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Old 2nd Jan 2009, 12:26
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I used to work with a guy called Geoff Fish who was a helicopter pilot during the war. He used to recount a tale of a mechanical failure which lead to his helicopter crash landing in a pond. I've tried googling this in order to find out more info but I drew a blank so can anyone on PPRuNe add any details?
Helicopter was a Scout AH1, full details and a photo of the aircraft sitting in the pond are in 'Falklands, The Air War', which I don't have access of at the minute.
According to some British reports, after the May 30th attack, many SH were lunch to try to intercet the intruders. There are also reports about the lunching of 5 Sea Dart that day from the HMS Invincible.
Invincible did fire three salvos of Sea Dart on 25th May at an unknown high speed contact a few minutes after the Exocet strike which resulted in the loss of Atlantic Conveyor. Only Sea Darts fired on the 30th were by HMS Exeter

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