North Sea heli ditching: Oct 2012
Good job! (is too short a message to post, so bolstered with superfluous verbiage - Happy now pprune?)
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Good report just now on BBC Scotland news. helicopter still afloat and visible from Fair Isle.....Lifeboat standing by. all 19 SOB safe and well. 
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Pleased all safe; now we can all sit back and wait for that well known "aviation expert" Jim (no mates) Ferguson to tell us what happened in his usual inimitable style.
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bbc news has the story on the web site
BBC News - North Sea helicopter ditching: 'All safe'
interesting analysis
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BBC News - North Sea helicopter ditching: 'All safe'
interesting analysis
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Now everyone is ok, I can be sarcastic. I suppose we are going to blame Bond for this? Or are rig workers going to refuse to fly on CHC helis now?
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The funniest part of an AAIB interview I had a long time ago was when one of the investigators said "We won't worry too much about what you tell us, we'll just read what that t**t jim Ferguson says and write the report from that!"
One day the media will properly read these pages and get the inside industry opinion of JF.
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One day the media will properly read these pages and get the inside industry opinion of JF.
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This sort of thing is becoming increasingly common.......
On the topic, glad to see that the ditch evolution was successful, in terms of getting the bird down safely, and the people out safely.
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CHC Press Release.
STATEMENT: CONTROLLED DITCHING OFF OF SHETLAND, U.K.
'Big' team on the case by the look of it.
Emergency Response | The BIG Partnership | PR & Digital Marketing
STATEMENT: CONTROLLED DITCHING OFF OF SHETLAND, U.K.
'Big' team on the case by the look of it.
Emergency Response | The BIG Partnership | PR & Digital Marketing
Well done to the CHC crew it is never easy to ditch but with good crew training the decision becomes easier. Glad everybody is fine and well.
I did find it interesting to ditch a 365N2 into the hotel swimming pool - even the sunshades moved under the effect of the downwash - damn good these French Simulators
HF
I did find it interesting to ditch a 365N2 into the hotel swimming pool - even the sunshades moved under the effect of the downwash - damn good these French Simulators
HF
SAR Aircraft MMSI 111232502 (OC?)
AIS track shows them almost stationary at 61.6N 1.3E at 1418 then 140kn to the hospital helipad in Aberdeen at 1646. Timings UTC.
AIS track shows them almost stationary at 61.6N 1.3E at 1418 then 140kn to the hospital helipad in Aberdeen at 1646. Timings UTC.
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REF:- Danish chemical tanker Nord Nightingale rescued all 19 pob using her rescue boat, all then transferred to RAF Rescue 137 and flown to Kirkwall.
Ref Little Clouds statement!
Rescue 137 was asked to pickup 12 survivors from NN's bridge wing and proceed to KWL(Kirkwall)!
Rescue Bond2 recovered the remainder (7) and took them to Sumburgh due to prevailing weather at Kirkwall. Fact.... Landing at Sumburgh at 1655z.
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Ref Little Clouds statement!
Rescue 137 was asked to pickup 12 survivors from NN's bridge wing and proceed to KWL(Kirkwall)!
Rescue Bond2 recovered the remainder (7) and took them to Sumburgh due to prevailing weather at Kirkwall. Fact.... Landing at Sumburgh at 1655z.
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I did find it interesting to ditch a 365N2 into the hotel swimming pool - even the sunshades moved under the effect of the downwash - damn good these French Simulators
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They better be damn good to prepare the crews of the not so damn good helicopters for ditching. It appears that the need to ditch this type of helicopter has increased slightly in the recent past.
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They better be damn good to prepare the crews of the not so damn good helicopters for ditching. It appears that the need to ditch this type of helicopter has increased slightly in the recent past.