Originally Posted by
Flyting
I made an earlier comment that in the event of a ditching the passengers should have been prepared to act and possibly extricate themselves from the helicopter.
After seeing the restraint (a standard building construction fall safety harness) and the location of the tether (apparently a light chain) attachment point (hard against the rear cockpit bulkhead) I see my comments were quite unreasonable.
With four passengers in the rear seating area, the inversion and immersion of the helicopter would have made it all but impossible for them to cut the heavy harness in four places to effect escape.