You had a very close call. Remind your pilot about the 230 Puma loss in Rhodesia in 1979, Op Agila.
We lost three good colleagues (Archie Cook, Mike Smith, Bob Hodges) to a wire strike on the main rotor head; they now lie in Odiham churchyard where we laid them. The wire was estimated by the BOI to have been 18 feet agl. The rotor head of as Puma is about 16 feet agl, iirc. The largest piece of wreckage was an engine oil cooler and the debris path was a quarter of a mile long.
