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24th Jan 2018, 14:08

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Originally Posted by skadi

But in this case the clouds were far above the helicopter ...

I was flying myself at the time of the accident less than 30NM away from the site. There were no low clouds anywhere in the whole region. EDSB would have been our alternate therefore we listened in on their ATIS and it gave CAVOK conditions. This was certainly not a case of an aircraft "appearing suddenly out of clouds" as the eyewitness(es) stated.

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Originally Posted by 9Aplus

I am sick of such unnecessary, tragic incidents

I quess we all are. But I can not think of a solution which would not lead to an outcry among the lightplane/-helicopter societies because it would either mean retrofitting costly avionics or implementing even more controlled airspace.

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