PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - UK Maritime Patrol Aircraft - An Urgent Requirement
Old 6th Nov 2014, 11:16
  #803 (permalink)  
Heathrow Harry
 
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: London
Posts: 7,072
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
OCean Way

How would an MMA have helped the "Ocean Way"??

She issued a Mayday and sank in minutes - the crew were in the water but two seem to never have got out as they were sleeping below

The helicopter was there directly -the crew weren't wearing life jackets

Unless you dropped a life raft that they were capable of getting into or (a la Japanese AF) land on the water an MMA could only film them in the water

I doubt the time difference between a chopper and an MMA flying 100 miles off the coast would be really significant
Heathrow Harry is offline