# The Wrecked Helicopter **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 4, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wrecked-helicopter/580759 "2011-05-04T21:41:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wrecked-helicopter/580759/1 "2011-05-04T21:41:28Z")
Check out this link if you have a tough stomach: [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/may/04/osama-bin-laden-compound?CMP=twt\_gu#/?picture=374256178&index=6](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/may/04/osama-bin-laden-compound?CMP=twt_gu#/?picture=374256178&index=6) Among the photos are a couple of the wrecked helicopter. Maybe I haven’t been paying attention but it doesn’t look like any helicopter I have ever seen. Is it well known that a machine of this sort has been deployed or was it top secret. It’s obviously had stealth characteristics. ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wrecked-helicopter/580759/2 "2011-05-04T21:49:36Z")
I’d guess that all the aluminum in it has burned and all we’re seeing is the engine and the blades. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wrecked-helicopter/580759/3 "2011-05-04T22:34:18Z")
[Aviation Week](http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=defense&id=news/awx/2011/05/03/awx_05_03_2011_p0-318248.xml&headline=Bin%20Laden%20Raid%20May%20Have%20Exposed%20Stealth%20Helicopter) had an article wondering the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wrecked-helicopter/580759/4 "2011-05-04T22:35:30Z")
Weird. It looks like the tail rotor of an MH 60 Blackhawk, but then again doesn’t. These guys have another view and a drawing (scroll down): > **[CAD of the damaged MH-60 tail section.](https://www.snafu-solomon.com/2011/05/cad-drawing-of-damaged-mh-60-tail.html)** ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wrecked-helicopter/580759/5 "2011-05-04T22:46:16Z")
When Brian Williams was on Letterman on Monday, he said that he had been in one. He couldn’t describe it beyond saying something to the effect that it was a tricked-out shell stuffed with electronics, unlike other helicopters he’d been in. There’s something about it on ABC News tonight as well. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wrecked-helicopter/580759/6 "2011-05-04T22:49:42Z")
It’s been confirmed by an unnamed “retired special operations aviator” Caveat emptor, of course. [http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/05/army-mission-helocopter-was-secret-stealth-black-hawk-050411/](http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/05/army-mission-helocopter-was-secret-stealth-black-hawk-050411/)