Originally Posted by
AnFI
TR failure?
Pilot tried well and very good outcome. Was the heart recipient a fatality?
Good thing it was not over a city.
Could have been a CATASTROPHE ?
to gain airspeed in a rotating helicopter ideally the cyclic needs to move in the cockpit at (negatively) the same rotational rate, ie constant bearing.
Google suggests they postponed the operation pending a decision on whether to wait for another donor or try an alternative treatment. There is also a lot of information that says heart operations rose by about 14% after the power station disaster!