Approved For Release 2003/09/24 FA G3 IER fo ef000800120007-s #14; #OL: #14: #01: We're now ready for debrief. Okay, uh, before I forget it I'll just say that, uh, what I saw happening to the helicopter is this, uh, I had an impression of, uh, somewhere up near the main head of the rotor assembly I had this white metal plate. This picture, this.mental of a metal plate with, uh, four bolts running through it. .And.they seemed to be li-.well, I don't know what I mean by that, but they run through like holes that are.lined. And, uh, the metal looks like a, uh, almost like a,.uh, aluminum. But I.have.this piece of plate with the four very heavy bolts, uh, just coming to pieces, you know, just ripping to pieces. And the rotor is, uh, like breaking backwards. And.the, uh, violent, there's a vi- like. a violent shaking for about 2 seconds and this bird rolls over. Like the tail rotor kicks around to the left and, you know, brings the whole tail around with it. As the bird just does a hard roll over to the right, goes right in through the trees. I mean it's just all really quick. Very violent manuever, you know. Page 1 is a picture of a....the area as I perceived it. The red dotted line is, uh, the state border. .I don't know if that's the way it goes or not, but I perceive it to be that way. .The dotted line is the flight path from the departure point. 260 degrees where it changed to 200 is a normal vec- tor changing paint.. I mean it's like a, you know, whole lot of flight paths converged there. Instead of changing to the 270, which would have been the normal flight change, 'cause of bad weather hanging over the northern section of these mountains, this mountain range, they swung left to come south to pick up, uh, more visible, uh, more visible Flight, uh- , Reference. -reference points. Like this railroad tracks. I feel like they were comin! down for these railroad tracks. And, uh, they were about 12-15 flying time into this more southernly vector of 200 degrees when. they had the problem with the rotor and just rolled straight over into the trees. Uh, the town that I labeled here is about 45 degree angle from the crash site to the nearest section of coastline is around 115 miles distance. The, uh, page 2 is kind of a view of what you're looking at Flying down the route they would have flown at 220 degree heading. Coming straight out of this valley. Uh, the only thing of notable interest that you can see is a long string of like these, these big 50 KVA power line type things. I don't know if they're 50 KVA. They could be 250 KVA, I don't know, but they're big. And they kinda roll over the top of the.farthermost hill right out in front, going kind of, uh, southwest to the direction that you're travelling. And, Approved For Release £2} 2903p EMP 00728R000800120001-3
Approved For Release oosigalas (CMERCESE Po7ssR000600120001-3 #O1: #14; #01: #14; #01: #14; #01: #14: #01: #14: #01: #14: uh, the impact area,.in order to see it you're gonna have to be flying in a 220 heading, very low ta the ground and looking for the tree damage. 'Cause I mean, the angle they went in, the slope of the hill and everything, it was . almost a clean entry into the trees, you know, one of those, They didn't break up too many trees goin' in that way. Okay. So you mentioned the only way to Find it is to look For tree damage. Tree damage, right. And you said earlier on that there was ho fire, only white smoke. Just a lot of white smoke, you know, like you would have with the, with, uh, you know, potential for fire. But none occurred, Right. There might have been some minor burning, but it went. out, or didn't fully ignite or anything. Just a lot of white smoke. That's about it I guess. Uh, is the toun visible in drawing number 2? No. No, okay. Not visible. It's down around that bend....... That's it, Okay. End of session. Approved For Release EB, Fa po 6-00788R000600120001-3
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