{"id":67357,"date":"2026-09-19T19:20:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=67357"},"modified":"2026-09-20T21:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:22:32","slug":"a-spanish-army-chinook-rescues-a-civil-guard-h135-in-gredos-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/09\/19\/a-spanish-army-chinook-rescues-a-civil-guard-h135-in-gredos-again\/","title":{"rendered":"A Spanish Army Chinook rescues a Civil Guard H135 in Gredos... again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Spain, the Civil Guard is highly experienced in carrying out mountain rescue missions, which are often very risky.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/05\/31\/a-spanish-civil-guard-ec-135-helicopter-in-an-amazing-flight-skimming-the-water-in-vigo\/\">A Spanish Civil Guard EC-135 helicopter in an amazing flight skimming the water in Vigo<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/05\/10\/the-helicopters-and-fixed-wing-aircraft-of-the-spanich-civil-guard-air-service\/\">The helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft of the Spanish Civil Guard Air Service<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This week, <strong>the Civil Guard's Mountain Rescue and Intervention Group (GREIM) and Air Service (SAER) responded to a rescue mission at the Victory Refuge<\/strong> in Guisando, \u00c1vila, located in the Sierra de Gredos. This refuge features a small ledge alongside it that serves as a helipad for rescue missions. Unfortunately, <strong>the H135 HU.26-04A helicopter (call sign Cuco 320, construction number 2256) sustained damage during the landing<\/strong>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ivancp25\/status\/2101062677426561409\" target=\"_blank\">Iv\u00e1n Castro Palacios<\/a>. On September 18, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RadarSpain\/status\/2101040584546766967\" target=\"_blank\">RadarSpain published an image of the damaged helicopter<\/a>, showing a broken rotor blade.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rescate de un EC-135 de la @GuardiaCivil062 por personal de las #FAMET del #Ej\u00e9rcitodeTierra.\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0bSNsijhNpA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Spanish Army has released this video today showing the recovery of \"Cuco 320\"<\/strong> by a heavy-lift CH-47F helicopter from the 5th Transport Helicopter Battalion (BHELTRA V), based in Colmenar Viejo, Madrid. <strong>The Civil Guard helicopter had to be lifted out using slings<\/strong>\u2014a complex operation given the crash site's location.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time an SAER H135 has crashed at this location. <strong>On April 25, 2013, an EC-135P2+\u2014tail number HU.26-18<\/strong> (call sign \"Cuco 312,\" construction number 1007)\u2014<strong>crashed at the same site and was recovered by a BHELTRA V CH-47D<\/strong>, as seen in this video published on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@agrupacionahumada\" target=\"_blank\">Agrupaci\u00f3n Ahumada<\/a> YouTube channel:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Accidente helic\u00f3ptero Guardia Civil en Gredos\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8xypKsmeZlk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Spain, the Civil Guard is highly experienced in carrying out mountain rescue missions, which are often very risky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19631,15961,11547],"tags":[7490,1026,1052,1047,19910,1048,27912,19909,8730,10557,11111],"class_list":["post-67357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloque-6-defense-eng","category-bloque-6-english","category-security-forces","tag-airbus-helicopters-h135","tag-avila","tag-bheltra-v","tag-boeing-ch-47-chinook","tag-civil-guard-air-service","tag-famet","tag-guisando","tag-mountain-rescue-and-intervention-group-greim","tag-sierra-de-gredos","tag-spanish-army","tag-spanish-civil-guard"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-28 16:34:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}