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https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/3 ... ow-the-sea

The navy pulled up a Seahawk from about twice the depth of the Lexington. So there goes one reason we can’t recover a TBD or two...

That's pretty neat!

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Fascinating. Someone obviously decided that the cost was worth the reward. And then someone decided it would be good to publicize. All for a utility helicopter.

The Lexington is reportedly over 9,000', so it's not out of the question - other than funding & will.

Ken

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It appears to be in decent shape as well.... a bit of duct tape will probably fix it

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I would guess that they recovered it just for training than crash investigation purposes.
It would be interesting to know if they salvage any parts off the airframe.

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Maybe it had some sort of magic IFF gear aboard or the plans for the defense of Taiwan. I find it unusual to go to those lengths for such a mundane chopper, otherwise.

Okay, Why would a "mundane" helicopter have anything secrect/semi secret/sensitive aboard?

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Have a feeling that there was something onboard the bird that drove the recovery. Trying to retrieve something at those depths is a very expensive black art. Something to notice in the article, is that they essentially loaded up the chartered vessel and went straight to the site. That means they knew where it was quite precisely.

I would bet it had something on board they wanted to recover or they wanted to see if a certain componet failed.The navy went after that F-14 that crashed killing the pilot a long time ago just to prove a bleed valve failed and that it wasn't pilot error.Some of you might remember that.

Kara Hultgreen crash off San Diego in 1994. I remember it well. She was the Navy's first female Tomcat driver.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Hultgreen