Accident to 658 Sqdn AAC Dauphin?
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Accident to 658 Sqdn AAC Dauphin?
Does anyone have any information about the circumstances of the apparent loss of a 658 Sqdn AAC AS365N3 Dauphin ZJ781 on 16 June 2022?
This was posted on "Fighter Control" yesterday:
Article released today, looks like ZJ781 was 'damaged beyond repair' on 16/6/2022.
https://helihub.com/2023/08/03/uk-army- ... -accident/
Article released today, looks like ZJ781 was 'damaged beyond repair' on 16/6/2022.
https://helihub.com/2023/08/03/uk-army- ... -accident/
IMHO given it wasn't announced at the time and who could have been onboard, what they might have been doing, and potentially where they were doing it, I doubt any information will be put into the public domain in the near future for OPSEC reasons. I may be wildly wrong though.
I hope no one lost their lives or suffered life changing injuries.
HeliHub.com contacted the UK Ministry of Defence, who confirmed that this aircraft had an accident on 16th June 2022
I gather a wheels up landing then roll over
Daisies must`ve looked very `big`....
Standards must have fallen since I was teaching them.......
Originally Posted by [email protected]
Very prescient of you, the OP posted earlier depending on your time zone.
658 has had a mixed bag of incidents in recent years - some due to the lowering levels of experience across the whole AAC
658 has had a mixed bag of incidents in recent years - some due to the lowering levels of experience across the whole AAC
As a community we have been dealing with that since the first time wheels were made waggly. Experience doesn't normally come into the equation as much as distraction, task saturation, etc. although experience does give the grey hairs to be aware of approaching such conditions, mainly because it's been done before.
"we made it 100 yards further than last time" as the beaver pilot said to his passengers, unstrapping from the wreckage wrapped in the trees around the Canadian lake.
Our check and trainer flew Mustangs and Meteors in Korea and unfortunately landed a 76 gear up, pulled into hover and put them down, only damage being belly mounted antenna pushed through the skin. John Deakin, the worlds highest hour 747 pilot, has a good story of nearly landing a 747 gear up at LAX, crew were all check and trainers, don't matter who you are it can happen to you.
And it would appear that the experience level in the cockpit was very high in this case so it can happen to anyone...
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