The NG Employee, geared up with the U.S. Navy Supervisor of Salvage and Diving crew, is ready to depart to the crash location from Augusta Bay, Sicily, within the coming days.
As soon as on station, salvage consultants will deploy a shallow water intermediate search system (SWISS) and towed pinger locator (TPL) to seek for the plane. The SWISS is a towed side-scan-sonar (SSS) and the TPL is used to find emergency relocation pingers on downed navy and business plane. The TPL will use passive sensors to “hear” for the plane pinger’s frequency.
Restoration of the plane will happen utilizing the Deep Drone distant operated car (ROV). Deep Drone is a 4,100 pound ROV designed to fulfill the Navy’s mid-water salvage necessities to a most depth of 8,000 toes. Each effort will likely be made to recuperate the plane and the fallen Troopers.
NG Employee is a 288-foot offshore provide vessel that’s outfitted with superior, state-of-the-art underwater survey and positioning tools.
Assigned to U.S. Army Particular Operations Command the Blackhawk was carrying 5 particular operations aviation Troopers when it crashed. All Troopers on board had been killed.
The reason for the crash is beneath investigation. For data relating to the incident, contact the U.S. Army Particular Operations Command Public Affairs workplace at 910-432-6005, or by e-mail at PAO-USASOC@socom.mil.
Headquartered in Naples, Italy, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa (NAVEUR-NAVAF) operates U.S. naval forces within the U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) and U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM) areas of duty. U.S. Sixth Fleet is completely assigned to NAVEUR-NAVAF, and employs maritime forces by way of the complete spectrum of joint and naval operations.
