'Brown and Alcock' said ...
The facts so far.
Mayday - as yet unconfirmed whether this came from A/C or oil support vessel.
Rescue - was launched immediately by RIB.
The A/C appears to have broken up on contact with the sea. This does not appear to be a controlled ditching. It may not have been survivable according to eye witnesses.
Super Puma - Bond have temp grounded all Puma as a precuation. The accident earlier this year appears to be wholly unrelated save that it involved same operator and same type. This is not surpising when you consider number of flights flown per day out of ABZand the Numbers of Puma in use.
We can hardly call these
facts, "unconfirmed", "appears", "same type"???
It was not the same type. And the harsh reality is this, whilst BP have relieved Bond of their contractual obligations for the time being, BP employees are still being moved to and from the North sea on L2 machines, albeit L2's painted in a different colour.
The two incidents involved different AC types, and vastly different circumstances.
People like us working in the business understand the differences, but Joe Public - watching the 'expert' media coverage - only see Red aircraft in the water.
