I love how the weapons officer was on the phone with tech support while looking in hydraulics bay. "Yes I turned it off and back on and it still will not pressurize."
@@MatthewHensley8304 I mean "back in the day" it was a few analog gauges and hydraulics and linkages. No computer telling that hydraulic pump exactly how much to pressurize to and which valves to open for all sort of reasons.
That's why nearly all military operations have at least two members. So one can report on another's behaviour. I doubt they stayed for longer than 30 minutes, and then they returned to base once sufficient information (status, location, etc.) was relayed to the ATC.
Awe it’s so sad to see the mommy Apache circling her baby unable to help. I’m glad the baby Apache was ok after human intervention. Faith in humanity restored!
I can remember an incident as an aero scout in a OH-6 losing the tail blade assembly after a large piece of Soundproofing became dislodged, was ripped out the open door and it cleaned the assembly off the gearbox. We did a running landing into family’s back yard. The wife was hanging laundry with their two youngen’s on their swing set, Dad changing the oil in their car......did a textbook landing, shut down and asked if we could use their phone. They were so excited regarding the situation, made us lunch while waiting for a replacement tail rotor assembly by a Huey to get there. I was the units prop and rotor tech and was flying with a future test pilot. I changed everything out, balanced it and we did a quick test flight then departed. I sent the family a nice card with dinner reservations to thank them for their hospitality.
Bad but then got good. I'm not a pilot but I know how important the tail rotor is. I was stationed in Vietnam from 68-69 and one day I was walking to the mess hall and a Huey flew overhead and I noticed the tail rotor came off. It then tried to land in an adjoining field but crashed and exploded. I ran to the tall fence nearby and climbed up but the concertina wire stopped me. I hung on and watched a couple of Army guys come out of their radio shack right next to it, trying to get the crew out of the fire. They got them out but a few didn't make it. My barracks was directly across the street from Hotel 3, the large helipad where almost every type of helo landed and launched. Glad you were able to do what you did. Cheers, Bob Powell, CMSgt, USAF(Ret)
This happened to me in the 1990's. We were flying an OH-58C and had to make an emergency landing in a German elementary schoolyard as there was no other open area. Classes let out and we became instant celebrities with about 200 kids and let every one of them sit in the cockpit for a minute. International relations, lol. The contact team came out, fixed the bird and we were home for dinner.
Landing in the back yard is every boy's dream! As a FF in my city we got a call from our dispatch of a military helicopter making an emergency landing next to one of our highways. We got there in time to see it land. The crew told us they had gotten a "check engine light" that meant "set it down now, where ever you are-now" - that's what the pilot told us, lol. We stood by until a unmarked van and pickup arrived to repair the problem and they took off a couple of hours later. The crew were very cool, we all set around and joked about what people may have thought. Had a few people pull up and ask. I enjoyed the time with the crew, they were from different parts of the country and were only in town for a few days. They were having an upgrade done to their helicopter and they had some kind of meeting or class to attend as well. Our town has The Redstone Arsenal as well as several military helicopter contractor businesses. It was a black UH-60. I've never seen a black one. I've heard the stories of the conspiracies and the black military helicopters. The crew told us the paint shop was probably out of dark green and sand colors. We thought "Yeah, right." But we had a good laugh and a good time. Since then I have had another UH-60 helicopter landing due to "mechanical issues" with almost the same results. But the 2nd was the normal color, lol. I really respect these young guys and what they contribute and sacrifice.
Lived in west central Louisiana, not far from peason ridge. Ft Polk always doing training and in the summer, my 38 acres made good emergency LZ for birds. One year, had UH 60 land, crew ask what would I charge to run them to local store for ice and cokes. Became regular event every other day. Great bunch of guys.
I like the way you reversed the footage of the of the H-60. Cleaver. I remember a time, yeeears ago in Oregon, when an Air Force rescue helicopter made an emergency landing in a farmer's mint field. The crew, thinking the farmer would be pissed out of his mind seeing his crop destroyed, seeing the farmer coming out with a big smile on his face and invited the crew in for coffee while they waited for maintenance to arrive. The crew asked the farmer why he wasn't mad. The farmer replied: "Because I know Uncle Sam just bought my entire crop." True story.
I know people are just joking when they laugh at the weapons officer on the phone with the chopper support, making Microsoft reboot jokes. Honestly, I'd do the same: call the base and ask to talk to the mechanics. It's no different from calling your car dealer for support when something craps out on you and your vehicle is stuck in the middle of nowhere.
My first assignment was as an aeroscout platoon leader in West Germany during the cold war. We would fly the fenced border from one end of our sector to the other. About midway, there was a bratwurst stand for the German tourists. We'd land there to grab a bite. All the people in line for the bratwursts would run over to see the helicopter so the copilot would stay and entertain them while the pilot would stroll up to the brat stand and buy the food. Worked every time.
Grew up on a ranch near Ft. Hood Texas, when I was 14, a CH-47 set down on the field near our house and barn. We gave them the address and directions from Grey Army Airfield so the maintenance guys could easily find it. We had a family BBQ going and the crew and maintenance guys joined. Became a once a month thing, a helicopter or two landing, BBQ loaded up in coolers to keep it hot and the other stuff cool, the crews chilling with us. We slaughtered our own cattle and pigs and the unit pitched in, so more than enough beef and pork to go around. It was the main reason I joined the Army and went AVN, well, that and I was advised on the best MOS for me. Few qualified for my MOS, I was quickly made an E-5 because my slot was supposed to be an O-3. I only missed one question on my ASVAB, blew the doors off. It was a rush to be sitting in an OH-58D on a maintenance check flight with a Blackhawk next to us doing the BBQ run to my home when I inevitably got stationed back at Ft. Hood. They knew who I was before I got to that duty station, it was like coming home before getting home.. Weird and awesome.
When I was a kid living in the country of Kentucky I lived along the flight path of Fort Campbell. I'd wave at the C-130s flying tree top and the whole formation would tip their wings at me. As a kid that was the coolest thing ever.
My parent lived in Hanoi and in 1972 they waved at the American. Needless to say The American greet them back with heavy ordnance lol. Glad they made it out alive
That's a 1930s Weimar flag flying in rural Pennsylvania. Either these guys are Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch speakers, or that flag's there to represent something... else.
@@mho... I was referring to Pennsilfaanisch-Deitsch, a local variety of German spoken in the United States and Canada which has origins from the Pfalz (or _Palz_ as speakers call it).
@@mho... Bevor man klugscheißt, sollte man auch sicherstellen, dass man klug ist und sich vorher intormieren. Ein hilfreicher Link: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch_(Sprache)
@@mho... you are a German but you have no idea about American Germans , the skyscall is right it’s called deitsch speakers , deutsche is something else .
Even though it was an emergency, them landing there made those kids day. They will never forget that day when they saw the coolest thing on earth. Maybe even inspired one or more of those kids to become pilots themselves. 👌
The freaky part is when the old baseball players emerged from the corn field, and then that whispering voice that said "If you build it they will land"...
I install the hydraulic system on MH-60R Seahawks for a living. I would have loved to have had a hand in helping these pilots. They are living heroes. Badass dudes for sure.
We had a family reunion in Mission Viejo in the summer of 1985. We all went to see "Back to Future". When we left the mall, there were two Marine Corps H-46 helos in the parking lot. Lots of security, and one blew a tubine with the sister ship giving assistance. What a memorable moment!
Nice video! 👍 Min 1:10, the other Apache helicopter that was circled over was not intended to provide direct help (fix the landed bird), probably he was providing security (air escort) and verifying coordinates where the damage bird landed, in order to facilitate the arrival of the latter UH-60. 😉
Boy, I would have run to the store and bought these guys some snacks, given them bottles of water, etc. I would have told them "It was an honor for you to have broken down in my backyard." A few years ago, I had the first experience of seeing a Blackhawk. I was at work and I heard a military rated helicopter engine (a lot more powerful than a typical helicopter sound). I looked up and there was a Blackhawk...followed by another flying by. Not too long after, more appeared overhead. And more and more. Dozens of them! I think they flew by overhead for nearly an hour. It was awesome.
I have a cousin who flys either a blackhawk or huey I forgot exactly which, but I was able to go to one of the bases he was stationed at and had a close up look of it as it was having maintenance done along with like 20 others
Coffee's on, muffins just out of the oven! ( During a recent nearby fire, those S-70C Firehawks' sounds dwarf the smaller medical helicopters from the nearby hospital.)
We've had a saying in Germany once: "You want to have your own F104 Starfighter? - Just buy yourself a field and wait!" This was because our Bundeswehr Starfighters had to suit a multi role Fighter-bomber spec, which made the aircraft quite unsafe. We also called it "Erdnagel", which means soil nail!
@@freethinker5039 Not once they shut down power- which they had to do as part of emergency procedures. Then the crew is down to their evasion radios to communicate. Second; lower altitude would block the LOS traffic; while the helicopter in the air could still relay.
If they where REALLY lucky they had a good lawyer looking for old Pennsylvania laws from 1777 like: "Seeds, apples and other goods that land in the garden on the owned property belong to the property owners the moment it touches the land". I am sure there is such a law and this family was just too slow to contact some sly lawyer, that Apache could have become their new family car to fly over to Walmart every Saturday evening with all that awesome night vision equipment... :D
What an honor! Man if of been out there taking orders for a meal, go get them some dinner, open my garage to any tools that could be helpful. I’d die for that “misfortune” 👍👍
The military works under the jurisdiction of the government, in all functional democracies and also in many totalitarian countries. It's the politicians of the government who tell the military what to do. The military's job is to figure out how to do it. Every year the government also needs to decide the budget for the armed forces. The military is like a giant government agency, essentially. The vast majority of countries also have a minister of defense (or equivalent, depending on how the offices of the executive branch are called). That person is basically doing nothing else but trying to look after the needs of the military in the government. It's impossible to forget it.
I was a kid living in Black Forest, Colorado, back in the 70s. Had regular flyovers of the forest by Phantom fighter jets right above the canopy of the forest from training. Used to go out and wait for them in our pasture and wave at the pilots as they came over. Got to be a routine,waving at them,and they would tip wings and wave back at me. Was a memory of a time I'll never forget,seeing those badass planes and the guys with balls enough to fly them.
I had to PL once (UH-60) and it actually turned out to be kind of fun. The family that owned the property brought us sandwiches, sodas, and slices of pear pie. We let their kids put on our helmets and ALSE vests so their mom could take pictures, and hung out. It was pretty cool.
That's a weird coincidence, I was just reading 'Snake Pilot' by Randy Zahn last night and the last paragraph I read before going to sleep described how he had to carry out an emergency landing of his AH-1 Cobra gunship helicopter due to a hydraulic failure, then this pops up on my You Tube feed first thing this morning - can Microsoft read my mind now? Spooky.
I'm thinking they do but its not public yet. Like you I've merely thought of something and later had something related in my feed. Not once but many times.
This is actually a very old model. It’s an original AH64A model which leaves me scratching my head because the US Army converted the last A model to a D model somewhere near 2013. Leaves me wondering if this was an Israeli, Greek, or another foreign military that still operates A model Apaches.
I love unexpected events like this (and obviously glad that no one was hurt and it was all OK), but a nice surprise for everyone in the neighbourhood nonetheless! I teach in a big school in the UK and one day a few years ago, at very short notice, (but at least pre-planned via telephone), we had two Army Air Corps Apache helicopters turn up and land on the cricket pitch! Huge excitement. Turns out, the crew's were on a cross country exercise and had a colleague living locally to our school who had been recovering from an injury he picked up in Afghanistan a few months earlier and they wanted to pay him a visit! Everyone was very happy.
Back in March 1973, I had an engine failure in an OH-58A Kiowa and ended up in someone's backyard - a yard surrounded by trees. In my case, we had a hard landing and the helicopter was unrepairable. That was not the only engine failure I had over my career, but thankfully, it was the only one I had in a single-engine helicopter.
How did they get the bird out again? Did they disassemble it and truck it out or sling load under a heavy lift chopper? Curious. I've seen them do both. I hauled a Jet Ranger off of a busy TN highway on a rollback wrecker couple years ago. THAT was one tedious and nerve wracking tow.
@@manaboutit1594 Trucked it out. Tore up their yard doing it, too, from what I understand. First touchdown autorotation I'd done in that helicopter, because they weren't letting us do autorotations to the ground because the main rotor blades were cutting off the tail booms. My particular accident was one of seven accidents in a week and the 18th ABN Corps Commander was incensed. Fortunately, the Collateral Board, which determined whether or not I should be made to pay for the aircraft, firmly said "no."
@@lawerenceseliger5385 Nope. I was in 35th Engr Group flight detachment at Ft. Bragg; D 4/7 Cav in ROK, and C 3/5 Cav at Ft. Lewis when I was on Active Duty. If 1/17Cav was at Bragg in '72 - '74, I might have flown one of their OH-58s once on a mission for a couple SF guys when there was no one available from the Cav, but that's as close as I got.
I was a scout in the army. We were in a hanger in Alaska and with the pilot of an Apache. Those people got way closer than we were allowed. And half of us had secret clearance.
I am jealous that I do not live in a place where such situations can happen ... A beautiful day for the people who live there - so different from all the rest of ordinary life.
@MrPoediggidy my thoughts exactly. Heck, it was back in 1982 when a US Army helicopter landed on one of the baseball diamonds behind our high school and I was lucky to sit in the cockpit with the helmet on that made the Gatlin gun point wherever the helmet faced. It was a Marine Corps Cobra. I'm not sure if they even have them anymore but they were amazing up close! The following year I joined the Marines as well heheh..
In David Attenborough voice: "Here we see a wild Apache Helicopter, wounded, unable to take off." "Its partner circles around worryingly as it awaits for the incoming rescue." "The scene had attracted curious Homo Sapiens in the locale to take a peek at the magnificent Apache Helicopter."
Worked for a company decades ago that made parts for many helicopters ( space shuttle and tons of other military stuff as well). Local news copter made an emergency landing in the parking lot. After the pilot inspected things, the failed part happened to be one of ours. Our engineers went out to look at it, and found that it was not installed correctly, which led to the failure. We had just finished up a batch of those same parts, and got one to the pilot, but neither he nor or engineers were allowed to install it ( FAA rules), so both certified mechanics and inspectors had to be driven in to first inspect the new part (end user inspection is mandated) and then have the mechanics install it. They installed it incorrectly again, (our engineers were watching, and somehow the mechanics had been trained incorrectly) and called the FAA to not allow the copter to leave. It was a real shit show for 2 days between our company and the FAA reps to get the installation instructions corrected! Guess that the military does things much more efficiently!
Mandated when rendering any public service..for several reasons, other units can find who is where, police flash, fire can find, ambulance crew can find the party, air assets dropping off maintenance crew can see which field from 10 miles away.. So there are legit reasons most folks don't think about
Best attack helicopter in the world! Lot of times I see above me this helicopters in London outskirts.. Always in 2 pairs. Such a beauty! And the sound! When you hear it you know it is not a civilian helicopter it is from the military!
This is how my great grandparents got to school, they had to build it in the morning and disassemble it at night. In Tuesday’s they had to practice touch n goes at school. On Sundays it was gods day and a no fly day. This meant they had to drink enough red bull to manually fly themselves. So grateful for technology ♥️
I was with C troop 1/10ACS out of Ft. Ord in 82. We had a AH1 Cobra do an emergency landing in IDAHO on a Farm. It caught fire and burned to the ground. Spent two weeks guarding the wreck till we got a team to scoop up the remains.
Never had one land in my yard, but we've got an Army aviation unit about 20 minutes north of us so we pretty regularly see Apaches & Blackhawks flying overhead. There's nothing quite like seeing a dozen Apaches flying over you... it's equal parts fear & awe.
Least it was in a back yard. I was an AF cop stationed in Cheyenne WY. I got stuck in a Huey out in the middle of nowhere Nebraska in a snow storm. Left there to guard it as well until it could be hauled back to base. The first time ever I seen my piss freeze before it hit the ground. :)
Several years ago I was outside and kept hearing this really loud "whooshing" sound. As I stepped out in the yard I saw a hot air balloon just barely skimming over my house. It made it over the house across the street and was able to land safely in a small field. Never had a helicopter though.
My parents built their home on 2 acres out of the 40 acre field on the edge of town, and we had some balloons land there since there was no crop in [after wheat harvest, but before they drilled sorghum] and they were fighting a losing battle with the winds that had kicked up. It was surreal as a little kid. If a military helicopter landed in my backyard, I'd wonder whether that Google search looking for the song "Invisible" by Anthrax made the NSA think I was looking for something evil. 😁
I grew up a dairy. One day when I was getting the cows up to milk , a hot air balloon came over really low and they hit the burners. Scared the hell out of cows lol
Great video, if it was my land he landed on, I would ask for a ride for one or all the children. In any helos that landed. Those, that child, children would never forget... Any who, those citizens will never forget the day they landed.
Way cool. I’m still fascinated by airplanes & helicopters. If this would’ve happened in my back yard I would’ve offered you to help in any way then step back, crack open a cold one and watch them work on the Apache. 😎🤙🏾🇺🇸
I love how the weapons officer was on the phone with tech support while looking in hydraulics bay. "Yes I turned it off and back on and it still will not pressurize."
Lmao I liked that bit too
"Yeah she's fucked, how much for the tow? WHAT!? bugger that I'll get 'em to fix it themselves! Gary, go grab a spanner!"
Sir, this is Rajesh, did you do a complete restart? Please shut down and restart.
back in the day, the crew knew how to work on the equipment, sadly Corporatism done away with that
@@MatthewHensley8304 I mean "back in the day" it was a few analog gauges and hydraulics and linkages. No computer telling that hydraulic pump exactly how much to pressurize to and which valves to open for all sort of reasons.
I work in IT.
I cannot tell you how much I laughed at this.
I like how "The other apache circled around unable to help" is almost something out of a animal documentary xD
Reminded me of a helo providing overwatch to observe if the enemy was nearby.
Crikey!
That's why nearly all military operations have at least two members. So one can report on another's behaviour. I doubt they stayed for longer than 30 minutes, and then they returned to base once sufficient information (status, location, etc.) was relayed to the ATC.
That was probably the talk of the town for six months.
I’ve read this quote in the voice of Sir David Attenborough in one of his documentaries 😅
Awe it’s so sad to see the mommy Apache circling her baby unable to help. I’m glad the baby Apache was ok after human intervention. Faith in humanity restored!
😂😂True that
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that
Papa UH60 came to help
@@danielroher3605that and paired with the music haha
They were probably laughing
Dads in the neighborhood have been waiting for this moment to monitor the military's ability to make a helicopter repair.
"I see you're using an allen wrench there. Yeah, that should work."
I can remember an incident as an aero scout in a OH-6 losing the tail blade assembly after a large piece of Soundproofing became dislodged, was ripped out the open door and it cleaned the assembly off the gearbox. We did a running landing into family’s back yard. The wife was hanging laundry with their two youngen’s on their swing set, Dad changing the oil in their car......did a textbook landing, shut down and asked if we could use their phone. They were so excited regarding the situation, made us lunch while waiting for a replacement tail rotor assembly by a Huey to get there. I was the units prop and rotor tech and was flying with a future test pilot. I changed everything out, balanced it and we did a quick test flight then departed. I sent the family a nice card with dinner reservations to thank them for their hospitality.
Bad but then got good. I'm not a pilot but I know how important the tail rotor is. I was stationed in Vietnam from 68-69 and one day I was walking to the mess hall and a Huey flew overhead and I noticed the tail rotor came off. It then tried to land in an adjoining field but crashed and exploded. I ran to the tall fence nearby and climbed up but the concertina wire stopped me. I hung on and watched a couple of Army guys come out of their radio shack right next to it, trying to get the crew out of the fire. They got them out but a few didn't make it. My barracks was directly across the street from Hotel 3, the large helipad where almost every type of helo landed and launched. Glad you were able to do what you did. Cheers, Bob Powell, CMSgt, USAF(Ret)
@@rvnmedic1968 that's why they say a landing you can walk away from is a good landing
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This happened to me in the 1990's. We were flying an OH-58C and had to make an emergency landing in a German elementary schoolyard as there was no other open area. Classes let out and we became instant celebrities with about 200 kids and let every one of them sit in the cockpit for a minute. International relations, lol. The contact team came out, fixed the bird and we were home for dinner.
wow nice
Landing in the back yard is every boy's dream! As a FF in my city we got a call from our dispatch of a military helicopter making an emergency landing next to one of our highways. We got there in time to see it land. The crew told us they had gotten a "check engine light" that meant "set it down now, where ever you are-now" - that's what the pilot told us, lol. We stood by until a unmarked van and pickup arrived to repair the problem and they took off a couple of hours later. The crew were very cool, we all set around and joked about what people may have thought. Had a few people pull up and ask. I enjoyed the time with the crew, they were from different parts of the country and were only in town for a few days. They were having an upgrade done to their helicopter and they had some kind of meeting or class to attend as well. Our town has The Redstone Arsenal as well as several military helicopter contractor businesses. It was a black UH-60. I've never seen a black one. I've heard the stories of the conspiracies and the black military helicopters. The crew told us the paint shop was probably out of dark green and sand colors. We thought "Yeah, right." But we had a good laugh and a good time. Since then I have had another UH-60 helicopter landing due to "mechanical issues" with almost the same results. But the 2nd was the normal color, lol. I really respect these young guys and what they contribute and sacrifice.
@@Thunderbyrd. perhaps the specific type of UH60 you mentioned is operated by the 160th SOAR nightstalkers
@@Thunderbyrd. not in Iraq or Afghanistan
Sadly it wasnt my school.
Lived in west central Louisiana, not far from peason ridge. Ft Polk always doing training and in the summer, my 38 acres made good emergency LZ for birds. One year, had UH 60 land, crew ask what would I charge to run them to local store for ice and cokes. Became regular event every other day. Great bunch of guys.
Great story!!!
Absolutely nothing.......I'll take them anywhere they want to go for as long as they want. My brothers get whatever they need.
Gas money is nice if it as bit far, but other than that...
I hope you wont get invaded soon
Get in the truck it is my pleasure you fought for our freedom I would be happy to take you
I like the way you reversed the footage of the of the H-60. Cleaver. I remember a time, yeeears ago in Oregon, when an Air Force rescue helicopter made an emergency landing in a farmer's mint field. The crew, thinking the farmer would be pissed out of his mind seeing his crop destroyed, seeing the farmer coming out with a big smile on his face and invited the crew in for coffee while they waited for maintenance to arrive. The crew asked the farmer why he wasn't mad. The farmer replied: "Because I know Uncle Sam just bought my entire crop." True story.
Thanks. I didn't get a shot of the Blackhawk landing, but I wished I had - all the guys in the next shot got out. I did get it leaving though!
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 😁
I was wondering why it landed in reverse. Very clever way to add a missing shot; it tricked my mind.
yah I thought that was an awfully fast decent rate and best touchdown timing ever recorded lol
Ala Benny Hill. 🤣
Any landing you walk away from is a good landing. Any landing where the aircraft can be used again is a GREAT landing.
I know people are just joking when they laugh at the weapons officer on the phone with the chopper support, making Microsoft reboot jokes. Honestly, I'd do the same: call the base and ask to talk to the mechanics. It's no different from calling your car dealer for support when something craps out on you and your vehicle is stuck in the middle of nowhere.
Chuck Yeager.
My first assignment was as an aeroscout platoon leader in West Germany during the cold war. We would fly the fenced border from one end of our sector to the other.
About midway, there was a bratwurst stand for the German tourists. We'd land there to grab a bite. All the people in line for the bratwursts would run over to see the helicopter so the copilot would stay and entertain them while the pilot would stroll up to the brat stand and buy the food. Worked every time.
When dude landed and saw a German flag on their house he must’ve had a “wait, where am I?” moment for just a second lol.
Hows this filmed in PA? Why is there a german flag mounted on the flag pole it should be american?
I saw that flag too 😂
@@1998gst4611 German ancestry? German immigrants?
this flag seems modified, it has some symbol in the centre , original flag does not
@@maciejguzek3442 for sure. Regardless, it’s not an American flag lol
Grew up on a ranch near Ft. Hood Texas, when I was 14, a CH-47 set down on the field near our house and barn. We gave them the address and directions from Grey Army Airfield so the maintenance guys could easily find it. We had a family BBQ going and the crew and maintenance guys joined. Became a once a month thing, a helicopter or two landing, BBQ loaded up in coolers to keep it hot and the other stuff cool, the crews chilling with us. We slaughtered our own cattle and pigs and the unit pitched in, so more than enough beef and pork to go around.
It was the main reason I joined the Army and went AVN, well, that and I was advised on the best MOS for me. Few qualified for my MOS, I was quickly made an E-5 because my slot was supposed to be an O-3. I only missed one question on my ASVAB, blew the doors off. It was a rush to be sitting in an OH-58D on a maintenance check flight with a Blackhawk next to us doing the BBQ run to my home when I inevitably got stationed back at Ft. Hood. They knew who I was before I got to that duty station, it was like coming home before getting home.. Weird and awesome.
Wow that's awesome! Thanks for sharing :)
Thank you for your service.
Imagine breaking into some random ranch house to rob it and such when suddenly two military helicopters full of dudes land next to it....
Lucky bastard
Haha
Keep em' airborne dude!!!
Sir, this is probably The best goddam comment ever.
When I was a kid living in the country of Kentucky I lived along the flight path of Fort Campbell. I'd wave at the C-130s flying tree top and the whole formation would tip their wings at me. As a kid that was the coolest thing ever.
C-130s come by my house all the time, and i don't live in America, but it's still cool to see them
@@ODST_Jar You live in Baghdad?
@@lrballistics wow 🙄
even for grown up like me, that still best thing i wish to happen for me ^_^
My parent lived in Hanoi and in 1972 they waved at the American. Needless to say The American greet them back with heavy ordnance lol. Glad they made it out alive
And the German Flag in the Background 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻Greetings from Germany
That's a 1930s Weimar flag flying in rural Pennsylvania. Either these guys are Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch speakers, or that flag's there to represent something... else.
@@skyscall dude IF you try to do german, atleast write our countrys name right! *Deutsch(land)*
@@mho... I was referring to Pennsilfaanisch-Deitsch, a local variety of German spoken in the United States and Canada which has origins from the Pfalz (or _Palz_ as speakers call it).
@@mho... Bevor man klugscheißt, sollte man auch sicherstellen, dass man klug ist und sich vorher intormieren. Ein hilfreicher Link: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch_(Sprache)
@@mho... you are a German but you have no idea about American Germans , the skyscall is right it’s called deitsch speakers , deutsche is something else .
I love the American military. Hello from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪. Thank you for keeping the free world free.
Even though it was an emergency, them landing there made those kids day. They will never forget that day when they saw the coolest thing on earth. Maybe even inspired one or more of those kids to become pilots themselves. 👌
So much things cooler than an apache
@@lordemarsh6804 YOU TAKE THAT BACK
@@chillicothewarrior a nimitz class carrier is more cooler
@@chillicothewarrior an F-35 is more cooler
An A-10 Thunderbolt Warthog is cooler than all of those
The freaky part is when the old baseball players emerged from the corn field, and then that whispering voice that said "If you build it they will land"...
What are you talking about?
@@petersyme7083 Movie reference... Field of Dreams. Worth watching!
@@petersyme7083 He really went back far for that reference. Chris, You are a dinosaure.
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Lol!
Love seeing the locals especially the kids and their parents converging around the bird 🐦
Me, I would have been saying, "Finder's keepers, looser weepers" :)
@@trvman1 lol
I mean them kids could have turned wrenches too lol
I install the hydraulic system on MH-60R Seahawks for a living. I would have loved to have had a hand in helping these pilots. They are living heroes. Badass dudes for sure.
We had a family reunion in Mission Viejo in the summer of 1985. We all went to see "Back to Future". When we left the mall, there were two Marine Corps H-46 helos in the parking lot. Lots of security, and one blew a tubine with the sister ship giving assistance. What a memorable moment!
Nice video! 👍
Min 1:10, the other Apache helicopter that was circled over was not intended to provide direct help (fix the landed bird), probably he was providing security (air escort) and verifying coordinates where the damage bird landed, in order to facilitate the arrival of the latter UH-60. 😉
Thanks for all men and women that serves this country.
Kids had the best day ever. Now they will grow up wanting to be in the military
Boy, I would have run to the store and bought these guys some snacks, given them bottles of water, etc. I would have told them "It was an honor for you to have broken down in my backyard."
A few years ago, I had the first experience of seeing a Blackhawk. I was at work and I heard a military rated helicopter engine (a lot more powerful than a typical helicopter sound). I looked up and there was a Blackhawk...followed by another flying by. Not too long after, more appeared overhead. And more and more. Dozens of them! I think they flew by overhead for nearly an hour. It was awesome.
I would be billing the govt for the land rental. 🤣
I have a cousin who flys either a blackhawk or huey I forgot exactly which, but I was able to go to one of the bases he was stationed at and had a close up look of it as it was having maintenance done along with like 20 others
Coffee's on, muffins just out of the oven! ( During a recent nearby fire, those S-70C Firehawks' sounds dwarf the smaller medical helicopters from the nearby hospital.)
As a bootlicker should
Okay, I said "Blackhawk" more than once in my original post. That was moronic! I meant "APACHE"! It must have been late when I posted that...
We've had a saying in Germany once: "You want to have your own F104 Starfighter? - Just buy yourself a field and wait!"
This was because our Bundeswehr Starfighters had to suit a multi role Fighter-bomber spec, which made the aircraft quite unsafe. We also called it "Erdnagel", which means soil nail!
We called them widow makers
The other nicknames for the F-104 were the 'Widow-maker' and the 'Flying Coffin'.
The lawn dart, lol.
Yep. The lawn dart is the name my Father, and I call them. There are quite a few for sale right now. Including several German F-104's
There was an album called Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters about the Starfighter give it a listen ...
so good to see the humans helping those beautiful wild apaches
Those kid are lucky to witness a rare event in a life. I hope one of them become pilot.
My son in law just became a army helicopter pilot training in Alabama.👍
@@keithqueen3554 congrats to him!
@@keithqueen3554 What stage of flight school is he at right now?
@@bloodndestroy he's finished already.👍
If an Apache landed in my backyard, it would have been AWESOME!! One of the most badass aircraft in our military!!
The circling apache was helping alot: relaying radio traffic back to their unit.
And the Blackhawk no doubt.
The one on the ground could still communicate with HQ
@@freethinker5039 Not once they shut down power- which they had to do as part of emergency procedures.
Then the crew is down to their evasion radios to communicate.
Second; lower altitude would block the LOS traffic; while the helicopter in the air could still relay.
A lot
@@freethinker5039 Not if the problem it with it is the APU. No radios then.
Imagine being lucky enough too have an apache helicopter land in your backyard.
Imagine being lucky enough to have a house & backyard!
If they where REALLY lucky they had a good lawyer looking for old Pennsylvania laws from 1777 like: "Seeds, apples and other goods that land in the garden on the owned property belong to the property owners the moment it touches the land". I am sure there is such a law and this family was just too slow to contact some sly lawyer, that Apache could have become their new family car to fly over to Walmart every Saturday evening with all that awesome night vision equipment... :D
or unlucky enough depending where you are in the world
The circling Apache's aren't there for moral support, they're there to ensure the security of the Helicopter and it's crew.
So thankful they had a safe and uneventful landing. Love and appreciate our military.
What an honor! Man if of been out there taking orders for a meal, go get them some dinner, open my garage to any tools that could be helpful. I’d die for that “misfortune” 👍👍
I was just about going to say the same! WHATEVER YOU GUYS NEED, YA GOT IT!
Ahaaaaa...
For real 👌
Exactly!
Just a second let me grab my vice grips any one need a beer
Its pretty awesome what our military can do for its country.
I hope our govt never forgets that.
Agreed. And our govt should never squander their service and loyalty unless absolutely necessary.
The military works under the jurisdiction of the government, in all functional democracies and also in many totalitarian countries. It's the politicians of the government who tell the military what to do. The military's job is to figure out how to do it. Every year the government also needs to decide the budget for the armed forces. The military is like a giant government agency, essentially. The vast majority of countries also have a minister of defense (or equivalent, depending on how the offices of the executive branch are called). That person is basically doing nothing else but trying to look after the needs of the military in the government.
It's impossible to forget it.
I was a kid living in Black Forest, Colorado, back in the 70s.
Had regular flyovers of the forest by Phantom fighter jets right above the canopy of the forest from training.
Used to go out and wait for them in our pasture and wave at the pilots as they came over.
Got to be a routine,waving at them,and they would tip wings and wave back at me.
Was a memory of a time I'll never forget,seeing those badass planes and the guys with balls enough to fly them.
I love it when military aircrafts make emergency landing in civilian places. It's a free military show.
I had to PL once (UH-60) and it actually turned out to be kind of fun. The family that owned the property brought us sandwiches, sodas, and slices of pear pie. We let their kids put on our helmets and ALSE vests so their mom could take pictures, and hung out. It was pretty cool.
That's a weird coincidence, I was just reading 'Snake Pilot' by Randy Zahn last night and the last paragraph I read before going to sleep described how he had to carry out an emergency landing of his AH-1 Cobra gunship helicopter due to a hydraulic failure, then this pops up on my You Tube feed first thing this morning - can Microsoft read my mind now? Spooky.
Not literally yet but they use AI and algorithms
I'm thinking they do but its not public yet. Like you I've merely thought of something and later had something related in my feed. Not once but many times.
Thank you Father for landing our soldiers safely. Thank you to the crew for handling the emergency as they’ve been trained to do.
So cool! Glad the crew wasn't injured!!! Kids had a blast I bet.
the design of this helicopter is very beautiful
Expensive toy
This is actually a very old model. It’s an original AH64A model which leaves me scratching my head because the US Army converted the last A model to a D model somewhere near 2013. Leaves me wondering if this was an Israeli, Greek, or another foreign military that still operates A model Apaches.
@@secretsquirrel572 United States Army is written on the side and Lower Heidelberg Township is in Pennsylvania.
@@sideboob6851 Ssssh! You're *ruining* the conspiracy theory! :D
That's enough to inspire a young kid into a career with the air force i bet 😊
Best part was the other Apache mourning it's fallen brother. So sad that the other Apache was unable to help.
Thank God for the cornfield and for the folks that own it... it was an exciting time!
Lunch or dinner would have been on me if they landed around in my backyard. God bless our service members!
I’m glad the pilots were able to land safely and no one was injured.
I reside in Newmanstown Pa....My son and I remember seeing the helicopters that day, but had no idea that they landed so close to our home.
Love, love, LOVE our Military!! 🇺🇸❣️🇺🇸
I love unexpected events like this (and obviously glad that no one was hurt and it was all OK), but a nice surprise for everyone in the neighbourhood nonetheless! I teach in a big school in the UK and one day a few years ago, at very short notice, (but at least pre-planned via telephone), we had two Army Air Corps Apache helicopters turn up and land on the cricket pitch! Huge excitement. Turns out, the crew's were on a cross country exercise and had a colleague living locally to our school who had been recovering from an injury he picked up in Afghanistan a few months earlier and they wanted to pay him a visit! Everyone was very happy.
Back in March 1973, I had an engine failure in an OH-58A Kiowa and ended up in someone's backyard - a yard surrounded by trees. In my case, we had a hard landing and the helicopter was unrepairable. That was not the only engine failure I had over my career, but thankfully, it was the only one I had in a single-engine helicopter.
How did they get the bird out again?
Did they disassemble it and truck it out or sling load under a heavy lift chopper?
Curious. I've seen them do both.
I hauled a Jet Ranger off of a busy TN highway on a rollback wrecker couple years ago.
THAT was one tedious and nerve wracking tow.
@@manaboutit1594 Trucked it out. Tore up their yard doing it, too, from what I understand. First touchdown autorotation I'd done in that helicopter, because they weren't letting us do autorotations to the ground because the main rotor blades were cutting off the tail booms. My particular accident was one of seven accidents in a week and the 18th ABN Corps Commander was incensed. Fortunately, the Collateral Board, which determined whether or not I should be made to pay for the aircraft, firmly said "no."
@@waynemorgan8727 your name sounds familiar. Were you in B trp 1 /17 cav.
@@lawerenceseliger5385 Nope. I was in 35th Engr Group flight detachment at Ft. Bragg; D 4/7 Cav in ROK, and C 3/5 Cav at Ft. Lewis when I was on Active Duty. If 1/17Cav was at Bragg in '72 - '74, I might have flown one of their OH-58s once on a mission for a couple SF guys when there was no one available from the Cav, but that's as close as I got.
@@waynemorgan8727 that sounds like a hell of a story
I was a scout in the army. We were in a hanger in Alaska and with the pilot of an Apache. Those people got way closer than we were allowed. And half of us had secret clearance.
Thats a ridiculously beautiful helicopter. Looks futuristic.
0:17 I heard the pilot was only a Lieutenant, so their problems weren't Major until they returned to base.
NICE!
The pilot-in-command could have been a lieutenant but was most likely a warrant officer.
I am jealous that I do not live in a place where such situations can happen ...
A beautiful day for the people who live there - so different from all the rest of ordinary life.
Glad everyone was ok - What a blessing for your kids!
That's goldim a RAF kid , we had the Chinook just dropping in on a summers day,,,,God bless our service men and women
Those kids will NEVER be the same!!
That event most likely had the local recruitment office busy! Inspired a few young men and women to answer the call!!! 🤘🏼🇺🇸
@MrPoediggidy my thoughts exactly. Heck, it was back in 1982 when a US Army helicopter landed on one of the baseball diamonds behind our high school and I was lucky to sit in the cockpit with the helmet on that made the Gatlin gun point wherever the helmet faced. It was a Marine Corps Cobra. I'm not sure if they even have them anymore but they were amazing up close!
The following year I joined the Marines as well heheh..
0:51 - They landed in German territory. I hope the men are okay.
I was wondering if I was the only one seeing German flag.
@@filsed Flying from a neighbor's deck, it looks like. In spite of the German-sounding name, Lower Heidelberg Twsp is in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
This is an event that really happens once in a lifetime.
I'm sure those folks will remember that day forever 😀
Excellent video! Thank you for sharing.
That Blackhawk landing was impressive!
In David Attenborough voice:
"Here we see a wild Apache Helicopter, wounded, unable to take off."
"Its partner circles around worryingly as it awaits for the incoming rescue."
"The scene had attracted curious Homo Sapiens in the locale to take a peek at the magnificent Apache Helicopter."
I swear I hear his voice in my head saying this. lol
Nice video. Back in the very early 70's, a couple Huey's we're forced to land in the corn field next to our house I'm a blizzard.
Wow.....
My son fixes these aircraft for a living ...... awesome machines!
You have got to love those fly boys! Well done chaps! 🇬🇧
Nice to see the German Flag waving there. "Heidelberg" is the most beautiful city here in Germany!
Lucky neighbors had to take a selfie with $60m apache its insane😊
What a treat for everyone! They'll never forget that day!
Worked for a company decades ago that made parts for many helicopters ( space shuttle and tons of other military stuff as well). Local news copter made an emergency landing in the parking lot. After the pilot inspected things, the failed part happened to be one of ours. Our engineers went out to look at it, and found that it was not installed correctly, which led to the failure. We had just finished up a batch of those same parts, and got one to the pilot, but neither he nor or engineers were allowed to install it ( FAA rules), so both certified mechanics and inspectors had to be driven in to first inspect the new part (end user inspection is mandated) and then have the mechanics install it. They installed it incorrectly again, (our engineers were watching, and somehow the mechanics had been trained incorrectly) and called the FAA to not allow the copter to leave. It was a real shit show for 2 days between our company and the FAA reps to get the installation instructions corrected!
Guess that the military does things much more efficiently!
I'm jealous of those kids 😍, they had a great back yard and get to see a real helicopter. Damn my childhood!!
1:28 A textbook perfect landing with pinpoint accuracy. Nice.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
It was played backwards....to make It look good.
@@XqeDiosxqe Aaahhh....1980s cgi. It still worked.
Lol love how the police need to turn on their lights. Like that will help resolve the issue.
Cheers the party
Mandated when rendering any public service..for several reasons, other units can find who is where, police flash, fire can find, ambulance crew can find the party, air assets dropping off maintenance crew can see which field from 10 miles away..
So there are legit reasons most folks don't think about
@@francisconti9085 so I guess the police were more than likely bring in expert aircraft support and or parts. Ok make sense.
This made me cry...poor chopper...hope he made it home ok...
Best attack helicopter in the world! Lot of times I see above me this helicopters in London outskirts.. Always in 2 pairs. Such a beauty! And the sound! When you hear it you know it is not a civilian helicopter it is from the military!
Flight line Maintenance to the rescue....as always - Former F-16 Avionics
This is how my great grandparents got to school, they had to build it in the morning and disassemble it at night. In Tuesday’s they had to practice touch n goes at school. On Sundays it was gods day and a no fly day. This meant they had to drink enough red bull to manually fly themselves. So grateful for technology ♥️
Holy crap! This is literally like the NCIS episode “Vanished” where a combat helicopter lands in a cornfield.
I was with C troop 1/10ACS out of Ft. Ord in 82. We had a AH1 Cobra do an emergency landing in IDAHO on a Farm. It caught fire and burned to the ground. Spent two weeks guarding the wreck till we got a team to scoop up the remains.
Love it. The German flag flying in the background.
I would love that to happen here. It would be immediately surrounded by loads of wee guys saying "please mister, can I fire one of them"? 😂
sounded like a nature show in the last part "for nearly 10 hours, the apache was set free in the dark"
Never had one land in my yard, but we've got an Army aviation unit about 20 minutes north of us so we pretty regularly see Apaches & Blackhawks flying overhead. There's nothing quite like seeing a dozen Apaches flying over you... it's equal parts fear & awe.
Kid: Mom, can we keep it?
Mom: Ask your dad
Kid: Da-
Dad: I'M ALREADY ASKING
Why did you show a blackhawk taking off in reverse? Missed it landing so this made the story look better
That Was Really Cool! In The Early '70's, A Huey & A Huey Cobra Landed At My High School For The R.O.T.C. Battalion. Thank You.
Least it was in a back yard. I was an AF cop stationed in Cheyenne WY. I got stuck in a Huey out in the middle of nowhere Nebraska in a snow storm. Left there to guard it as well until it could be hauled back to base. The first time ever I seen my piss freeze before it hit the ground. :)
Crazy scene!
Hello, Checkmark.....
Awesome! All those military ppl are just great.
Nice that they were able to land.
That Blackhawk landing was so smooth
Several years ago I was outside and kept hearing this really loud "whooshing" sound. As I stepped out in the yard I saw a hot air balloon just barely skimming over my house. It made it over the house across the street and was able to land safely in a small field. Never had a helicopter though.
My parents built their home on 2 acres out of the 40 acre field on the edge of town, and we had some balloons land there since there was no crop in [after wheat harvest, but before they drilled sorghum] and they were fighting a losing battle with the winds that had kicked up. It was surreal as a little kid. If a military helicopter landed in my backyard, I'd wonder whether that Google search looking for the song "Invisible" by Anthrax made the NSA think I was looking for something evil. 😁
I grew up a dairy. One day when I was getting the cows up to milk , a hot air balloon came over really low and they hit the burners. Scared the hell out of cows lol
Great video, if it was my land he landed on, I would ask for a ride for one or all the children. In any helos that landed. Those, that child, children would never forget... Any who, those citizens will never forget the day they landed.
i'll bet that crew and the neighborhood had a great picnic!
Wonderful! But the most heart warming thing here are the comments!
Imagine having a garden big enough for a helicopter to land in 😆
and a german flag waving
awesome i love seeing these apaches
Imagine trying to put that on a flatbed lol and your driving home from work and see an Apache on a flatbed go u on a local road lol
I guess there’s just something special about cornfields. If you plant it they will land…🚁
Lol.
Way cool. I’m still fascinated by airplanes & helicopters.
If this would’ve happened in my back yard I would’ve offered you to help in any way then step back, crack open a cold one and watch them work on the Apache. 😎🤙🏾🇺🇸
That would be 1 of the coolest things ever if an apache landed in my back yard