Wake-up call?

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Here is a video of a US Marine Corps Boeing H-46 Sea Knight bursting into flames as it takes off from an aircraft carrier.

Flight International reported in 1996 that Boeing was pushing for a service-life extension of its CH-46 to the US Navy as an alternative to procuring a new helicopter to fulfil the vertical-replenishment (vertrep) role to 2025.

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Wow, that is one calm cameraman! I'd be somewhat reluctant to fly in a Sea Knight - as with any aircraft that's been flying around the skies longer than I've been alive - but I sure as heck would have been out of the burning aircraft quicker than that guy! Good work by the crew to get back on the deck so fast, and seemingly without injuries.

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