH-53E to crash. [57] On 9 May 1996, a CH-53E crashed at Sikorsky's Stratford plant, killing four employees on board. This led to the Navy grounding all CH-53Es and MH-53Es. [50] On 10 August 2000, a MH-53E Sea Dragon crashed in the Gulf of Mexico near Corpus Christi and resulted in the deaths of four of the six crew members.
The documentary examines the events leading up to and immediately after the 2014 crash of a Sikorsky MH-53E Sea Dragon off Cape Henry, Virginia. [1] Three crew members perished in the crash, among them Lieutenant Wes Van Dorn. [2] The documentary exposed widespread reliability issues across both Navy and Marine Corp 53E fleets. [3] [4]
A United States Navy Sikorsky MH-53E Sea Dragon of HM-14 BuNo 163051 crashed on the runway at Bahrain International Airport. All 18 men and woman on board survived with only a few cases of minor injuries. [36] 11 April
A Sikorsky MH-53 Sea Dragon crashes into the Persian Gulf at 2105 hrs., shortly after taking off from the USS Peleliu, 40 miles N of Bahrain. All 6 service members on board were killed. The aircraft was part of squadron HM-15 based out of Naval Air Station Alameda, near San Francisco. [67] 5 October
A MH-53M Pave Low IV of the 21st Special Operations Squadron approaches the refueling basket of an MC-130P Combat Shadow for in-flight refueling during the 2000 Mozambique flood. The MH-53J Pave Low III helicopter was the largest, most powerful and technologically advanced transport helicopter in the US Air Force inventory.
A United States Navy Sikorsky MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter crashed into the Atlantic Ocean 18 nautical miles (33 km) off the coast of Virginia, killing three of the five crew members [149] [150] 15 January A USN Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet of VFA-143 crashed off Virginia, pilot was rescued. 16 January
On January 14, 2016, two Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters belonging to the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing of the United States Marine Corps collided over the Pacific Ocean off Oahu's North Shore in Hawaii. [1] [2] Each helicopter carried six U.S. Marines from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463. The search and rescue operation located the ...
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