More detail on this person: Richard Warren
Black (Army Aviator and Vietnam Veteran) age
57
Employed Weyerhaeuser Corporation
Summary extracted from NTSB report
Killed in Bell 206B during waterhole
reconnaissance flight in late morning with local
patchy fog and clouds when the aircraft struck a
power line neutral cable that crossed the Siuslaw
River resulting in loss of the main rotor system
controls and entanglement in wire followed by
uncontrolled crash into river terrain near
Swisshome, OR. Other helicopter pilots involved
in recovery complained the power lines were hard
to see in the steep and forested terrain in NOE
flight. He died 14 Oct 2003.
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