5/31/10 -- All Hands/Helicopter Incident/Box 867

[rdm258]

Location: Clove Rd/Victory Blvd -- Clove Lakes Park
Div 8 using All Hands for a reported Military Helicopter at a air show hit a tree, making a hard landing. 9 Civilians Injured. Multi Agencies o/s.  --- NO Reported Damage to the Craft.
Time: 0930 hrs
Some of the units that were on this box. Eng160,155,153,157/L78 FAST,SQ1,R5,Batt 22,21
http://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2010/05/31/marine-helicopter-raids-in-new-york-parks

 

[guitarman314]

  It was a tree that some branches torn apart by the downdraft of a Marine Osprey(moveable twin rotor) aircraft.

 

[mack]

http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/119548/spectators-injured-during-military-show-on-staten-island

http://wallpaper.sk/13/3017.kecso.net.jpg

 

[mercurygrandmarquis1]

i went to this event last year it was pretty entertaining. FDNY had a big presence in the show last year (i was even in engine 164s foam carrier). but this proves may was an interesting month for the forgotton borough

 

[NYBravest82]

While I get that this is(probably going to be "was") a tradition for Clove Lakes, i'm kinda wondering why they haven't done it in Miller Field all these years. It was in fact an old airfield, and there is a ton of open space, plenty for keeping people safe while putting on a good show.

 

[guitarman314]

  I have attended a few of these since my son was deployed to Iraq in 2002 and FDNY has always had an engine, truck & foam unit on hand plus a couple of EMS buses. This time they were needed