Copter and Coast Guard Plane Collide

[Dont call me Shirley]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/us/31crash.html

Military helicopters and ships scoured the waters off San Diego on Friday morning for any trace of nine people involved in a mid-air collision between a Coast Guard plane and a military helicopter hours earlier.

But after nearly 12 hours of searching, rescue teams had reported no signs of any survivors — only a field of debris floating in the Pacific. Military officials said they did not know how the crash had occurred, or which aircraft might have struck the other, saying they were still focused on search efforts.

Were these aircraft TCAS equipped?

 

[BoeingBoy]

Don't know about the Coast Guard's C-130 but probably not. The military helicopter was almost surely not TCAS equipped.

Jim

 

[Dont call me Shirley]

Don't know about the Coast Guard's C-130 but probably not. The military helicopter was almost surely not TCAS equipped.

Jim

my guess is that the C-130 was, the Marine chopper not. So many lives lost because some fool tried to row to Catalina in a 12 foot skiff. Tragic.

 

[Dont call me Shirley]

Report on Coast Guard/USMC collision issued:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/aug/24/no-single-factor-found-coast-guard-marine-crash/