Originally Posted by
courtney
The procedure in those conditions would be to slow down, mantain visual referrences and if necessary land on the beach, so why didn't they?
I only managed 2000 hrs as a Puma Crewman but in every single case of bad weather encountered every single front end I was crewed with did exactly as you suggest.
When you consider the experience levels of this 4 man crew, let's not forget the crewmen would have been involved what was happening, I am at a total loss as to why this accident happened.
If it was a low speed impact I could maybe understand but to stood in at full tilt simply does not fit with any SH methodology I ever came across.