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Waterquake in the South-East Asia: did the US SH-60 crash due to a mechanical failure?

Jakarta, Indonesia - Only two passengers were seriously wounded

A USA Navy Sea Hawk SH-60 helicopter went down last Monday while it was operating a relief flight (see for details AVIONEWS), belongs to Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 2 from North Island Naval Air Station. It was taken off at "Abraham Lincoln" carrier and then it was forced to carry out an emergency landing and touched down wrongly keeling over in a soccer field near the "Sultan Iskander Muda"...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 111855
Rome, Italy, 01/12/2005 17:58
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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