User:Aforwiki33/The cable disaster

The cable disaster is a training accident that occurred on the night of August 10, 1992: During a helicopter rescue training of Unit 669 near Arad, the cable that connected the two soldiers of the unit, Assaf Rosenberg and Gil Tsuriano, was torn while they were being lifted into the Yassur helicopter. The two fell from a height of 15 meters and were killed.

Description of the event
On the night of August 10, 1992, a training exercise was held, designed to practice the ascent and descent of fighters, as rescuer and rescuee, in a Yassur helicopter rescue crane, while the helicopter was hovering over the training area. While Rosenberg and Soriano were in front of the helicopter's entrance, the crane cable suddenly broke and they both fell from a height of about 15 meters. Zoriano was found unconscious. Rosenberg complained of pain in his back, and a few minutes later he lost consciousness. The captain of the helicopter, Major Rafi Peretz, called a medical rescue helicopter, and landed near the scene of the disaster. The ground controller who was at the crash site immediately started providing medical treatment to the fighters, and he was joined by the air controller who was in the helicopter. The two controllers, who were qualified medics, treated the injured until the arrival of a helicopter with a medical team. After several attempts at resuscitation and stabilization made in the field by the medical teams, the two were flown to Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva, where they were pronounced dead.

Investigation of the incident
The commander of the Air Force, Major General Herzl Budinger, appointed an internal investigation committee headed by Colonel Shimon Ben Ner, which determined that the disaster happened due to a technical failure. Following the committee's recommendations, Major General Budinger determined 31 tasks for implementation in the Air Force. At the same time, another committee was appointed to investigate the accident, headed by Brigadier General (res.) Giora Zore. The committee listed six possible reasons that may have caused the failure, without determining which of them has the dominant causal connection and to what extent it contributed to the incident, if at all. The Air Force Attorney's Office decided that there is no basis to prosecute or take any disciplinary procedure against any of those involved in the incident due to the lack of evidentiary infrastructure for this. This decision was approved by the Chief Military Prosecutor.