Survivor statement
The survivor (Alberto Elvira) has reported:
1. They had finished the training sortie with the boat. Swimmer was back in his seat, strapped in. Door was close, and he was tidying up the cabin after the exercise.
2. There was no emergency or warning in the cockpit/cabin prior to the impact. All of a sudden he just found himself in the water, while the helicopter was underwater, going down.
Actual fact? Post-traumatic amnesia?
3. Then there was little he could do in terms of attempting to rescue anybody else in the sinking fuselage, so eventually he jumped into one raft that had deployed (during the impact?). Fired flares and awaited to be rescued. He had developed hypothermia by the time he was rescued.
Alberto was discharged from hospital on 24th Jan 2010
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