More detail on this person: Terry Wayne Jacobs
was killed in a helicopter crash while fighting
fires in California on 08/04/2006. This information was last updated 05/18/2016
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Date posted on this site:
03/10/2024
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Survivors: Never married and no children
From: Bernard R Harvey
That crash was on 4 August. Steve Dillman
(Gunslinger 39) had been flying that Crane and had
just finished his rotation. I talked to him week
before last and he said the aircraft was at the
dip-site when it picked up a severe vibration.
The crew pickled the load and tried to get it to a
landing site. It slung a tail rotor blade and,
before they had gone much over a hundred feet, it
slung the tail rotor gearbox, went into a spin and
the rest is history. Guess the aircraft wound up
in the river.
They grounded all the cranes for an inspection and
replaced a bunch of blades etc. They are back
flying now and when I talked to Steve he was
enroute back to relieve one of the other crews.
From: "doc daugherty"