After his son was killed in a marine helicopter accident, a father said that outdated technology was robbed of answers to answers

In a statement on NBC News On Friday, a marine spokesman confirmed that the improvement of the superstallions with the technology is “cost-internal” due to the remaining lifespan of the aircraft.

According to Navy, to which the Marine Corps belongs, the marines have been using the powerful superstallions for more than 30 years to transport heavy devices, stocks and troops. According to the investigation report, it will cost almost 72 million US dollars to replace the superen destroyed in the crash.

“The examination team for this misfortune worked in detail and thoroughly evaluated possible scenarios and simulations in order to draw conclusions from the available data and analyzes,” said the spokesman for the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.

However, the latest variant of the Marine Corps helicopter, called CH-53K King Hengst, is equipped with a surviving crash survival flight data recorder with a language recording function and is expected to replace the old superstallion fleet with the 2032 financial year.

And in July 2023, the Marines announced that after another fatal incident, they would integrate a survival, high-temperature and fire-resistant flight data writer into all of his MV-22B fishermen.

The father's urge to update the antiquated federal technology takes place according to a series of aviation disasters this year, including the deadliest US air crash in almost a quarter of a century. On January 29, an army of Black Hawk collided in a commercial aircraft in the middle of the Washington, DC, and killed all 67 people on board the aircraft and helicopter.

The army helicopter had a black box that the officials said they had recovered in good condition.

During this investigation, Langen said: “Many questions were answered.” The investigators were able to thoroughly short candidates with what they had and what they looked at less than a month after the catastrophe.

“We will never have that,” said Langen.

Bundal are also concerned pilots and flight supply manager, the Federal Aviation Administration nationwide to fix their aging infrastructure.

The call to change follows the test of the supernasium with repeated mechanical failures.

In 2014, a superstallion with 25 service members fell due to the catastrophic failure of one of his engines, even though all passengers survived. Four years later, four marines were killed when their super stallion crashed during a training mission in South California.

A marine examination showed that the crash of 2018 was caused by a faulty part, as was submitted from a complaint from the Marines' families against the supplier and manufacturer of the part. The case was enclosed and, according to Dave Casey, the San Diego lawyer who represented the pilots, the agreement was confidential.

The accident in February 2024, in which Langens son was killed, was not a result of a material or mechanical failure of components on the plane, the investigators said, although they said, the engine of the helicopter was incorrectly switched on due to a frayed wire.

The investigators made some recommendations for the management of the sea, including the clarification of the vague language in protocols and the determination of how the commander of the squadron should best be disciplined for the approval of the flight, but they did not deal with the lack of data that disabled his investigation.

“As a parent, you want to know what happened,” said Langen.

The five members of the Marine Heavy helicopter squadron 361 started from Imperial County Airport, where they recharge their batteries to Nevada and, according to the investigation report, went home to the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego shortly after 10 p.m. after 10 p.m.

There were three pilots on board: capt. Miguel Nava, 28; Captain Benjamin Moulton, 27; and capt. Jack Casey, 26. Also on board was Lance Cpl. The 21 -year -old Donovan Davis, who was recently promoted.

SGT. The 23-year-old Alec Langen was the head of the crew, who was responsible for the safety of passengers and other loads and maintenance during the flight. He had just married about a month earlier, said his father.

And Nava from Traverse City, Michigan, had just become a father and greeted his wife about four months earlier, his family said NBC News.

About 30 minutes after their flight, they all rushed against a mountain ridge near Pine Valley, California.

Search and rescue teams have over 10 hours To find your bodies in a remote area that is covered with snow. At least two of them were killed immediately, and one was completely not recognizable, found in a burning pool of Jet fuel, the report says.

“The most difficult thing was to read that the five were placed there until 8 a.m.,” said Langen.

Investigating weather conditions should have signaled to the crew that it was not possible to fly safely, the investigators said, but they could not “determine” an explanation for the question of why they were decreased.

Immediately after the crash, Davis' father said that the family had “difficulties to understand the operational need to fly into one of the worst storms in the history of Southern California”.

Gregory Davis had asked the Ministry of Defense to carry out a thorough investigation of the circumstances behind the decisions that led to the crash “so that we may have a certain understanding and closure for the apparently senseless loss of our son and brother”.

In November 2024, the team's commander was released after the officials found that he had “exceeded” his authority in the approval of the flight.

The investigators said that he had to take more than two minutes to talk to the pilot about the weather conditions and their planned route, and that he should apply for a higher residence permit after the flight mediation, but they are not responsible for the crash.

Langen said he and his wife wanted no fingers to be shown. They just wanted to answer why they no longer had their “larger than lifelong” son, who towered over with 6-foot 5, always had a smile and met the footsteps of his veteran father.

In order to find more clarity, Langen said that he had examined autopic reports and the 1,140-page examination report, which was sometimes greatly reduced. He also examined the lean photos of the accident and visited the crash site.

This only resulted in heartache.

Instead, Langen put his son to rest without knowing what happened in his last moments. The family held his funeral at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, where officials briefly close the airspace to honor a man who had served for seven years and planned to make a career as a career, said Langen.

When he died, Alec Langen was only shy for three weeks to be put into a safer job, his father said.