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Old 23rd Jan 2018, 14:33
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Sas - I don't think I am the one in the hole - you seem reluctant to move with the times as far as Flight Safety goes.

Modern Safety Management Systems (SMS) try to capture data from the 'near misses' and learn the lessons before enough near misses result in a proper accident.

If you refuse to acknowledge that this crew did something wrong and don't try to identify it, you are passing up an opportunity to avoid an accident further down the line.

If that means the crew are embarrassed or sanctioned then so be it - better that than mopping up the mess when another crew make the same mistake with added vigour and trash themselves as well as the aircraft.

SAR crews make mistakes, just like anyone else, but if there are extenuating or mitigating factors - operational pressure, technical failure etc then you can say they did the best job in the circumstances and move on.

If people make the mistake because they were lazy, negligent, arrogant, uncurrent or even poorly trained, you are obliged to take action to rectify the shortcomings by whatever means is deemed suitable.


The aircraft lost a tail wheel, no rotor blades hit anything, the aircraft received some relatively minor damage, no one got hurt, and no other property, aircraft got damaged, and no people got hurt or killed.
this time...............

Calling this accident 'real value for humour' is at best schadenfreude and in no way puts you on the moral high ground or at the edge of the hole looking down.
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