What we are going to tell you may sound like a 3:30 p.m. movie on Antena 3. We say Antena 3 because it is where they show American after-dinner movies and this anecdote is worthy of a nap movie, watch out for the synopsis: a Jeep Grand Cherokeegets stuck on an Alaskan trail and he needs a Black Hawk helicopter to be rescued, its occupants lived hours of tension avoiding death and other vicissitudes of fate. Today in pelis de coches.com: the most expensive rescue in history.
One lazy 4th of July morning, the Smiths (we’ll call them that for drama) decide to celebrate Independence Day with an off-road ride through the Knik Glacier in the Butte Region (Alaska). Everything was ready to hit the road and come home to the sandwiches and apple pie Mom Smith had left on the windowsill to cool before the Fourth of July celebration. Vehicle prepared and route set in the app ornX Offroad of which the Smiths are great users and which on this occasion they had selected with a difficulty of 6/10, moderately difficult.
The Smiths started down the road to 20.3 mile route with total normality, Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyr was playing and there was laughter in the cabin. Daddy Smith thought about that cake cooling at home and the Bud Light he would open with his son at night when they set off the fireworks; the Smiths’ first father-son beer. All was calm when the family SUV, the old Jeep Cherokee ZJ slid into out of the way towards a natural pool created by the force of nature in one of the last melting of the glacier.
For a moment time stopped, there was no longer a guitar solo. The smell of the cake faded and Papa Smith scrambled to find his phone once he checked that Son Smith was okay.
– “Dad, call the help, we have to get out of here anyway!”
– I know son, there is no coverage. We’re trapped!
< This would be the conversation if there really was no coverage, which happens yes or yes in these movies and a hiker would have seen them and would have run down the hill to find help >
In the town closest to the route was Tom from Elite Towing and Recovery in Wasila. A local car towing business who park in handicapped and rescue in the mountains. Tom of Wasila’s Elite Towing and Recovery attempted to reach the Smiths’ Jeep under his own power, but the route was more treacherous than it seemed. His SUV couldn’t handle the high water crossings, the local rain causing the streams to run faster than usual than when the Smiths set out on their route. Tom, from Elite Towing and Recovery in Wasila, had it figured out. If he wanted to save the Smiths from their natural captivity I would have to use a helicopter so that father and son could get home in time to Mama Smith, the pie, the sandwiches, the rockets, and the Bud Light.
Tom, from Elite Towing and Recovery in Wasila, remembered that his cousin on his mother’s side, Tomasson from Heli Alaska, knew the skies well on the route and decided to help his cousin out of a favor he owed. Tomasson flew over the area to precisely locate the Smiths’ Jeep Cherokee, after a first flight and knowing that the strength of his helicopter was insufficientTomasson of Heli Alaska and frustrated at not undertaking the rescue at that time decided to mobilize Jack of Northern Pioneer Helicopters.
Tomasson of Heli Alaska and Jack of Northern Pioneer Helicopters met in the Iraq war and were both decorated, since then the suffering of war has transcended into an unbreakable friendship. Jack of Northern Pioneer Helicopters sped off to meet the Smiths with his UH-60 Blackor as we mortals know it, a Black Hawk to recover the vehicle.
Thanks to the combat skills of Jack of Northern Pioneer Helicopters, the rescue it came to an end in less than an hourwhere the Black Hawk descended from the skies to rescue the Jeep Cherokee and Dad and son Smith and bring them safely home.
End.
This would be the story dramatized In an actual rescue that occurred on July 4 in Alaska, a driver decided to strike out on his own on an Alaskan glacier when the Jeep plunged into a pool of glacial water. The difficulties of the route prevented a normal crane from reaching them and they had to mobilize 2 helicopters, one for sighting and, yes, a second Black Hawk to lift the SUV into the air and take it to a more accessible area to be towed. The average rental price for a UH-60 Black is approximately between $8,000 – $8,500 an hour.
Luckily, no one took any risks and the speed of the maneuver prevented leaks and seepage of liquids from the car into the natural pools.
You know, if you don’t know the way well, it’s better to play it safe.
Source: OnX Offroad, The Drive and Reddit.
