[kellyhound]

An Israeli Air Force UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter breaking free and crashes to the ground during an airlift recovery operation near Gush Etzion, West Bank, on January 16, 2026. No injuries reported. IDF investigating cable failure.

According to the IDF, the helicopter, known in the Israeli service as the ‘Yanshuf’ (Owl), had made a precautionary landing earlier in the week in an open area of the Etzion Brigade sector due to difficult weather conditions.

Black Hawk helicopters in Israeli service are used for routine transport missions and for inserting and extracting troops during military operations.

The Yasur fleet, which has been in service for decades, performs heavy-lift and special operations tasks and is due to be progressively replaced by the new CH-53K-based ‘Pere’ helicopters later in the decade.

[wildaxboxer]

Nice door, he cannot hear you put the potato down

[Mr.NoCredit]

Hopefully the camera person got hit by a rock that got pinched when the copter hit the ground. It should have hit him in the eye just hard enough to enter his brain and drop his ass to the dirt.

[durt]

Usually, you punch them off when you're closer to the ground

[Hogmann]

The title of this post could use some work. Maybe something like "ch-53 drops uh-60 during Airlift."