Flight Man Supplement 14 (Flotation gear) says " Emergency ditching is authorised with the landing gear extended or retracted"
Apparently it was floating upside down for a while (minus tailboom) whilst they spent 5 hours carrying out a risk assessment on recovery (you can't be too careful you know), now its sunk.
HC
ps - now know it didn't sink yet!
Last edited by HeliComparator; 20th Feb 2009 at 07:49.
Reason: False rumour