It is what happens when you take a corporate helicopter and try to turn it into a SAR machine - was nothing learned from the 139?????
Heli 1 - I've landed the Wessex and the Sea King in plenty of places that the 139/189 just couldn't have managed - the last thing you need on a SAR job is to be hamstrung by a poorly designed undercarriage.
The 139 is currently operated in SAR role in more than 80 units around the world.
Some of them fly in the Alps where sites like the highest British mountain is mererly a high ground or small hill. In these places Sea Kings have never been seen.