Brand New PNP Helicopter Tumbles Tents And Huge LED Billboard In Camp Crame
PNP HELICOPTER – During the PNP Service Anniversary attended by President Duterte, a brand new PNP Helicopter flew and blew the tents and LED billboard.
PNP recently bought a brand new Bell 249 helicopter last March that cost at about ₱435 million. PNP said that in the future months, they plan on buying four more choppers from France’s Airbus Industries.
They confessed that the pilots were trying to get used at the speed with the choppers ever since a decade without flying assets.
According to a report in ABS-CBN, People who attended the event ran for safety as the tents were blown away by the helicopter. The chopper flew too close to the ground, giving strong winds which toppled the tents where the attendees sat under.
It then blew the LED screen next to the tents. Luckily, there were no casualties in the incident. However, the damage that the chopper inflicted, especially on the LED lights, cost at about ₱3 million.
As per the report, they posted a video of the incident on their website and in Facebook. You can watch the video below.
As of the moment, the video received at about 3K reactions, and 1.1K shares. Here are some comments about the incident.
Amil Sultan Launto: “The organizers failed to recognize what would be the possible scenarios when you land a helicopter in an open area… this is not a pilot error… it is PNP oversight…”
Nikks GR: “Is this the first time our pilots get to handle actual choppers because of scarcity of resources in our airforce?. God help our beloved Country 
Anthony Fermin: “this is when pnp supervisors failed to double check the setting-out agreement between organizers.”
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