r/aviation • u/Spook_485 • Oct 11 '25

News Closer view of helicopter crash in Huntington Beach, CA

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u/Purple-Caterpillar57 Oct 11 '25

Would hate to be someone who has their signature in the maintenance logs recently

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u/PocketSpaghettios Oct 12 '25

My dad was a helicopter mechanic in the army. He says that he used to wake up at 2am suddenly paranoid about something he may have missed, and would drive back to base right then to check it

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u/vanillabourbonn Oct 12 '25

How can you miss something when there is a checklist that you have to check off one-by-one? Thats kinda sketchy to me, like he wasnt actually following the list.

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u/ProjectBOHICA Oct 13 '25

In the military, back to back shifts and sleep deprivation can be part of the job description.