A sampling of folklore definitions through the years: 2007AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY:Folklore is the traditional art, literature, knowledge, and practice that is disseminated largely through oral communication and behavioral example.
The pilots of the 1st Black Hawk shot down, Cliff Wolcott and his copilot, were wedged in the wrecked cockpit pretty tightly & the crash had kicked up a lot of dirt, partially burying both of them. The guys doing the extraction had to cut the entire front end of the chopper apart around both bodies to get them out.
Tammy Duckworth: We were almost home. The four crew members of Black Hawk 83-23856 had flown five or six helicopter missions that Friday, screaming low over the terrain at 140 mph, touching down, dropping off soldiers, picking up others and lifting off into the rainy sky again within minutes.