Australia Banned S-70A Black Hawk

Australia has banned helicopter flights S-70A Black Hawk. This is the result of problems with the drive during the flight in Papua New Guinea.

Yesterday there was a failure of the Australian Black Hawk helicopter involved in the preparations for the celebration of Anzac Day in Papua New Guinea, the anniversary of the landing, Australian and New Zealand soldiers at Gallipoli during the First World War. During a training flight, there were problems with the drive. Helicopter with four-man crew and four passengers had crash-landed at the airport at Kokoda. No one, nothing happened.

Australian Army Command decided to suspend flights all your Black Hawks. He has them now 34 in the S-70A-9, produced by Hawker de Havilland Australia under license from Sikorsky. 3 of them are based in East Timor.

More Australian Black Hawks have been suspended this year for the second time. Previously, in January, the detection of cracks in pins.