They'll give anyone a license these days..

Why is this marked as comedy? Where's the funny?

Nobody got hurt in the making of this video. Nonetheless I wanted to edit the video, but it's not letting me.

i've seen this before and i dont recall laughing, i recall gasping at how fast that thing sunk, can we verify nobody died? I'd honestly be shocked if they all lived.

Well of course they'd live the Navy always does egress procedures for emergency water landings/crashes.

Don't be too assumptive, farhad. Make no mistake- 7 men died here...

On Dec. 9, 1999, a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, with 18 people on board, crashed while attempting to land on the Navy tanker PECOS (T-AO 197) during a training exercise. The chopper's landing gear apparently snagged a metal safety net and the helicopter flipped over into the water and quickly sank. Eleven Marines were rescued by special warfare crewmen on two nearby boats. But six Marines and a sailor drowned, their bodies recovered later from the sunken wreckage by an unmanned submersible vehicle. (http://navysite.de/planes/ch46.htm#gallery)

This video is a dupe... http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=7331

Its previous appearance was as part of a compilation, however, and this version it is clear what happened- you can see the bad landing and the gear getting caught in the safety net.

Downvote for comedy tag.

*blog (after reading blankman's statement on the video)

Not necessary to blog this, it's been debated ad nauseum in this thread. http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=7331 . Hell, we even had a military helicopter pilot weigh in on the discussion.

I say let it die a natural death. *return

Not jumping all over you with the downvote, farhad. Let's just get rid of this.

starblog only works for goldies anyway; there's a fork stuck in this vid.

Discarded due to negative votes by members

Apologizes to all.

*discard