The personnel employee discovered the pair in the cockpit during routine maintenance aboard the H-64 gunship, which belonged to the Army Air Corps.
Ground crew had finished a night time servicing the chopper when they noticed something unusual. As the maintenance staff member approached the helicopter, which is armed with a 30mm cannon and Hellfire missiles, they realised the rotors on the helicopter were swaying up and down and there were strange noises coming from inside.
The shocked mechanics found the man and woman, who were believed to have been drunk, half naked inside the aircraft. A report to the Military Aviation Authority said: “It became apparent that the rear cockpit was occupied by two people engaged in sexual intercourse. Both were naked from the waist down — the male in uniform, the female in civilian attire. They were ordered to exit the cockpit and get dressed. Both parties were serving soldiers. Both showed symptoms of intoxication.
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The safety report, which has recently come to light thanks to a computer glitch, said: “They were detained until the chain of command of 653 Squadron and their parent unit arrived.”
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