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Ditching a helicopter: (incl pictures)

Old 17th Jan 2015, 06:20
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That first one looks like an S76. I really wonder what happened there, sounds like an engine spooling down?
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Old 17th Jan 2015, 08:10
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And then spooling back up, just before it hit the water?
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Old 17th Jan 2015, 09:21
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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".

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Old 17th Jan 2015, 09:35
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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.
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Old 17th Jan 2015, 09:42
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And then spooling back up, just before it hit the water?
And then it's not an AB helicopter, then surely no technical faults, could it be pilot error?
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Old 18th Jan 2015, 02:04
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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
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Old 18th Jan 2015, 02:09
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Some comments on the Malaysian "bad luck".
Whilst there may be some truth in the discussion in the article, I think it's a stretch to associate it with any of the accidents referred to: We have no idea what happened to MH370 so how can we discuss the crew's actions? MH17 could have been a number of other carriers in the area, and appears to have been a case of Russian roulette - literally! The Air Asia crew were Indonesian and French, so the Malaysian argument is irrelevant!
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Old 18th Jan 2015, 03:00
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Yer pinch me post John?
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