Originally Posted by
donut king
IIRC, 139 t/r blades issue. Back to this tragedy, it just 'appears' that several failures focused on MGB/ MGB area. Recall that a witness stated seeing a fire on top of the Norway 225 prior to ground contact.
And now the petition is over 20000 signatures. Have to respect the passengers (families) concerns.
Condolences to crew and pax families
Yes of course it is a sensitive area, and one can understand the relatives feelings, and those of other passengers, however I dislike seeing mob rule and hysteria borne out of ignorance and the stupid idea that a brand new helicopter is somehow safer than one with a few 100,000 hrs under its belt, determine a less safe course of action. If you look at the petition signatures I would suspect that most people signing have never even seen an EC225 in the flesh. It is the sort of thing that does the rounds on Farcebook and lots of folk looking for something to be righteously indignant about, but with zero knowledge, sign up to.