{"id":190726,"date":"2009-10-31T05:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/31\/ecuadorian-helo-crash-air-show\/"},"modified":"2009-10-31T05:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T10:39:00","slug":"ecuadorian-helo-crash-air-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/31\/ecuadorian-helo-crash-air-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuadorian Helo Crash Air Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 410px; float: right; text-align: center;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img263.imageshack.us\/img263\/9519\/helocrash1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img263.imageshack.us\/img263\/9519\/helocrash1.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/img263.imageshack.us\/img263\/3779\/helocrash2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img263.imageshack.us\/img263\/3779\/helocrash2.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>They walked away from <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">this<\/span><span>?<br \/><object width=\"384\" height=\"236\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NhNML69rxmw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NhNML69rxmw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"384\" height=\"236\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>Here is the video<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Thankfully, there were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/10\/29\/334136\/pictures-pilots-escape-as-ecuadorian-dhruv-helicopter-crashes.html\">only minor injuries at the crash<\/a>, which occurred during an armed forced day celebration, but in keeping with my policy of never letting a crash with video and a happy ending go unnoticed, here it is.<\/p>\n<p>I will say that it is kind of surreal how the marching band never misses a step in the video as the helo comes down.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Aa1224f9c-05a2-4fd6-8664-c11aa4f4636e\">Graham Warwick<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size They walked away from this?Here is the video Thankfully, there were only minor injuries at the crash, which occurred during an armed forced day celebration, but in keeping with my policy of never letting a crash with video and a happy ending go unnoticed, here it is. I will say that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1068,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-latin-america","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}