U.S. Army probing problems with cockpit airbags on helicopters

The U.S. Army is deactivating cockpit airbags on more than 400 UH-60A/L Black Hawk and OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopters while investigators try to determine why the inflatable devices seemed to malfunction in two recent incidents, according to a spokesman for Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM...

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