From the Irish Times article:
“Contingency plans are being put in place to resume the emergency aeromedical service as soon as possible,” said the Department of Defence.
I seriously hope not. They got away with it this time. Next time people could die. This accident happened on a fairly benign summer's day. Imagine the potential for disaster when more typical Irish weather is in place?
I did a differences course on the EC135 glass cockpit and on that course were two "Captains" from the IAC who were 'converting' to police ops. Between them, they had 200hrs FW and 10hrs helo
I was going to say 'unbelievable' but believable is more apt.
The recent accident report on the PC9 crash in Galway highlighted flaws in the safety ethos of the Air Corps. As a result there was attempt by the Air Corps to suppress the report or those parts which they didn't like.
The IACs farcebook page likes to play up it's air ambulance missions but it's notably blank on this incident this morning.