The rig worker, who did not want to be named, said:
“On approach to Sumburgh the chopper shook severely from side to side before lurching over to the left and plummeting from the air into the water and went over instantly."
“This all happened in a heartbeat. There was no ‘brace, brace, brace’ or mayday as it was so quick.”
I still have trouble with this statement given by one of the pax. If an aircraft is in bad visibility, the pax can't see out. They have no idea how high they are. Shaking? as in the feeling of vibration as you pass through ETL? the sudden contact with the water? it's going to roll around if the sea is even flat calm, then overturned by the sounds of things. Remember the ditching of the Bond aircraft? Didnt the pax say they didnt even realise they'd landed on water until they saw the sea surface outside of their door?
My point is that before people start hanging others out to dry, then maybe we should wait just a bit longer for the cvdr info?
Just because a statement doesn't say something in particular, you can't then just say well because it doesnt say one thing it MUST mean another.
