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Posted: 9/22/2023 11:51:32 AM EST

https://www.wafb.com/2023/09/22/officials-remove-helicopter-stuck-underneath-overpass-all-lanes-back-open/

Posted: 9/22/2023 11:52:29 AM EST

[#1]

Damn.

Posted: 9/22/2023 11:52:33 AM EST

[#2]

Yikes

Posted: 9/22/2023 11:53:01 AM EST

[#3]

Thats going to be expensive

Posted: 9/22/2023 11:53:23 AM EST

[#4]

Nobody brought a fucking tape measure?

Don't people plan shit anymore?

Posted: 9/22/2023 11:53:33 AM EST

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Posted: 9/22/2023 11:53:42 AM EST

[#6]

Was that a Blackhawk?

Posted: 9/22/2023 11:53:43 AM EST

[#7]

Expensive oops

Posted: 9/22/2023 11:54:01 AM EST

[#8]

$Cha-ching!

Posted: 9/22/2023 11:54:16 AM EST

[#9]

Somebody's insurance is panicking while they figure out how to deny this claim.

Posted: 9/22/2023 11:54:26 AM EST

[#10]

Well there's the problem right there

Posted: 9/22/2023 11:54:29 AM EST

[#11]

Dumbass driver and I’m driver so I can say that. This is what happens when you don’t plan your route.

Posted: 9/22/2023 11:54:58 AM EST

[#12]

How can people really be this dumb?

Posted: 9/22/2023 11:55:02 AM EST

[#13]

Uh, they couldn't FLY the helo to the destination??

Posted: 9/22/2023 11:55:36 AM EST

[#14]

Its leaking... ALOT.

Atleast they wrapped it before shipping!

Posted: 9/22/2023 11:55:46 AM EST

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No.

If I had to guess it looks like something in the Bell 222 family.

Posted: 9/22/2023 11:56:19 AM EST

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Posted: 9/22/2023 11:57:16 AM EST

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Looks like a CH-53 Super or Sea Stallion

ETA: Wrong, does look like a Bell.

Posted: 9/22/2023 11:57:19 AM EST

[#18]

Not Marine One

Posted: 9/22/2023 11:57:22 AM EST

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Looks like a Sikorsky S-92

Posted: 9/22/2023 11:57:49 AM EST

[#20]

All that and a hazmat clean up too.

Time to look for another job.
Even if he's O/O he's never going to get insurance to keep hauling.

Posted: 9/22/2023 11:59:05 AM EST

[#21]

Pretty sure that is airwolf.

At least it's just the cheap spinny thing on top and not something critical.

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:00:32 PM EST

[#22]

Damn, that's a low bridge.

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:00:34 PM EST

[#23]

looks like a Sikorsky S-92

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:00:35 PM EST

[#24]

My uncle is a chopper tech and former sailor
The words that spewed out of him when I sent this to him were truly something to behold lol

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:02:22 PM EST

[#25]

Someone is losing their job today.

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Posted: 9/22/2023 12:04:20 PM EST

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Yep.

That fin on the it's back is the giveaway.

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:04:52 PM EST

[#27]

Police confirmed the load was too tall.

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Thankfully the investigators were able to solve the mystery.

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:05:13 PM EST

[#28]

Seems like the kind of load that should have a pilot car ahead of it to make sure these things fit.

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:05:36 PM EST

[#29]

Done fucked that up

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:06:16 PM EST

[#30]

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Looks like a Sikorsky S-92

That's my guess. I've spent a lot of time in them, usually trying to sleep.

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:06:37 PM EST

[#31]

Was that chopper flyable when it was put on the truck? If I was a betting kinda guy I would bet on it never flying again.

Wikipedia says an s92 costs $32 million.

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:07:57 PM EST

[#32]

That trucker will always have bragging rights when the “most expensive thing you’ve destroyed” topic is brought up.

That picture is a marvelous snapshot of our entire society at present.

-Think of all the meticulous attention to detail, that went into building that thing. Destroyed in seconds, by a single thoughtless idiot.

And most people will say “oh, no problem, that’s why we have insurance”.

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:08:44 PM EST

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I wonder, think it was the poor driver who didn't bother to pay attention to height or the failure of a spotter vehicle running ahead? These two things seem to be fairly simple steps to prevent such but my guess is the freight company charged to move this operated with "as cheap as possible" as a mindset. The cheapest driver, the lack of a spotting crew, etc, etc.

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:08:51 PM EST

[#34]

That never happens to me when I play Tiger-Heli.

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:08:57 PM EST

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Thats where I am at

It does take a little bit of common sense to drive a big rig and if he had his CDL, he must have some cognitive ability, how can you not know the height of your load and the height of the bridges you need to pass under.

Does something like that automatically make you lose you CDL?

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:09:58 PM EST

[#36]

S-92 most likely for offshore oilfield transport. Maybe PHI?

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:11:47 PM EST

[#37]

Stringfellow Hawke is going to be pissed when he finds out.

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:13:38 PM EST

[#38]

"We'll just put an OVERSIZE placard on it, and that'll take care of it."

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:13:58 PM EST

[#39]

"NOT IN?"

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:15:47 PM EST

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That picture is a marvelous snapshot of our entire society at present.

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Not to mention the criminal aspects that are seldom appropriately addressed.

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:15:56 PM EST

[#41]

someone removed the sign

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:17:34 PM EST

[#42]

Wow... some drivers are idiots.

There are apps that let you map our a route so this doesn't happen.

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:20:18 PM EST

[#43]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/SWR2RxSt43mAAt6V7
30°27'17.9"N 90°57'23.4"W

Looking at the streetview of that bridge, if you're coming from the opposite direction, there's a sign on the bridge that says "clearance 15'-0", but in the direction the truck was traveling, there's no sign. There IS a spot where the paint is different because there used to be a sign there. Whoops.

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:20:44 PM EST

[#44]

Attached File

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:21:34 PM EST

[#45]

Let me see the driver of the escort vehicle please

Posted: 9/22/2023 12:21:39 PM EST

[#46]

Same thing happened in hubby's flight dept. They were purchasing a new Eurocopter in Tx. They were taking it to completion and went under an overpass that was too low. Destroyed it. Thankfully the flight dept. hadn't signed any paperwork or taken possession in any way.

Expensive fuck up.

ETA can't read or type.