Wow: Chinook Pilot Performs Stunning 'Pinnacle Landing' to Save Man Who Changed His Mind about Committing Suicide

Tré Goins-Phillips : Jul 16, 2018
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The helicopter's pilot landed the aircraft on just its two back wheels while the front of the chinook hovered in the air for an operation that lasted roughly three minutes...

(Oregon)—[Faithwire.com] He ascended Mount Hood in Oregon with the intention of committing suicide, but somewhere along the journey, a climber changed his mind. (Image Source: KOIN-TV/ via Faithwire)

After reaching the mountain's peak, the climber, who has not been named, decided he no longer wanted to end his life, so he called last Thursday for help, the Clackamas County sheriff told The Oregonian.

Then the Oregon Army National Guard went to work to save him.

"He ended up calling basically saying he was up there, he was going to be taking some medication," Sgt. Sean Collison, a spokesman for the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office, told KOIN-TV.

In order to save the man, who was ultimately retrieved uninjured, the National Guard sent a chinook helicopter and a team of six rescuers into an altitude of more than 11,000 feet. The helicopter's pilot landed the aircraft on just its two back wheels while the front of the chinook hovered in the air for an operation that lasted roughly three minutes...

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