SAR in Malaysia
The first of the nice new Dauphins for the MMEA has arrived in the country this week. Maybe these will help with the SAR situation once they are operational.
I have not heard any reports about a Nuri or Mi17 helping with the rescue of survivors in any of the accidents that have happened with offshore helicopters over the last couple of years. Does anyone know if a SAR aircraft was even launched on those occasions?
It is rather sad if the Nuri's still do not carry a descent automatic Crash Position Indicator beacon. Most of the offshore helicopters carry several CPIs, including in the crew lifejackets, and nowadays those also transmit on 406Mhz so can be located by SARSAT. In theory these would make it possible to locate a missing aircraft even in hilly terrain.