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Navy helicopter rotor hit flight deck in incident that killed five sailors

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Navy helicopter rotor hit flight deck in incident that killed five sailors

The Navy helicopter crash that killed five sailors began when the main rotor hit the flight deck.

As the MH-60S helicopter touched down on the USS Abraham Lincoln, it experienced “side-to-side vibrations causing [the] main rotor to strike [the] flight deck,” before falling overboard, according to a center mishap report.

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