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Old 6th Nov 2016, 00:14
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The copilot, 'Low level Neville' Nixon (so nicknamed because he was a safe, cautious pilot), had been an offshore-based 212 pilot on the Brent but gave up flying to go and support his wife when she took over the pharmacy business where she was working when the owner retired. Sadly the business didn't prosper and Neville decided to return to flying not long before the accident. He joined BIH and was given a Chinook conversion and often used to chat with his old friends on the Treasure Finder when he was in the Brent area. I was chatting to him just before he departed to Sumburgh. Life's so unfair sometimes.
Pushp came out to Nigeria to fly for ACN and retired from there. When I first met him he explained how the pink patches of skin on his face were caused by fuel burns from the spilled fuel on the surface of the sea while he was waiting to be rescued. He was remarkably lucky to have survived such a catastrophic accident.
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