Originally Posted by
SASless
I love it....Year 2016....Billions spent using every method possible to forecast/detect/warn/minimize wear and failures....and now we finally learn it was for naught.
So just where do we go from here?
Just how do we square this circle and wind up with helicopters that just do not come apart in the air without sufficient notice to prevent tragedies such as this latest one?
I mean really....just when we thought it safe to go outdoors we discover we can be ambushed by an inanimate piece of machinery at any time it decides to give up the Ghost.
SASless - that is exactly the point.
Every single heavy helicopter ever used in the NS sea has gone in the water somewhere due to gearbox issues of one form or another -
Wessex-Chinook-S61-L2-225-S92... and if I have missed any then I'm sure they probably did too.
The industry has decided this happens too often - I agree - but wringing our hands, banning pumas or forming committees isn't going to stop it happening again.
What do the Puma/S92 engineers on this forum think can be done to minimise the likelyhood of this happening again (on a regular basis)