A Brief extract from this evenings Dorset Echo
Safety fears on new rescue helicopter
8:50amFriday 24th October 2008
South Dorset MP Jim Knight said: “I have been encouraging Transport Minister Jim Fitzpatrick to ensure the MCA and its contractors are urgently dealing with this so the new aircraft are working to their full potential.”
A spokesman for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said night cover was being provided by other aircraft supplied by the contractor ‘until such time issues with the new aircraft are resolved’.
He added the contract with the company providing the helicopter service ends in 2012 and there were no plans to end it, but he stressed: “There is a scheme in place which allows deductions to be made for non-performance which will be used in this respect. Should the problems escalate and progress is not forthcoming we will be seeking measures which allows a last resort of termination of the contract.”
Gulp!! Where may we get aircraft, crews, engineers should such a thing happen?
