Couple of years ago at the end of a long day just heading out for our last flight- phone call
"We need you after you land on ABC to go to YYY unmanned platform to pick up a day crew the rest of your sched remains the same"
New flight log made, rig plate for YYY consulted.
Phoned sched ..co capt standing beside me .."Ok we are now doing ABC then YYY then DDD thence to BBB onwards to GTV then to base ..confirm?"
Sched "yes"
Off we thrundled to ABC ...while on the deck of ABC we got clearance to land on YYY which was only 2 miles away..took off and landed on YYY..flight attendant got out and came back to say nobody on the platform.
Called the infield platform that had given us landing clearance on YYY and said nobody was on the platform.
Reply after a long pause " Oh that crew is on platform YYY-2a"
Did a quick calc and we had the time and fuel to pick them up.
Did so.
The ponderous saftey system ground into motion ..incident entered...endless meetings..huge amounts of electrons used on emails..bow tie diagrams promulgated.. more info required ..this goes on for 2 months
Guess who got zapped for a wrong deck landing?
Last edited by albatross; 10th Jun 2016 at 22:37.