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Old 1st Apr 2009, 07:28
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212man
 
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We would not have found 'Transmission Deck Fire' in the S61 RFM although maybe after the Lee SAR incident it is now included
Geoff, as you know, nothing is new in aviation.....

http://www.aaib.gov.uk/sites/aaib/cm...0%20G-BEID.pdf

For those who are such ardent 61 supporters, and for another taste of life in the 70s and 80s, here's another one that happened 4 months later:

http://www.aaib.gov.uk/sites/aaib/cm...0%20G-BDES.pdf

I think that although both are unrelated failure modes, they illustrate the sorts of timescales we may be faced with in these kinds of emergencies, and that in reality these kinds of failures do not lend themselves well to emergency checklists....
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