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Article: Helicopter Tire Cage Deployed To Iraq.
- Article from:
- Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
- Article date:
- February 11, 2007
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Byline: Peter Marteka
Feb. 11--On an October day in 2003, two soldiers were doing routine maintenance on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter in Iraq when the tire they were inflating with high-pressure nitrogen exploded. The explosion sent pieces of the shattered rim flying, severing parts of the arms of Army Sgt. Peter Damon of Brockton, Mass., and killing 19-year-old Army Spec. Paul Bueche of Daphne, Ala. Damon survived the explosion but has prosthetic arms and hands. Shortly after the incident, Hawk Enterprises, a firm based in Huntsville, Ala., that works with Glastonbury-based HABCO to identify safety and maintenance issues for the U.S. Army, made HABCO ...
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