Originally Posted by
Bell_ringer
And yet one of the operators has bought every carcass out there and put them to work in HEMS roles.
Which HEMS operator are you referring to, if I may ask?
To the best of my knowledge there were less than 5 of them in SA. NAC brought in a whole lot of 430's which in the end had a very bad consequence when one of them threw a blade in flight.
A good friend of ours also lost his life, in Angola in a 430. The same guy had previously managed to land a 407 after its own tail rotor sailed and chopped off its own tail boom.