Originally Posted by
falcon900
Airpolice,
I do not know where Tigerfish has obtained the impression that the aircraft diverted over the accident area, but it is my understanding that it was returning to base at the time of the accident. Where he raises an interesting point though is in relation to the earlier diversion to the East of Glasgow where several orbits were flown over parts of the motorway network, after low fuel warnings had illuminated. It seems totally inconceivable that there was no traffic on the police radios in relation to this activity, nor apparently any post facto attempt to identify what might have occasioned it. Given the fuel situation, it must surely have been of some significance to have caused the crew to prolong the flight.
You can't just make things up and then claim there "must" be an explanation.
Perhaps there was radio chat, perhaps their wasn't. Maybe it just wasn't relevant.
Traffic crews don't radio in about every vehicle they look at, or discuss in the car. Response crews are not on the radio every couple of minutes talking to the control room about what they are seeing out on the streets. Why are you all so convinced that the helicopter crew would have told anyone what they were looking at?
Neither Police Scotland, not the AAIB are obliged to tell anyone what they found, or didn't find in the radio tapes, if it's considered not relevant.
I think you should be more concerned about the fact that the AAIB contains errors, and is being presented to the FAI, and the public, as if it was correct.
The impact of the "low fuel warnings" needs to be taken in context of how much fuel that crew usually landed with. Close examination of flight logs, to show patterns of flight duration, over a year, might be more enlightening than listening to the radio