Originally Posted by
Magjam
Looks like the outer winch hook is missing.
Hoist wire spooling out by itself after the hoist excercise ?(forgotten the hoist ON?) , at speed reduction hoist wire swinging up in the rotor causing damage and vibrations leading to a decision to ditch?
Or hoist cable cut when the plan was to activate the floats? (I can see that happening, being prepared for hoist cut during the hoist ex.)
From memory, on a similar type the hoist cable could not be cut unless out at least 0.6m.