Originally Posted by
DogTailRed2
There have been several catastrophic failures recently leading to loss of life. Have ballistic chutes ever been looked at as a last ditch survival mechanism for helos?
It has also been reported that families of those lost are crowd funding to pay for their repatriation. Would a helicopter flight be considered high risk? Would standard holiday insurance not pay out?
Believe the couple were from Oxfordshire. The crowd funding is to enable them to be laid to rest in the land of their birth.