Sikorsky MH-53J Pave Low III Desert Storm CSAR mission
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- 6:05 a.m. 160 miles inside Iraq, 30 miles from Baghdad:
Lts. Devon Jones and Larry Slade bail out of their U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat when it is struck by an Iraqi SA-2 missile.
8:00 a.m. Arar Airfield, Saudi Arabia:
USAF 20th Special Operations Squadron Capt. Tom Trask, Maj. Mike Homan and crew take off in dense fog in an MH-53J Pave Low helicopter en route to the crash site.
8:15 a.m. Iraqi border:
Capt. Trask and Maj. Homan drop their helicopter to a flight altitude of 15 feet to avoid enemy radar and proceed to the crash site.
8:50 a.m. Crash site vicinity, Iraq:
An enemy fighter appears, then retreats when two USAF F-15 Eagles pick the fighter up on their radar. Capt. Trask, Maj. Homan and crew join the search and rescue team and begin their search for Lts. Jones and Slade.
10:30 a.m.
Unknown to the team, Lt. Slade is captured. (He is not released until March 4, 1991.)
Arar Airfield, Saudi Arabia:
The MH-53J crew is unable to locate the downed F-14 crew and return to refuel; they fly back to the crash site and resume their search.
1:55 p.m. Crash site vicinity, Iraq:
The helicopter crew makes radio contact with Lt. Jones; one of the door gunners spots an enemy truck heading toward Lt. Jones. Two USAF A-10A Thunderbolt IIs, components of the search and rescue team, remain despite critically low fuel and destroy the vehicle.
2:15 p.m.
Capt. Trask lands the MH-53J less than 150 yards from the smoldering truck, and a crewman, Sgt. Ben Pennington, helps an exhausted but grateful Lt. Jones into the helicopter.
3:15 p.m. Iraqi border:
Capt Trask, Maj. Homan, the crew and Lt. Jones return safely to Saudi Arabia. - Věda a technologie
Outstanding video...I had no idea this video was around until my mom posted it to Facebook. My father is the second crew member interviewed.
These were the men I had the Pleasure of serving with. They were the most highly trained tecnolgically advanced and most intelligent men and I ever worked with. They rate with any of the world's SPECIAL FORCES. The aircraft was the world's most sophisticated helicopter in the world and so were the men and women who flew on them and worked one them. I am proud to have done both. The Ofsprey will never have the history of the Pavelow, no matter how sophisticated it is.
Worked on them at Depot at NAS Pensacola, if asked to do again "Get me some Tools, a Job Guide, and let's get to WORK"...
"PAVE LOW Leads"...
RIP Ben Pennington. I miss you brother. HOOYAH!
Apache and H-53 were designed for 2 totally different missions. Both are the top birds in their category.
i love the Pave Low an 21 tons armor plated Helicopter
Oops. I meant thanks for picking us from Lake Isbella.
@demonikfunk the c17 carries no armament of any kind. I think you are thinking of the ac130
What "turtle" goes 200 mph?
Hands off my girl
blackout of transformers :D
what is gonna replace this thing?
Tom, sorry 'bout the beer bottle under the sofa.
pave lows are big ass fucking flying turtles
How can the Osprey replace a helicopter? Osprey may be able to do a VTOL but truly hover? Nope. I miss working on the H-53. One I worked on is in the museum at Hill AFB, Utah, another at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
I think my dad was one of the flight engineers on this mission
Who’s your dad? I know all the crew members from this mission.
@@justinh-r880 Hi, I am a webmaster of Gulf war pages at www.dstorm.eu. I would like to get more info about that mission. Thanks. Email is on my site.
Sorry it took so long for me to respond, his name is Matt Nicholson
@@ranaldbanzac4375 hey, no worries…the Pave Low crew was made up of Trask, Homan, Hadrych, Peterson, Van Hyning, and Dock. The two PJs were Penington and Bedard.
@lukey1212385 Yeah same here to bad it's not in service anymore :(
@4merlinn1 Shitload with armor chestnut -.-
only the usmc fly's these now days.
pavelows r the shit
U suck nobody likes u 👿👎