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Navy helicopter rotor hit flight deck in incident that killed five sailors

By Mike Brest
Published September 8, 2021 3:10pm ET
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Navy helicopter rotor hit flight deck in incident that killed five sailors
An MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter flies by the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut during a replenishment-at-sea evolution in the Arabian Sea on Dec 4, 2012. (U.S. Navy photo) 

The Navy helicopter crash that killed five sailors began when the main rotor hit the flight deck.

As the MH-60S helicopter touched down on the USS Abraham Lincoln, it experienced “side-to-side vibrations causing [the] main rotor to strike [the] flight deck,” before falling overboard, according to a center mishap report.

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