It would have been another aviation disaster in Brass yesterday when the Red Dauphin helo 'collected' some high tension cable on take-off en route to Port Harcourt. It was evident that the crew were not aware of the strike despite the vibration encountered en route the near 60Nm trip that-'NIL DEFECTS' was written on the tech log as usual.
It was the engineer on turn around maintenance that found the almost one meter cable 'glued' to the main rotor blade with some damages to the vertical fenestron. It was a miraclous escape!
NCAA officials from the accident investigation department were seen around today in NAF Base on investigation. Later the blue A star flew in the Caverton bigwigs to inspect the helo.
Last two weeks too a helicopter belonging to Aero/CHC was also involved in an accident while on training mission in Bonny
.Less than a month ago, it will be recalled that an aeroplane en route to Obudu was declared missing to date. One is still wondering what must have caused the incident.