And the design strategy that means you can't inflate the floats until AFTER you ditch seems ludicrous for a "best in class" helicopter
I'm pretty sure I would ignore that bit of the RFM!
I can't help feeling that if the crew with the first vespel spline problem had followed the RFM and ditched, and if the S92 plopping unscathed into a clearing in Borneo (thank heavens for deforestation) had been flying over the N Sea, it might be the S92 that has the bad social media profile
Agreed - in fact there was a second emergency landing in Brunei too, 4 months after the one you describe (vespel spline failure followed by churning). It was on its way to Bandar airport to take a senior manager offshore and landed 7 nm short in a chicken farm!