Puma incident at ABZ Today
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Puma reject
If you get a bang and vibration which forces you to make the decision to reject then where you stop is where everybody gets off. This is what happened on the day.
PPS - you are right, unfortunately in this case HUMS would not have picked up the problem until after the crack let go - by which time it was pretty obvious to the pilots!
lynx - they made the very good decision to shut down immediately. By chance they had started to transition on a cross runway, so they rejected the takeoff and stopped clear of the main runway and right outside the airport fire station, which I guess is as good a place to park as any under the circumstances. There is a picture in the Eurocopter alert telex, which you can download from Eurocopter's TIPI website (though you have to be registered).
HC
lynx - they made the very good decision to shut down immediately. By chance they had started to transition on a cross runway, so they rejected the takeoff and stopped clear of the main runway and right outside the airport fire station, which I guess is as good a place to park as any under the circumstances. There is a picture in the Eurocopter alert telex, which you can download from Eurocopter's TIPI website (though you have to be registered).
HC
