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I just can't see what's wrong with a rotor blade touching the sea? In the 80s, we used to regularly give all the blades a quick dip during a shuttle flights to give them a wash. It improved performance taking off from undersized bow mounted low helidecks at night meaning we could ask for additional doughnuts and ice cream. If the "too heavy" light illuminated on the dashboard, we used to stick some blue tack over it to stop it becoming annoying.
What's wrong with today's passengers? They are going soft. I thought Canadians wore big boy pants.
I have been called as an expert witness.
https://www.bst-tsb.gc.ca/eng/rappor.../a19a0055.html
According to the actual report, the is no evidence of the blade ever having touched the water, so that statement by passengers is simply conjecture. Likewise I can’t imagine one of the huge blades on an S92 making contact with water without ripping itself to pieces.
As 212man posted earlier:
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So this begs the question, are they using information from the report? The Prosecution certainly mentions the screens going blank, something I highly doubt any passenger would have noticed during the incident and is only a result of the generators dropping offline.
And if they’re not using information from the report because they can’t then it’s all witness statement with no corroborating evidence.
I’m sure the experience was scary for the passengers, but I was a passenger in a fixed wing years ago that hit the runway hard in a storm and damaged the gear before going around and diverting. Can I file a class action lawsuit for that?