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US Chopper Squadron Invades Poland, Accidentally
No, this is not from The Onion. Bloomberg reports that six U.S. army helicopters landed in a rapeseed field in northern Poland to ask for directions after veering off course on their way back from military exercises. Locals were alarmed and explained, "we know that security is the most important thing right now... But thank God it was the Americans." We wonder how long before Sikorski proclaims this an invasion and demands NATO react...
Five Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and one tandem-rotor Boeing Co. Chinook chopper touched down near the village of Gruta, 220 kilometers (140 miles) north of Warsaw at about noon yesterday, according to local eyewitnesses. Some residents were at first spooked at the sight of the aircraft, Halina Kowalkowska, the village’s head, said by phone.
“We know that security is the most important thing right now,” Kowalkowska said. “But thank God it was the Americans.”
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“The Americans came over and asked where they landed,” Waldemar Krukowski, a local resident, told TVN24 television. “They wanted to know the name of the village.”
Residents brought in leaflets in English about their village and handed them to soldiers, according to Kowalkowska.
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“It was a heavy, thick fog and you could barely see anything, so the boys had to land,” she said. “I’m still shaking after a sleepless night.”
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Twelve aircraft in total made an unscheduled landing on their way from Lithuania yesterday and the day before in what’s a “standard procedure” in poor visibility, according to army officials.
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US Black Hawk`s & Chinook land in Polish fields in village of Gruta do bad weather & took photos with the locals :) pic.twitter.com/qbPrPK03IE
— Michael (@IVIich4eL) September 10, 2014
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One can only imagine the global uproar and sanction-fest if a Russian aircraft landed in Poland, accidentally?
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The NY Times reported this as an invasion by Russian SF.
AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!!!!
Thank GOD it was the Americans...the Poles are so fuckin gullible
In a strange twist of fate, the Polish are now telling American jokes.
They landed to avoid colliding with each other flying in such thick fog.
You can't underestimate the intelligence of the Polacks.
Lost? Ever heard of GPS?
All those fancy dials and screens in the cockpit......one of those doesn't show the way home?
Poles mistakenly invade Poland, start WW3
oh man....ISIS is going to be sooooooo pissed that we're late with the latest shipment of missiles from obama! Someone is going to lose their head over this.
Rapeseed!
It's what Canola oil is made from.
After being in Eye-Rack for so long, these guys got confused by all the lush, verdant, fertile fields and gorgeous Blonde Polish Babes ... instead of seeing cave after cave, mud house after mud house and groups of plump women covered in black from head to toe.
Can't blame them for getting disoriented. Polish women, along with Ukrianian and Estonian women are among the most beautiful in all of Europe.
And time enough for a photo op... yeah I'll believe this when I start shitting out gold turds.
Maybe they could have... you know... adjusted their altitude to avoid "the fog" in those fancy flying thingys.
Bring on the rah, rah, rahing tonight. Can't wait for that.
I thought there is no way fog can cause a US military helecopter to have to land with all the US technology they have aboard. Well then I saw it was the Army. That explained it all.
DG Retired USMC GySgt.
Why does the Navy have Marines on its ships?
Sheep are too obvious.
Moe, I have not heard that one before.
The empty ship brings back Afghani heroin. My guess is Hunter Biden's LNG tankers will export gas and import heroin and more illegals.
I believe this was part of a US crew working inside Ukraine.
Their mission is to destabilize and play some video games about shooting down commercial airlines...
Try driving at 100kts in a thick fog and tell us how you make out even with your GPS
Eh they are helicopters, they can SLOW down and not go so fast so they can use their GPS....
My $30mil GPS is down! MAYDAY
It's like the people who park under an overpass during a rain storm. Maybe it's a safe thing to do, but it's like hanging out a big neon sign that says "I'm pretty sure I don't know what I'm doing."
Oh duh Cosmos!
Thy're BURNING LOTS OF FUEL NO MATTER HOW SLOW THEY GO YOU MOOK!
They set down while they still had enough fuel to return to base.
Are they supposed to stop fighting a war when it's fog outside ? Haven't heard about such a contingency yet. Oh well, must be the "new" military...
Maybe they could flip on their hazard lights and be like the dumb fucks that drive down the interstate at 60 with their flashers on in a rainstorm, it screams "I'm to fucking blind to be driving now but I'm in a hurry so watch out for ME.
I've done that exactly once, the one and only time I heard an Emergency Broadcast System alert for a tornado up ahead on the interstate. At the time I was doing 50 and the rain was passing me, so I figured I was too close. A tractor-trailer pulled under there too. When he left, I did as well, figuring he had better info (pre cell phone days) and that it was safe to go. Two miles later, I watched the wind pick up the back of his trailer and toss him on his side in a ditch. I couldn't even open my driver door against the wind, and had to exit via the passenger door to help him.
Go forward slower, burn more fuel. Maybe not make it.
Stop/land is fuel conserving.
Anyway, hitting mountain at over .mmmm....10 knots turns humans into bags of pressurized blood against various shreadded, sharp aluminum. Bags lose. Impaled on trees are bad too. Ditto thrown clear onto rocks.
Someone made a good call.
Anyway, hitting mountain at over .mmmm....10 knots turns humans into bags of pressurized blood against various shreadded, sharp aluminum. Bags lose. Impaled on trees are bad too. Ditto thrown clear onto rocks.
Someone made a good call.
They only do that when NAVY (See EYe Aye) SEALs are onboard after they were engaged in a fake take out of a long dead Bin Laden who is buried at sea based on Islamic custom. You never want to be one of the guys who sees what you were not supposed to see. They put you on a Chinook in Afghanistan.
Having brains enough to "just say no" to being a pawn in the MIC's rigged game is the best way to conserve fuel.
The good call would have been to stay home. Someone fixed a bad call.
read the gd weather computer before you leave.
Yeah, I guess commercial Jetliners will need to start slowing down in the fog too.
Even my boat has a cheap gps that is accurate to within a yard or so. And when tied in with radar, can use a proximity alarm to keep distance from other craft.
Maybe the military should drop by West Marine for some advice? Or do we suppose Raytheon might already have that figured out?
Try driving at 100kts in a thick fog and tell us how you make out even with your GPS
If the fog was so thick they couldn't fly, and they didn't know where they were, how could they tell what they were landing on? How did they know it wasn't downtown Warsaw?
Wow, asking a Polack for directions? I bet ya Vlad just shit himself laughing.
This story does not really reinforce the Amerikan invincibility meme.
So glad that 'Merca is spending oodles of FRNs per year on all these fancy toys.
<facepalm>
pods
Fancy toys? I can spend a few hundred dollars to get a really nice GPS that has *ghasp* maps on it that tells me where I am. It won't even have the codes to unlock the super precision that it is capable of like the military has access to, and yet it will still tell me where I am within several meters. WTF? This is mature technology, and we don't put the shit on our helicopters? Seriously, WTF?
Their GPS gear wasn't working due to "interference". GLONASS was working just fine however. All they needed was one crewmember with an iPhone 4s.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/20/iphone-4s-supports-glonass-satellite-...
Sorry, no navigation. All the useful military equipment had to go to to local police in US.
"Hey Sarge, where's Ferguson?"
Good thing they unloaded the contents of the Chinook before they had to touch down in Poland.
One can only imagine what "goodies" were being supplied to Ukraine.
@ Pods,
Can you imagine Putin & his Aministration uncontrollable laughter, smacking thier hands on the table saying "what a bunch of incompetent assholes." Hahahahaha....
Hey, pass the Vodka.
I'm sure everyone's military fucks up like this, but damn, if you are gonna squash a story, this one is it.
pods
Well, the US does want a missle base in Poland, so this was a dry run to see how locals would react. Hell, the US military occupies many countries already, so why not add another? /sarc
Dr. Jim Willie says all those global bases are used to move Afghani heroin. Anyone know if it is true?
Golf courses block Obama, await fiery wrath
http://tinyurl.com/k9dtj6a
I heard that on the radio. Sure, we will shut down Winged Foot on Labor Day weekend.
Golf revenues have been declining for years. Seems you need a middle class to have a middle class sport.
pods
incredibly scary that not a single one of the pilots or aircrew had a $60 handheld GPS unit.
That wasn't flight 19 per chance? I hear tell of the Sausage Triangle...
That's kielbasa triangle :))
Sure - Russian SF dressed as Americans, speaking English, flying American helicopters, and carrying American equipment -- either Putin must be REALLY GOOD to have come up with that -- or Google Maps doesn't work on the cell phones the American soldiers are carrying in Poland!
Chinooks. Used by our administration to murder members of the Seal Teams. If you sign up and fight for Uncle Obama & Shlomo and get killed well then you made a bad choice.
They should rename the choppers "Heckawee"
When Corporal Agarne and Sgt O'roarke get their heads out of their asses, they may find out that the war is already over.
Were the pollocks, like, pointing up at the helicopters saying, " It is Baaalloooon!!!"
Freddie, couldn't agree more. Wish I could give you a +1000.
Sad but true. I don't hate American soliders (kids) just the poeple who have been killing them for $$$$$ since The Civil War. Usually banksters who own the politcians.
You put the uniform on and they own you.
I've been there. I will allow no one that I know and hold dear, and I mean nobody, to let their kid join. To think for even a minute about what these guys are dying for.
And puuhleeeez, Save the "they do it for their buddies" speech. I was in. All of us were jealous of our buddies getting out and we all thought the guys reupping were fucking volunteers.
They had the CNN news team embedded directing the mission.
Stopped to ask for directions???????
Yeah, that in itself is the scariest part of this story. Asked for directions. Nothing like that multi-billion dollar defense budget for a little thing called RADAR?
They were looking for Dunkin Donuts, and the App store locator was in Polish so they decided what the hell lets just ask these nice farmers and maybe we can get lucky with a few daughters
Russia has some powerful jamming and GPS spoofing gear near the Ukrainian border. That's how they were able to down 2 drones earlier without destroying them. Maybe the helicopter landing was another one of those practical jokes.
The F-35 is the most advanced and most expensive piece of shit ever built. They are still working on the software.
God help American boys if they get in a war with the Russians.
These chopper pilots when they get their fixed wing license can fly for Air Malaysia or United or some commuter airline. They seem like total F Ups.
I wouldn't worry about it. Those things are so expensive they'll never actually use one in a live operation and risk losing it.
So, we can't fly through bad weather.
Well, that's encouraging...
It looks REALLY foggy in that picture. I don't know how they managed to land.
Every one of those aircraft is IFR capable - but you can't fly IFR in formation in thick clouds safely. I'm sure they knew where they landed in terms of course, heading, and distance to/from their departure point/destination - but not in terms of the name of the nearest village to where they landed, which wouldn't be on their charts.
And they don't have collision avoidance systems either so they set down in the most open area they saw on the charts which would thus have only a small farming village in the area.
Sure, they were flying IFR. "I Fly Freeway." Then they lost site of it, but put their finely honed skills into finding the ground. Or did they have altimeters?
Perhaps there was a female pilot? Men don't usually stop for directions lol.
My kids have GPS, they don't give that tech to the military?
the US airforce aren't renowned for having good direction or precision bombing
thankfully Russia is the largest country on Earth they should find it (just) though they probably won't know which area they're in
Just give those clueless f wits an iPhone and they can ask Siri or the NSA.
I stopped and asked for directions once and Mrs Cog insisted I shouldn't. :-)
<Unfortunately the directions were bad. But then Mrs. Cog's gave me directions (again) and we were quickly back on track. I always listen to Mrs. Cog.....except when I don't.>
Yeah, that's nowhere in the actual story. I sounds like they did ask for the town name, probably so they could report in and compensate town/field owner.
The weather would have to be really, really bad for them to land, but heavy fog and a good line of thunderstorms would do it. T-storms can kill any aircraft.
I hear Russian winters are tough to fight in too.......
The RUSSIANS ARE INVADING! Get the NUCLEAR suitcase!
(if it had been Russians asking for directions)
In order to prevent war, we must start war.
Freud said there are no accidents.
They must have been using that Apple Maps program again! Gets them everytime!
Siri. I have a relative that uses Siri for GPS. She is ***king hopeless. She will send you on a wild goose chase.
- Siri, call Mom.
- Did you say: "Syria has a bomb?"
- Yes
I'm at that age now where the only accidents I have can safely be contained by Depends.
Solar Activity disrupting LF navigation:
http://www.solarham.net/globald.htm
Poland would have been right underneath the strongest part of it at the time.
They look Russians to me.
Sure good to see my tax dollars hard at work here.
I don't know about you, but I still feel very confident in American technical superiority?
<crickets>
....fucking Mapquest, that shit is never right.
ISIS, ISIS ? no no no Ices here, all Polski.
Isn't it kind of funny "beyond funny"?...
A Russian immigrant becomes an entrepreneur and pioneer in his field of aviation to the Country he adopted and a U.S. Army pilot 70 years later rewards Sikorsky's memory by threatening his native Country and can't even understand the instruments well enough to figure out his location?!!!...
Mr. Sikorsky you should have stayed home with your patent(s) in Russia!
To the U.S. military. Hope those exercises for confrontation with Russia go better...
You still have one day left!!!
He thought he was escaping the latent bolshevik (communist) zionistas of soviet Russia. If only he could have known what he was walking into.
He thought he was escaping the latent bolshevik (communist) zionistas of soviet Russia. If only he could have known what he was walking into.
Good thing he died before he could see what the U.S. would turn into.
"But thank God it was the Americans."
We will ask you again in a couple of years.
BLAME PUTIN-! (somehow)
Vlad must be laughing at the "Russian" helicopters, piloted by ZATO pilots, getting lost in Poland. Maybe Ben Affleck can make a new movie about it and win some more CIA-Oscars.
History of the Helicopter and Igor SikorskyMorgan Freeman will play either the kindly old black man or the President. Exec Producers include the See Eye Aye.
Here is one line from the film.
"Reggie we can't be killin more dumb azz SEAL crackers with them Chinooks."
"Somebody might catch on."
What, no GPS in those iWatches..?
"Can y'all tell us if we're anywhere near a Chili's or an Applebee's?"
The MSM poland, must be beating the drums hard abot the parira coming for a visit
Ask for directions. Riiiiight. That ranks up there with building 7 coming down because there were a couple waste paper basket fires on two floors.
Hate to see those guys fly one of those in a sand storm. Oh, wait.
Sorry this is off topic, but goes with the surrealness of all the other articles today.
http://news.yahoo.com/gates-foundation-spend-50m-ebola-response-17462856...
Gates foundation donates $50M to spread...ahem I mean stop the ebola outbreak.
must be a joke, the amis are so exceptional.
the big question is; 'did they buy any apples?'
The apples were made into homemade hard cider. Yum!
And these are the kind of soldiers that the US wants to use to "save" Europe from the "Russian agression"? Good luck with that... It seems they can't even find their way back to the military base, if it had been in a combat situation probably none of them would have made it back anyway...
Wonder what they dropped off ? Secret Raybeam to shoot down Russian missles maybe ?
seal team 6 reformatted for one last job.
find putin one polish potato field at a time.
only another 1600 before they hit putins underground bunker near vladyvostok
Would be funny if after the photo-op they said, "Thanks, but we'll walk from here"
More to this story than meets the eye I think...
These fellas may be needed in Syria. The New hitler - that is, the one that is not Putin, is using chemical weapons again, the scoundrel!
http://news.yahoo.com/watchdog-says-evidence-chlorine-attacks-syria-1337...
You know, if Assad used the sort of munitions on "his own people" that the Israelis used on the Gazans - why it would be proper cause for Obama to send in US forces, no input from congress needed - only AIPAC's policy paper on the matter.
Cute.
Anyway good thing these boys didn't come down, accidentally, in attack formation, in Kalingrad, eh?
http://news.yahoo.com/us-choppers-land-polish-fields-bad-weather-1311052...
Lots of mishaps can happen on that Lithuania-Poland-Germany run. Godspeed, boys!
Lots of mishaps can happen on that Lithuania-Poland-Germany run. Godspeed, boys!
Cause I wouldn't want to wind up like the mercs from the U.S. that looks like this sounds that facilitated the coup that is now bringing U.S. military into it and moving us closer to starting WWIII... This will be you when you fuck up!!!
Godspeed ASSHOLES!!!!
Fixed it!
Chinooks work real well when MIC and the intel agencies want to get rid of SEALs who saw stuff like Bin Laden's double before he was buried at sea - based on Islamic customs. If you see False Flags - you usually end up KIA or MIA.
Another "alleged" American this one a pilot without an American flag arm patch. Don't know what ended up happening to him but in the translation they said his asshole merc accomplice(s) on "crash landing" took his side arm from him and just left him behind as they hightailed it out of there. Bad leg injury and look at the way they are treating him? Think the American soliders and marines would treat the enemy this way? Especially when they are the ones "stirring up the shit"????...
God I hate the American military and more importantly the American people for what they've done and what they've become!
http://www.military.com/video/aircraft/downed-aircraft/injured-ukrainian...
First it was a retired German pilot who informed us about the "cockpit wreakage having 30mm canon holes on both sides"...
Now au Francais!
Nice countryside I say.
If they have been flying from Lituania to Poland, then they have been very close to Kaliningrad.
A pity, that they did not land in Kaliningrad.
Anyone know if heroin use is up in Poland? Afghanistan is always looking for new markets. Maybe they were making a delivery.
Protecting our freedums.
... It's a small world...
How many Polacks does it take to turn a squadron?
Q: What is long and hard that a Polish bride gets on her wedding night?
A: A new last name.
" to ask for directions " - their wives must have been with them, otherwise those pilots would have just trucked on
Priceless comment Sir!
You didn't know that asking for directions was now an option on army land nav courses???
That cancer will make it to PI before the next electoral farce, if it hasn't already...
The u.s army..... lost?
What happened to all the latest wizbang GPS technology? A compass? Rand McNally? Heck a Sextant? (no ZH'ers, not that kind of sex).
Same bullshit excuse they use with the economy, the damn weather. You know it really has to shake the confidence of every critically thinking person, that same people who are saying they can centrally plan and model 50 years into the future with a straight face are the same ones whose entire forecasting model can be fucked up by a single cold winter.
Just assume for a sec those would have been Russian... Well, actually they know their turf, so wrong assumption... Nevermind.
SO? any sanctions? or it's ok to invade small countries????
Blazing Whirly-Birds....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbWg-mozGsU
American Fucks - always exceptional, indispensable and almost never intelligent.
They will be awarded the Obama Medal of Competence by General Skyler Sky King.
Well the Ukraine civil war has a lot of lessons.
- Russian militrary equipment actually WORKS pretty well
- Tanks are a thing of the past, they are totally unusable against a well equipped opponent
- This is the age of missiles, anything that can be killed by a missile is DEAD - this includes the US carriers that would sink within hours in a conflict with Russia
- NATO technical advantage is largely imaginary as Russia has better missiles that negates just about every advantage the US has
- a small, but determined and motivated force can defeat a much larger force (the US however could never do this, they always had a material advantage, they never won without it)
No wonder Obama is not sending troops to Ukraine, they would lose the war badly against Russia.
NATO bases are just posturing as NATO cannot (and will not) defend eastern Europe. Russia does not want to invade EU, EU has nothing that it needs that cannot be have for gas.
Ah and helicopters. They are fully and totally useless in a modern conflict. They are pretty good blowing up mud huts though.
Most important of all, NATO would be in a world of hurt if forced to fight with NO Air Superiority. Modern missiles are deadly against aircraft too, not just against ships.
If these choppers veered further north, they could have entered Russian Kaliningrad and been shot down. Who is in charge of this squadron?
Who's the guy in charge? The guy that left his palm pilot at home this morning.
The only way you to learn how to fly formation in shit viz is by flying formation in shit viz. VFR 500 feet off the deck @ 120 knots and 6 disks clearance and under 1 click viz. Pucker up.
Fatalities? None. What the fuck is the story here?
Oh yeah.... bunch of armchair ninnies get to take potshots at real men doing real shit.
LMFAO. You girls. Get-a-fucking LIFE the lot of ya.
4/7 Air Cav "Garry Owen" IN FRONT OF THEM ALL
Real men? Half of them are lesbians. That's your "Air Cav" of today, soldier. Dikes and fat guys.
Look, you want to see a real man, look no further than the so-called "rebels" of east Ukraine. They are being murdered by the comrads of these fucking brainless tools who are what, the "good guys"?
The patriots are eating raw potatoes and the occasional commandeered polish sausage. I'd be curious to see how this plays out, but the "Heros" Mem ain't cutting it here, that's for sure.
So war IS real shit? You should do it more then, there are plenty of wars around where you can get shot down in a chopper.
NATO Stronk!
An accident? Of course it was. Wink, wink.
I have a hard time believing that the US military, flying blackhawks, had to stop and ask directions. It looks like a pretty nice sunny day in the pictures. What, did they hang around to play parcheesi with the locals for the day?
Fog eh? well nothing says approaching winter like fall fog out.
What an idiotic post. Poland is a member of NATO. CH-47's have archaic avionics systems.
You have got to be kidding! WTF? Thank God I flew with Marine pilots! We never had to ask for friggin directions!
How can anyone think our military would be capable of winning a war when they can't even find their way out of Poland!
LOL!!!
Next stop, Novorossya...
Well, mebbe the US guys are sposed to SEEM to be stupid?
That's what happens when you fly with a copy of Greenspan's The Map and the Territory.
god bless these "heroes"
Sikorski? Sounds russian!
You started it, you invaded Poland!