EC145 ditching Ushuaia
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EC145 ditching Ushuaia
EC 145 off "Octopus" gets wet.
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145? might be 117 shown here perhaps.
Aircraft N245AF, Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh MBB-BK 117 C-2 C/N 9322
Aircraft N245AF, Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh MBB-BK 117 C-2 C/N 9322
What Eurocopter calls a "Model 145" is really under the skin (and on the TC) just a modernized model 117 C-2. Kind of/sort of like Hughes did with the 369/500. Kind of.
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Mmmmm .....
..... What Eurocopter calls a "Model 145" is really under the skin (and on the TC) just a modernized model 117 C-2. .....
So? ..... This one is still an EC 145
..... What Eurocopter calls a "Model 145" is really under the skin (and on the TC) just a modernized model 117 C-2. .....
So? ..... This one is still an EC 145
Hi,
looks like they towed the bird in the first video
and looks like it had turned over on the second video.
Seems, someone has money to spare :-(
Best thing to do is to fill the inside, i.e. with a dinghy and attach other floating devices on the outside - so it won´t flip over.
Then it´s time to think about, how to get it home and out of the water.
But they aren´t the first ones who screwed up - a navy I know dragged a ditched Lynx, so that ist submerged for ever.....
Greetings Flying Bull
looks like they towed the bird in the first video
and looks like it had turned over on the second video.
Seems, someone has money to spare :-(
Best thing to do is to fill the inside, i.e. with a dinghy and attach other floating devices on the outside - so it won´t flip over.
Then it´s time to think about, how to get it home and out of the water.
But they aren´t the first ones who screwed up - a navy I know dragged a ditched Lynx, so that ist submerged for ever.....
Greetings Flying Bull
Associated Press Report
' A helicopter crew had a slight mishap as it was preparing to pick up Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen for a trip to Antarctica'
A 'slight' mishap??
A 'slight' mishap??
To be fair... The chances of successfully getting a helicopter out of the water, unless you happen to have a crane and a salvage crew immediately to hand are limited.
It's Hobson's choice - Either try to secure or tow it, in which case you stand a really good chance of turning it over (but keeping it at least), or leave it and wait for specialist help in which case it is likely to sink, or at least turn over, before specialist help is available.
There was a pretty fair swell there - i suspect that it would not have stayed upright or even afloat unaided for very long.
Damned if you do - damned if you don't
It's Hobson's choice - Either try to secure or tow it, in which case you stand a really good chance of turning it over (but keeping it at least), or leave it and wait for specialist help in which case it is likely to sink, or at least turn over, before specialist help is available.
There was a pretty fair swell there - i suspect that it would not have stayed upright or even afloat unaided for very long.
Damned if you do - damned if you don't
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Update from Dow Jones -
"At around 8:10 a.m. this morning [6:10 a.m. EDT] the helicopter took off and apparently hit an antennae on the yacht, forcing the pilots to land in the water," Hector Vera, an official in charge of the nearby coast guard station in the port of Ushuaia, said in a phone interview.