Video Alert: A Marine Landed His Helicopter in a Baseball Field Because He Forgot His Phone at a Nearby Restaurant
Dario Leone
Security, Americas
He did what?
The Super Cobra landed while the Venom circled the area. One person came out of the landed chopper. Lambert ran to meet him and handed off the cell phone.
Taken on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017, the curious video in this post show two helicopters (a Bell AH-1W Super Cobra and a Bell UH-1Y Venom) making a quick visit to Bar Harbor. Noteworthy the Super Cobra landed at the town athletic fields to retrieve a cell phone one of the crew had left at a local restaurant earlier in the afternoon.
On that day in fact six Marines had stopped for lunch at the Thirsty Whale, and one accidentally left his cell phone behind.
As reported by Mount Desert Islander a little while after they left, server Jess Witherell said, the phone rang at the restaurant. The caller ID listed the Hancock County-Bar Harbor airport in Trenton.
“How far away are you from the town ball field?” the voice on the phone asked, according to Witherell.
“Well, are you walking or driving?”
“We’re landing a helicopter at the ball field.”
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