I've heard that at least one of the crew is no longer with Cougar. I hope this is not true, but if so this brings the following from the TSB report into their 2009 crash into question
IMO if the PIC has indeed been fired due to a "personal mistake" then surely the July 2010 G-SARC PIC should have expected the same action, or was that incident somehow deemed different due to no PAX? So much for progress...If the pilots had survived 491 would they have been looking at law suits or would it have been deemed an equipment failure? Difficult questions to answer...even harder to see how we are going to gain progress and lessons learned based on the response to the most recent event.
Here's a link again to the AAIB incident report to refresh memories.
Air Accidents Investigation: Sikorsky S-92A, G-SARC
Hopefully this TSB report will be produced relatively quickly and communicated to all in this industry in a proactive way.
Safe flying
Max