My local rag has had an interview with the co-pilot and it is scarry reading!!
Crew on board were .. Mike Roughton, Simon Hoare, Peter Mansell and Adrian " Buck " Rogers.
Co - pilot Mike Roughton described it as a " catastrophic failure"
He said " We train for emergencies but usually would expect to be dealing with only one thing". " We suddenly had four or five things happen one after another in the space of a minute!"
"It started with the failure of number 2 engine,then the pressure from the main rotor gear box disapeared. Then the hydraulics started to fail and as we were trying to get in to land ,there was an indication that the other engine had failed."
"There was some sort of catastrophic failure and the speed of events was very alarming".
" It was very scary and we were lucky that we were close to land otherwise we would have ditched."
" We managed to get it down but there were flames coming from around the rotor,it was like a chimney!"
lady luck and first class training me thinks.