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Old 13th Mar 2018, 05:30
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Lonewolf_50
 
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Some of you people are killing me. Look at the water temp, and the untrained pax.

I was fortunate to be the beneficiary of both helo dunker/escape training, and the hypothermia/cold water training in the Navy. Even with that training, without a well crafted anti exposure suit, I'd have as good a chance as any of them of being dead with immersion as a passenger with little to no CRM in the event of a quick loss of power/ditching into 4 degrees C water.

FFS, I am pleased that anyone at all is alive after this unexpected ditching.

Why did the engine die? That's the question.
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