The following Chart represents the approximate times of communications associated with some of the aircraft a parameters that surrounded the UH- 6M,Tail Number 13-624, accident that occurred on 1 March 15 at approximately ::38 {Local) Central time. The Aircraft was on an approved training mission operating in Restricted Airspace, R 2915B (A-16), located at Eglin AFB in Ft Walton Beach, Florida. Pilot in Command Co-Pilot Crew Chief #1 Crewchief #2 -Chalk 2 Marine PAX CW4 George Wayne Griffin (G-Wayne) CW4 George David Strother SSG Lance Bergeron SSG Thomas Frolock Crew Communication Information Indicated by "WG" under crew Column Indicated by "DS" under crew Column Indicated by "LB" under crew Column Indicated by "TF" under crew Column. a second UH:6M that was part of a flight of two with MOJO 6--lndicated by chalk 2 ~nder crew column..... Marine (OIC) in the back of MOJO 69, accident aircraft.---lndicated by MARSOC under crew column Safety boats working the proposed drop zone in the Santa Rosa Sound--indicated b under crew column Chart Approximate time Aircraft lifts off from pad at A15 Comments made by crewmembers that indicated the environmental conditions were worse than expected (Begin approximately 27 seconds after takeoff) Comments made by crewmembers that indicated they appear to have become Spatially Disoriented Comments made by crewmembers that indicate at least one crewmember has become spatially disoriented
-.. - -- -. - - -- -- - - - - - - - - - - - - -- -- - -- --- --- - ---- --- - --- - - ---------- - - -- --- ----- ------- - ----- -- ----- - --. TAS Al : ~ Altitude Engl Eng2 Ground Local Local LO Ci Vertical Pressure Radar Torque Torque Speed Hour Minute Second Speed Transcripts Crew -156.625 1 46 "Up Left Rear" LB -158.625 1 58 "All right starters dropped guys, we got a ggod start, we got pressure, pressure, pressure coming hot on two" DS -16.625 11 2 "Clear on 2" TF -161.625 11 7 "Engage????" DS -16 11.6875.625 11 13 "I'm gonna dump fuel, you ready boss, here we go" DS -161 11.4375.625 11 15 "I'm ready" WG -163 9.625 5.9375 11 26-16 "?????and enter" DS -164 :... : 9.6.25.. 5;5625 11 3... "Pressure on the rise we got it good, there she goes, about 6 starter dropped out, Hey, were above 63, within 3, without avaoidance ranges,, 4,.6, 9 we have adequate oil pressure, transmission oil p ~~ssure : t~bhydr~unt li-~hts... -. are extinguished, back up pump is coming to auto, guys if you all wo~ld DS -163 9.625 5.375 11 31 "Coming in on the left" LB -165 8.9375 5.4375 11. 32 "Comin g auto" -.. DS -163 8.625 5.6875 11 34 "Chocks, droops and doors" DS -16-1 8.25 4.6875 11 42 "Roger" LB -158-1 14 9.9375 11 44 "There goes the droop" TF -158-1 13.875 11 11 45 "Roger Bro" DS -158-1 15.5 12 11 46 "Pull the chock" LB -159-1 36.8125 25.625 11 53 96 "Coming in right" TF -158-1 37.5625 38.375 11 56 48 "One and two fly, were in direct, were 1335 on fuel" DS -161-1 19.625 19.9375 12 27 16 "Well we're all ready to rock in the back" LB -162-1 18.8125 19.8125 12 3 16 "Alright" WG -162-1 18.6875 19.6875 12 31 48 "Mike" DS -162-1 19 19.875 12 33-32 "Brakes whnever you are ready G Wayne" DS -162-1 19.375.25 12 35-32 "Brakes to release, waiting on number uh, Chalk 2 to start, they are still fucking off over there. -168-1 18.8125 19.4375 12 41 64 "Right Before Takeoff still good" DS -169-1 19.1875.625 12 42 "Secure Right Rear" TF -167-1 18.9375 19.8125 12 44 48 "PAX Secure" TF -159-1 18.3125 19.5625 12 46 288 "Ready Left Rear" LB -171-1 18.8125 19.4375 12 56 8 "Clear the FCC flight codes" WG -166-1 18.8125 19.6875 12 58 16 "All right I'm sorry" DS -169-1 19.125 19.9375 12 59 128 "Alright I did it" WG -17-1 18.8125 19.5 13 3-32 "Alright they are starting to crank now" WG -168-1 18.9375 19.6875 13 36-64 "Dave can you get that APU off" WG -159-1 19.125 19.5625 13 42 128 "Not the Generator, there ya go" WG -167-1 19.625 19.6875 14 6 96 "Hey, we got the same guy we had on the headset all day?" DS -163-1 18.5625 19.5625 14 1 48 "Yea.on the headset" TF -162-1 18.875 19.5625 14 11 112 "OK, on" DS -164-1 18.9375 19.3125 14 15-64 "Yep, I'm here" -161-1 19.125 19.9375 14 18 64 "Ah" ~ WG
., Alt ~ Altitude Engl Eng2 Ground Local Local Loe<. Vertical TAS Transcripts Crew Pressure Radar Torque Torque Speed Hour Minute Second - Speed "It's gonna be a little bit slower, Ill give you a 3, a one minute and a thirty if -168-1 18.687S 19.S 14 19 DS you are cool with that" -167-1 18.437S 19.12S 14 24-8 "Yep, sounds good" - -171-1 19.437S.687S 14 28 8 "We got flames coming out if that exhaust man" WG -167-1 18.S62S 19.2S 14 so 16 "And if you can again, just like the other night, about ls feet off the water" -169-1 19.12S 19.S62S 14 S3 "Bout ls feet, roger" WG -166-1 18.812S 19.937S ls ls -16 "That's Purdy" LB -168-1 19 19.812S ls -16 "Sand is making some sparks in that rotor system over there" TF -168-1 19.12S 19.437S ls 24 16 "Yeah it is" WG -17.. ~- - ; -1> :: 19 >.:~ 19::;625 ls 27-128 "St Elmos fire" :........: '... -- - --. -- ' T~.. d -173 i ' =i i9s 1_9.S12S ls 34-8 "Aw they blew it all awa/. -i67 ~1 i8.687s.-.. 19.437S ls 47 "Ok G Wayne your 126.S that is uh" -164-1 18.687S 19.812S ls so 32 "That's Hurlburt Tower" -- WG -i69-1 18.812S 19.87S ls Sl -32. "Hurlburt tower, Roger" DS -168-1 18.937S 19.87S 15 53 "Number 2 is. WG -164-1 19 19.937S ls S4 "l 1 m in 11 TF -164-1 19.1875 19.8125 15 S4 32 "What" DS -166-1 19.12S 19.6875 15 SS "Number 3 is tower" WG -165-1 18.937S 19.6875 15 S6-96 "You wanna get in touch with tower once we start moving around" DS -16S -1 19.S.12S ls S9-16 "Once we uh, not till we start down the beach... back toward uh Destin if we ' decide to make that move. WG -175-1 19.125 19.5625 16 4-112 "Gotch my brother" DS -162-1 18.6875 19.375 16 23 8 "Bail looks up to me" WG -168-1 18.62S 19.S 16 3 16 "We're ready to give it a go" Chalk 2-16 -1 18.7S 19.937S 16 32 8 "All right I am gonna pick up and turn around then I'm (inaudable) WG -161-1 18.S62S 19.687S 16 3S 16 "Roger" Chalk 2-161 -1 18.687S 19.437S 16 36 32 :Clear right and up" TF -166-1 19.S62S 19.437S 16 38-64 "Clear left and above" LB I.:,. --,.. - - - - I I I - - --,_ - - - - - I ' - --- - -. -235 44.687S 44.1875.2S 16 4-8 "Tails coming right" WG -237 5.312S S.62S.2S 16 41-816 "Tails clear right" TF -238 2 77.812S 76.312S.75 16 43-6S6 "Nose Left" LB - " Wti - bs -23 16 7S.437S 76 1 16 52 96 "Wow that's a lot a sparks" LB 36.125-187 42 63.9375 64.625 22.25 17 7 112 "Gee it's dark as "explicative" That don't help none" WG 23.625-132 SS S6.187S S4.87S 24.75 17 12 256 "No, it didn't" TF -118 81 56.3125 58.6875.75 17 24-112 "Wow, its really dark' LB -17 8 6.5625 6.75 18.25 17 27 32 "Its really shitty" WG -184 44 74.375 76.625 5.25 17 37-48 "We're gonna take it real slow guys" WG -1 37 77.875 78.1875 6.5 17 39-496 "Yeah" WG -5 34 73.75 7S.62S 8.25 17 41-272 "Probably hard to find them boats" LB 26.12S -177 52 76.9375 76.5625 18 18 5 "Theres wires somewhere over there next to the road right?" TF 29.5-161 63 66.87S 69.6875 19.S 18 8 368 "Yep we're passin over the road" DS
TAS Al\ ~ Altitude Eng 1 Eng2 Ground Local Local Loe< Vertical Pressure Radar Torque Torque Speed Hour Minute Second Speed Transcripts Crew 3.5-148 76 73.9375 73 19.25 18 1 416 "Roger" TF 24.125-1 14 65.875 67.875 17 18 14 4 "Yeah I got em in sight" LB.125-14 19 57 56.8125 16.75 18 16 464 "We are high enough for the wires" LB -1 1 64.9375 61.625 15.25 18 19 96 "Yep" WG 16.125-126 85 7.75 71.3125 12.5 18 22-256 "Passin almost right over the pole" LB -155 78 72.75 74.1875 1.25 18 26-384 "Roger" WG -155 73 72.5625 73.8125 1.75 18 28-112 "Let me know when ya'll pass up those poles" Chalk 2 14.75-153 78 74.875 74.4375 11 18 31 32 "What Altitude we got" Chalk 2 15.875-153 81 74.4375 73.6875 1.75 18 33 16 "Alright you're clear of the wires" LB 16.875-147 86 68.25 7.75 1.75 18 36 8 "We're at 9 feet guys" OS.5 142~.. :'.. 8_8. :72 :?::9375. 1.5 18 39 8 "By the way I got chalk 2 stag left"...... LB.. -- - - ~-:..:..- - 19.:875 -:1:41. 9-C). 64:?75. 65:25 1.25 18 43 32 "Uh lets call em uh, 8 o clock, one and a half i:o one".. LB H.. 375... -15 73 63.6875 64.4375 3,75 18 48-96 "You got us decending?" OS -157 65 64.125 64.6875 7.25 18 49-256!'yeah" WG -16 63 64.1875 64.75 7 18 5-256 "Coming Down" WG -176 49 64.625 65.125 5 18 52-416 "say I am going to come down and uh, just for passes, us past those poles over there" WG -5 38 84.75 88.75 5 18 56-512 "Yeah-- ou ust" OS 24.625-185 45 69.9375 7.625 12.75 19 5-128 "Hey theres some trees out there, on my left door watch out for those WG 29.875-182 49 69.4375 73.375 15.5 19 9 16 "Put your search light on ral quick" chalk 2 24.75-166 59 68.75 67.125 13.75 19 12 256 "Gotcha" chalk 2 24.5-159 64 63.25 63.625 14.25 19 15 16 "Oh no you kill (inaudable)" OS 25.625-155 59 63.5625 63.625 14 19 17 144 "Oooh" OS.125-158 52 64.875 65 14.5 19 19-64 "We got poles right under those trees okay" OS.375-164 46 69.125 67.125 14.75 19 22-32 "Were over the water in five guys" OS 27.625-166 52 67.5625 71.8125 15.5 19 26 32 "Alright just keep a look on my radar altimeter" WG 27.75-148 67 62.9375 62.8125 16.25 19 29 352 "Roger That" OS 22-145 74 63.75 62.125 17 19 33 "Were over the water" LB 28.5-154 75 67 66.9375 15.25 19 39-8 "Thankyou" OS 28.5-153 75 66.375 66.5625 15.25 19 4-8 "Yeah its to dark to se the "expicative" water" WG 23.875-147 83 67.625 67.625 12 19 45 64 Tell him to uh, get his, take his uh, position lights outta flash, put em on staeady" TF -163 84 74.6875 75 11.75 19 5-24 "Turn your position lights out of flash if you would? OS -149 91 89.375 9.25.25 19 55 272 "Do you want them on?" chalk 2-116 18 95.6875 97.625 22.5 19 57 74 "Hey, were coming back to the right, uh, uh, I'm pulling back East" WG -52 143 97.5 97.875 27.5 1168 "Hey, put in, uh, 4>>>Dave put in 482 in our, uh" WG 43 238 99 99.8125 26.75 5 1248 "Uh, were putting our position lights on really quick" chalk 2 89 287 96.625 97.5625 24.75 7 1344 "482" OS 129 33 75.6875 74 25.25 8 128 "Yep" WG 137 335 7.625 65.5625 25.5 9 1264 "Can you still see m WG 142 367 84.3125 83.5 29.75 11 656 "Nope" Chalk 2 159 46 83.375 84.625 38.25 17 272 "Yep" Chalk 2 247 444 61.4375 59.4375 4.25 23 24 "Is it in there?" WG
TAS 58.75 a a.75 23.125 25.625 g () ss.s 64 111.75 116.125 159.5 Al'< ~ Pressure 247-245 254 262 287 291 319 323 323 246 571 637 742 797 989 999 15 16 1141 1176 1184 116 1156 1179 1159 1171 1194 17 1235 7.46 526 516 1'62 Altitude Radar Eng 1 Eng 2 Torque Torque 444 61.5625 59.625 441 7.875 71.125 443 72.3125 73.125 446 89.3125 91.25 459 79 74.125 459 72.875 72.8125 455 96.3125 96.125 454 97.3125 97 44 19.5 111.6875 425 17.75 15.8125 5 14.25 14 862 116.25 115.5 931 13.438 129.875 146 131.188 131.25 199 123.563 124.188 1284 9.4375 91.125 1294 89.8125 9.6875 1344 9.1875 9.875 1348 92.625 92.3125 1432 76 72.875 1453 55.4375 54.6875 1455 45.125 45.S 1443 51.625 49.25 1443 57.9375 54.25 1393 135.663 135.875 141 137.125 136.625 1432 124..63 124.333 1456 125.875 1472 97.25 99.75 1481 18 15.375 1483 113.1875 llo.s 1662 127.563 125.563 1686 132 131.625 147 135.125 134.5 1315 73..6875 72.75 1686 13 132.75 1441 126 127.313 lb26 129.125 132.688 137 113.438 115.63 Ground Speed 4.5 42.75 47.75 49.5 55.25 55.5 6 6.5 67.25 71 75.5 78.25 56 42.75 16.25 28 44.75 48 27.5 26.25 13.75 12.5 14 19 17.5 14.:as.5 ls 3.75 31.5 25 18.25 27 55.S 66.75 64.75 82 8L25 84.75 139 Local Hour 2G 2Q Local Minute za Loe;. Vertical Second - Speed Transcripts Crew 23 16 "Yeah I don't have nothing bro" OS 25-48 "482 and nothing not there" WG 27 144 "yeah you should be in" OS 29 272 "I can't see anything outright" TF 31 512 "We clim bed up in it G-Wayne, we gonna have to" OS 32 544 "Oh Yeah" WG 34 688 "Wheres our airspeed?" OS 35 64 "I got the altimeter setting" OS 37 4 OS 45 1264 51 3584 "Y-eah" 53 2928 "I got oothin" 55 27 "Okay I ~your alt P set" 59 2496 "Where you at G-Wayne" 2384 "Can I put my light on" 1 2 3S
MOJ69 Flight Path. Range rings are Statute Miles
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