Originally Posted by
Pilot DAR
If the pilots of a Cougar S-92 flight off Newfoundland were instructed to crash (ditch) the helicopter rather than "land immediately" they would be alive.
You could equally argue that if the crew had obeyed the "land immediately" stipulation in the RFM ("Ditching or landing in hazardous terrain is preferable to continuing flight") they would have survived, too.
Originally Posted by
birmingham
Can we agree on accident? (albeit a minor one) That is how AH categorises it. And it will clearly be subject to an AAIB investigation
I wouldn't pay too much attention to how AH categorises an event, but in this case it almost certainly satisfies the Annex 13 definition of an accident (which is dependent on the degree of structural damage sustained).