Originally Posted by
MaxReheat
Just thinking about the survivability of a crash such as this (aside form the initial impact) is it SOP for the passengers to wear immersion suits on the Morecombe Bay flights?
Immersion suits (and lifejackets) are worn on ALL (rig) flights over water. This aspect has been stressed by the CHC company representatives. Recovery crews say that the lifejackets weren't inflated, and that all fatalities were due to impact injuries and not drowning.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6213719.stm
"Even if the helicopter turned upside down, all the people that travel in these things get trained in a 'dunker', which is basically a cage in a swimming pool where they practise escape. They would all have wetsuits, they would all have life-jackets."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6214283.stm