by bryancobb » Tue Jan 01, 2013 7:32 pm
I saw the News Station footage when Harold rolled a B-2b over, just a couple of years before he died. He talked about the 305 crash you speak of in the interview.
The young, obviously inexperienced reporter asked "Is this the worst helicopter crash you have ever had?" Harold snickers at how stupid the question seems to him and says "No...I crashed a 305 on the side of a mountain one time and we rolled all the way down the mountain before we could get out." LOL
Then the guy asked him "What happened? Did something malfunction or did you hit an air pocket?" Harold, in that TexOkla dialect, says "No! Nothing malfunctioned! I just MESSED UP! I hovered sideways even though I knew I shouldn't, and caught a skid and rolled over!"
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