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l H.JRSDAY, MARCH 5, 1998 NAvAL AIR W ARFARE CENTER WEAPONS DIVISION CHINA LAKE
Power Olda~~
lessons la~cl
Vot. 54, No. 5
Extended 'community' rallies for mutual support
in aftermath of NWTSCL rescue helicopter crash
By Barry McDonald
Ed1
tor
M
ost would say they were just
doing their jobs or what any-
one would do in a similar situ-
ation. But the story ofthe convergence of
assistance from public agencies and pri-
vate businesses and individuals follow-
ing the crash of a China Lake search and
rescue helicopter reads like a study in
flexibility and cooperation - people
doing their own jobs professionally, then
going beyond and helping wherever they
could.
All five crew members were killed
when the UH-l N Huey apparently
clipped a power wire, crashed and
burned in the Kern River Canyon in
Tulare County Wednesday, Feb. 18. The
crew included Lt. Daniel Mondon, 29,
NAWCWPNS flag administration offi-
cer, and Lt. Bruce Williams, 36; Aviation
Electronics Technician Third Class
Agustin Beoitez-Rodriguez, 23; Aviation
Structural Mechanic Third Class Michael
Monaghan, 21 ; and Aviation Machinist
Mate Airman Dalyn Wyatt. all..mmlbers
of China Lake Naval Weapons Test
Squadron (NWTS).
A 9-1-1 call to tbe Kern County
Emergency Communications Center
reported the helicopter down and burning
on the rocky canyon wall on the far side
of the river opposite the canyon road at
noon. The call was routed simultaneous-
ly to Care Community Ambulance
Service in Kernville and Kern County
Fire Station 76 in Kernville. Care dis-
patched two ambulances and the fire
department sent an engine and patrol
vehicle each from the stations in
Kernville and South Lake, where the two
stations bad been conducting a joint
training exercise. Battalion Chief Geoff
Wilford also contacted Golden Empire
Air Rescue, a private air ambulance ser-
vice out of Meadows Field in
Bakersfield, to have a medevac heli-
copter sent to the site.
The ambulances were first to arrive on
the scene. The fire was still burning, but
had consumed most ofthe aircraft by that
time. While waiting for further assistance
to find a way across the river to the crash
site, Care's Tony Bobn learned from the
family who had made the initial emer-
gency call that they had read the words
"China Lake" on the helicopter before it
burst into flames. He reported this imme-
diately to Care's dispatcher, and at 12:32,
Stacie Bohn called the NAWS China
Lake commanding officer's office to
report the crash. Messages were sent to
the NAWS CO andXO, who were out of
the office, the NAWCWPNS comman-
der's office and the Quarter Deck, which
in tum notified the China Lake Police
and Fire divisions and NWTS Air
Operations.
Capt. Dane Swanson, NWTS com-
manding officer, first heard the report of
a helicopter down at about 12:40 from
Steve Boster, NAWCWPNS public
affairs officer, at the Rotary Club lun-
cheon in Ridgecrest. Boster's office had
notified him by cell phone. A call to the
squadron by Swanson revealed that they
had an unconfirmed report ofa helicopter
down and that the SAR helicopter that
had left the airfield earlier in the morning
was about 30 minutes overdue. He told
Capt. Mark Voelker (USMC), who was
serving as operations duty officer, to get
another SAR group ready to respond, and
he and Boster returned to the base.
At 12:47, Voelker received a call from
the Tulare County Sheriffs office that a
helicopter had gone down in the canyon.
At the site, within several minutes of
the call to Care's dispatch, the Kern
County fire crews arrived and stretched a
line down to the edge of the river from
where they were able to send a stream of
water onto what remained of the fire.
They were followed within minutes by
two engine companies, led by Battalion
Chief Jim Yearwood, and Jaw enforce-
ment officer Kevin Mayor of the U.S.
Forest Service from the Kernville Ranger
Station. And just behind the Forest
Service personnel was Tulare County
Sheriffs Resident Deputy Alan
Montgomery. Montgomery had heard the
ambulance go past his home at
McNally's Lodge, but assumed it was
heading for a private residence further up
lhe canyon until fire vehicles also went
past. He was headed for his truck when
he received the call from the sheriffs
substation in Porterville.
Since there was as yet no way across
the river, officials at the site used binoc-
ulars to scan the area near the crash for
any sign ofmovement. They initiated the
Incident Command System with Deputy
Montgomery as the incident commander
and Battalion ChiefWilford as the oper-
ations section commander.
A Southern California Edison truck
arrived because the power had gone out
in Johnsondale at II :40. Montgomery
sent Mayor upstream to the area of the
Limestone Campground to check on the
condition of the power lines where he
learned they were indeed down. And the
SCE crew radioed to their base to have
the power to the lines cut off.
Shortly after Golden State's medevac
helicopter arrived on the scene at 12:57,
it transported two EMTs from the Kern
County Fire crew and its own paramedic
to the crash side ofthe river, landing on
a small sand bar roughly I00 yards
upstream from the crash. The three
climbed up the steep rocky bluff and
searched for survivors. They were the
first to confirm four ofthe crew deceased
at the site. This information was relayed
to China Lake by Forest Service radio
through the Sequoia National Forest
Emergency Communication Center in
Porterville.
When officials on site learned from
the base that five crew members had
been aboard the helicopter, they began a
search ofthe immediate area for the fifth
crewman. Since there were some large
trees up the bluff from the crash site,
Montgomery asked medical personnel on
that side of the river to scour the area
under the trees that were not visible from
the air. Others from the Kern County Fire
Department and Forest Service searched
the riverbank downstream from the site
on the possibility that the fifth crew
member had fallen into the river.
Montgomery also contacted Mountain
River Adventures to bring one of their
Please see MISHAP, Page 10
Joint Standoff Weapon System affects tomorrow's battles
I
n preparation for a second deployment of Joint
Standoff Weapon System (JSOW) to USS
Eisenhower this year, training will take place March
4-13, at Naval Air Station Fallon. JSOW's logistics team
is preparing to move the JSOW Dummy Air Training
Missile and Captive Flight Vehicle to Fallon to provide
organizational and level maintenance training and air-
crew training to members of the NAS Fallon Weapons
Department, Naval Strike Air Warfare Center and
Carrier Air Group 17.
The first of several precision-guided standoff
weapons, JSOW made its fleet debut, a year ahead of
schedule aboard the carrier USS Nimitz, which deployed
last September.
According to Weapons Division Commander RAdm.
Rand Fisher, at the Feb. 4 Indian Wells Valley Economic
Outlook Conference, this new weapon capability arrived
in the fleet earlier than expected because the weapon's
successful test performance and productive teaming dur-
ing the development and operational test programs
allowed remaining test articles to be available for opera-
tional use.
Its early delivery to the fleet was also made possible
through concerted efforts of the entire JSOW team, said
Johnston. The team was recently recognized for out-
standing contributions in the global field of aerospace
and is made up of Pete Beyers, Doug Blemker, Paul
Fonua, Dave Hill and is led by Mike Purcell of Point
Mugu and assisted by the JSOW system engineer, John
Owens of China Lake. They provided test planning and
execution ofan accelerated development and operational
test program on both China Lake and San Clemente
Island ranges over a two year period.
"Our integrated team had the same goal in mind -
the delivery of an affordable, lethal weapon to the
warfighter," explained Capt. Bert Johnston, program
manager for Conventional Strike Weapons, NAYAIR
PMA-20 I at Patuxent River, Md, regarding a recent
Logistics Team Award. "Missiles that are produced
today will affect the outcome oftomorrow's battles."
On Oct 21, 1997, before leaving the command of the
Weapons Division, RAdm. Jack Chenevey, presented a
NAWCWPNS Team Award to JSOW Logistics Team
members for their roles in early deployment of the
AGM-154A JSOW. This team included Clyde Swasey,
John Lane, Ronald Reed, Linda Whitham, George Nehr,
Jacob Kershisnik, Norman Wheeler and Gerald
Vanderslice.
Pilots from the Naval Weapons Test Squadron,
including Cdr. Dan Lee and LCdr. Ed Wolski, flew many
of the development test series. Lt. Greg Prentiss led the
Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Nine (VX-9)
squadron's operational test phase.
Please see JSOW, Page 6
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THE ROCKETEER
l H.JRSDAY, MARCH 5, 1998 NAvAL AIR W ARFARE CENTER WEAPONS DIVISION CHINA LAKE
Power Olda~~
lessons la~cl
Vot. 54, No. 5
Extended 'community' rallies for mutual support
in aftermath of NWTSCL rescue helicopter crash
By Barry McDonald
Ed1
tor
M
ost would say they were just
doing their jobs or what any-
one would do in a similar situ-
ation. But the story ofthe convergence of
assistance from public agencies and pri-
vate businesses and individuals follow-
ing the crash of a China Lake search and
rescue helicopter reads like a study in
flexibility and cooperation - people
doing their own jobs professionally, then
going beyond and helping wherever they
could.
All five crew members were killed
when the UH-l N Huey apparently
clipped a power wire, crashed and
burned in the Kern River Canyon in
Tulare County Wednesday, Feb. 18. The
crew included Lt. Daniel Mondon, 29,
NAWCWPNS flag administration offi-
cer, and Lt. Bruce Williams, 36; Aviation
Electronics Technician Third Class
Agustin Beoitez-Rodriguez, 23; Aviation
Structural Mechanic Third Class Michael
Monaghan, 21 ; and Aviation Machinist
Mate Airman Dalyn Wyatt. all..mmlbers
of China Lake Naval Weapons Test
Squadron (NWTS).
A 9-1-1 call to tbe Kern County
Emergency Communications Center
reported the helicopter down and burning
on the rocky canyon wall on the far side
of the river opposite the canyon road at
noon. The call was routed simultaneous-
ly to Care Community Ambulance
Service in Kernville and Kern County
Fire Station 76 in Kernville. Care dis-
patched two ambulances and the fire
department sent an engine and patrol
vehicle each from the stations in
Kernville and South Lake, where the two
stations bad been conducting a joint
training exercise. Battalion Chief Geoff
Wilford also contacted Golden Empire
Air Rescue, a private air ambulance ser-
vice out of Meadows Field in
Bakersfield, to have a medevac heli-
copter sent to the site.
The ambulances were first to arrive on
the scene. The fire was still burning, but
had consumed most ofthe aircraft by that
time. While waiting for further assistance
to find a way across the river to the crash
site, Care's Tony Bobn learned from the
family who had made the initial emer-
gency call that they had read the words
"China Lake" on the helicopter before it
burst into flames. He reported this imme-
diately to Care's dispatcher, and at 12:32,
Stacie Bohn called the NAWS China
Lake commanding officer's office to
report the crash. Messages were sent to
the NAWS CO andXO, who were out of
the office, the NAWCWPNS comman-
der's office and the Quarter Deck, which
in tum notified the China Lake Police
and Fire divisions and NWTS Air
Operations.
Capt. Dane Swanson, NWTS com-
manding officer, first heard the report of
a helicopter down at about 12:40 from
Steve Boster, NAWCWPNS public
affairs officer, at the Rotary Club lun-
cheon in Ridgecrest. Boster's office had
notified him by cell phone. A call to the
squadron by Swanson revealed that they
had an unconfirmed report ofa helicopter
down and that the SAR helicopter that
had left the airfield earlier in the morning
was about 30 minutes overdue. He told
Capt. Mark Voelker (USMC), who was
serving as operations duty officer, to get
another SAR group ready to respond, and
he and Boster returned to the base.
At 12:47, Voelker received a call from
the Tulare County Sheriffs office that a
helicopter had gone down in the canyon.
At the site, within several minutes of
the call to Care's dispatch, the Kern
County fire crews arrived and stretched a
line down to the edge of the river from
where they were able to send a stream of
water onto what remained of the fire.
They were followed within minutes by
two engine companies, led by Battalion
Chief Jim Yearwood, and Jaw enforce-
ment officer Kevin Mayor of the U.S.
Forest Service from the Kernville Ranger
Station. And just behind the Forest
Service personnel was Tulare County
Sheriffs Resident Deputy Alan
Montgomery. Montgomery had heard the
ambulance go past his home at
McNally's Lodge, but assumed it was
heading for a private residence further up
lhe canyon until fire vehicles also went
past. He was headed for his truck when
he received the call from the sheriffs
substation in Porterville.
Since there was as yet no way across
the river, officials at the site used binoc-
ulars to scan the area near the crash for
any sign ofmovement. They initiated the
Incident Command System with Deputy
Montgomery as the incident commander
and Battalion ChiefWilford as the oper-
ations section commander.
A Southern California Edison truck
arrived because the power had gone out
in Johnsondale at II :40. Montgomery
sent Mayor upstream to the area of the
Limestone Campground to check on the
condition of the power lines where he
learned they were indeed down. And the
SCE crew radioed to their base to have
the power to the lines cut off.
Shortly after Golden State's medevac
helicopter arrived on the scene at 12:57,
it transported two EMTs from the Kern
County Fire crew and its own paramedic
to the crash side ofthe river, landing on
a small sand bar roughly I00 yards
upstream from the crash. The three
climbed up the steep rocky bluff and
searched for survivors. They were the
first to confirm four ofthe crew deceased
at the site. This information was relayed
to China Lake by Forest Service radio
through the Sequoia National Forest
Emergency Communication Center in
Porterville.
When officials on site learned from
the base that five crew members had
been aboard the helicopter, they began a
search ofthe immediate area for the fifth
crewman. Since there were some large
trees up the bluff from the crash site,
Montgomery asked medical personnel on
that side of the river to scour the area
under the trees that were not visible from
the air. Others from the Kern County Fire
Department and Forest Service searched
the riverbank downstream from the site
on the possibility that the fifth crew
member had fallen into the river.
Montgomery also contacted Mountain
River Adventures to bring one of their
Please see MISHAP, Page 10
Joint Standoff Weapon System affects tomorrow's battles
I
n preparation for a second deployment of Joint
Standoff Weapon System (JSOW) to USS
Eisenhower this year, training will take place March
4-13, at Naval Air Station Fallon. JSOW's logistics team
is preparing to move the JSOW Dummy Air Training
Missile and Captive Flight Vehicle to Fallon to provide
organizational and level maintenance training and air-
crew training to members of the NAS Fallon Weapons
Department, Naval Strike Air Warfare Center and
Carrier Air Group 17.
The first of several precision-guided standoff
weapons, JSOW made its fleet debut, a year ahead of
schedule aboard the carrier USS Nimitz, which deployed
last September.
According to Weapons Division Commander RAdm.
Rand Fisher, at the Feb. 4 Indian Wells Valley Economic
Outlook Conference, this new weapon capability arrived
in the fleet earlier than expected because the weapon's
successful test performance and productive teaming dur-
ing the development and operational test programs
allowed remaining test articles to be available for opera-
tional use.
Its early delivery to the fleet was also made possible
through concerted efforts of the entire JSOW team, said
Johnston. The team was recently recognized for out-
standing contributions in the global field of aerospace
and is made up of Pete Beyers, Doug Blemker, Paul
Fonua, Dave Hill and is led by Mike Purcell of Point
Mugu and assisted by the JSOW system engineer, John
Owens of China Lake. They provided test planning and
execution ofan accelerated development and operational
test program on both China Lake and San Clemente
Island ranges over a two year period.
"Our integrated team had the same goal in mind -
the delivery of an affordable, lethal weapon to the
warfighter," explained Capt. Bert Johnston, program
manager for Conventional Strike Weapons, NAYAIR
PMA-20 I at Patuxent River, Md, regarding a recent
Logistics Team Award. "Missiles that are produced
today will affect the outcome oftomorrow's battles."
On Oct 21, 1997, before leaving the command of the
Weapons Division, RAdm. Jack Chenevey, presented a
NAWCWPNS Team Award to JSOW Logistics Team
members for their roles in early deployment of the
AGM-154A JSOW. This team included Clyde Swasey,
John Lane, Ronald Reed, Linda Whitham, George Nehr,
Jacob Kershisnik, Norman Wheeler and Gerald
Vanderslice.
Pilots from the Naval Weapons Test Squadron,
including Cdr. Dan Lee and LCdr. Ed Wolski, flew many
of the development test series. Lt. Greg Prentiss led the
Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Nine (VX-9)
squadron's operational test phase.
Please see JSOW, Page 6
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