Japanese Huey has bumpy landing

A Japanese variant of the venerable UH-1 Huey descends to deliver a reconnaissance team during an exercise and lands hard, skidding and bumping the boom on the ground. The helicopter circles, comes back around, and lands again, allowing the troops to disembark. The source shared the video in response to a similar incident in Nigeria. The rough landing by the Nigerian Huey generated some criticism, but this Japanese contributor asserts that rough landings are sometimes part of doing business in a Huey. From my experience, these things occasionally happen in all services, and I recall during my first deployment from 2001 to 2002, a USMC Huey pilot having a similar rough landing in a Huey while we were conducting an exercise in Kenya.

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