A CRUCIAL water bombing helicopter was grounded during the NSW bushfire crisis because authorities claimed it needed an American crew to operate it.
The state-of-the-art Erickson skycrane was sitting at Bankstown Airport with The Sunday Telegraph told it required special engineers and staff to get it off the ground.
Well, it IS N-registered, so at best would require American LICENSED crew.
As for the "special" Engineers, I guess being qualified and more importantly, being employed by the operator, would qualify them as "special".
Sounds like a journalist that is low on column inches and high on verbiage to me.