Ditching a helicopter: (incl pictures)
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"Apparently" it collided with the sea in "bad weather" "apparently"
ATSB helping out as investigation still "open".
9M-STE S-76C MHS on Petronas seismic job.
Good luck with finding much more info - pax were from France, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Canada.
MHS don't seem to have had much luck like their airline counterparts. Disproportionate number seem to end up in the Ogen.
Some comments on the Malaysian "bad luck".
ATSB helping out as investigation still "open".
9M-STE S-76C MHS on Petronas seismic job.
Good luck with finding much more info - pax were from France, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Canada.
MHS don't seem to have had much luck like their airline counterparts. Disproportionate number seem to end up in the Ogen.
Some comments on the Malaysian "bad luck".
You can only understand as much as your culture will allow.
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From: uk
sorry to say it but that approach to the ship in video 1 doesnt appear to be a very good one at all. looks way too slow, looks way too low. If he'd flown a normal profile instead of hanging around to the side, he may have made it to the deck when the donkey quit. Only my personal opinion from the video footage. But what do i know as ive only landed offshore a few times.
I'd love to know who teaches this sort of approach.
I'd love to know who teaches this sort of approach.
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From: Den Haag
I don't think it's the engine spooling up - I think it's the decayed Nr recovering when the collective is lowered, once on the water.
The engine winds down in a pefect place to have landed on the deck! Any sooner and they would have been commited to the water (with the slow shallow approach). The captain took the controls off the co-pilot and flew it away from the deck!
The aircraft sank because they hadn't armed the floats 
The submerged aircraft got dragged by the seismic array for about 2km.
The guy taking the video (Finnish) just went to work and did his 28 day stint, once rescued
The engine winds down in a pefect place to have landed on the deck! Any sooner and they would have been commited to the water (with the slow shallow approach). The captain took the controls off the co-pilot and flew it away from the deck!
The aircraft sank because they hadn't armed the floats The submerged aircraft got dragged by the seismic array for about 2km.The guy taking the video (Finnish) just went to work and did his 28 day stint, once rescued
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From: Den Haag
Some comments on the Malaysian "bad luck".
