Hi All, Seeing it is a rumour forum - and I filmed the rescue.
The story I heard (2nd/3rd hand) of the original incident was that the snorkel (after getting caught) flew up and hit the MR blade - damage was not good (but only one blade was hit). Horizontal stab got a 'whack' as well. At the time, heard nothing about the incident, but the rescue became public knowledge. Wouldn't mind hearing the pilots story - must have been an interesting flight and landing.
The 212 did get 'dragged' through the top of a small tree during the initial part of the lift, but came free and flew fine after that. The (faily strong) wind dropped / swirled at a critical moment. Damage from that was a cracked chinbubble, bent front step and a door handled damaged, I believe.
Was interesting to watch - for a moment I thought it might get 'really' spectacular. 214 pilot handled it well.
