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Old 2nd Jun 2016, 17:18
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212man
 
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Did you read my post? THE COMPLETE ROTOR HEAD HAS DEPARTED NOT ONCE, BUT TWO TIMES ON THE PUMA!!!
Actually, it's three times, when you include the Bristow AS330J flying from Miri to Brunei in the early '80s (with Shell wives on a shopping trip). The MGB was making metal but the Chief Engineer didn't know his 'square mm' from his 'mm squared' when monitoring the debris being collected by the chip detectors.

I know of 5 incidents with the S92 where, in very slightly different circumstances, the crews would have ditched due to MGB problems. Instead they landed on unmanned platforms with closed decks, coast line, jungle and a chicken farm, so are not very familiar to the offshore workforce. All of that in the first 700,000 flying hours and ignoring the fatal accident.

The Sumburgh accident was caused by automation mismanagement and inadequate monitoring. In Norway an S92 came very close to spearing into the ground above Vne - due to automation mismanagement whilst flying an ILS in IMC. But didn't so nobody knows about it!

Bottom line is that HeliComparator's comments are accurate, and logic and statistics should prevail over emotion and ignorance (of the actual facts).
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