Two points on the latest AIBN report ...
(1) I may be naive but these latest updates from AIBN have rather shocked me. Not because of what they reveal but in respect to the original AH statement about the suspension assembly. I genuinely believed that to put that out with all its inevitable effects AH must have had access to the engineering equivalent of a smoking gun. If AH have made a genuine mistake they should explain why and clarify why they made those remarks on their website. Some folks at CHC must have been through hell because of it.
(2) It confirms that systems for detecting fatigue cracks don't always work as required and without further design modifications that the Super Puma remains unsafe to fly. These will presumably be applied at some stage in the military versions but the civil version? Is there the demand or will this machine now be retired? It's reputation is clearly utterly beyond repair in the NS whatever AH do now.
Last edited by birmingham; 29th Jun 2016 at 08:17.