Nigerian President's Helicopter....trashed!
 

This one lasted a bit longer than did some of their Hinds.

Nigerian Air Force crashes presidential helicopter | Defense Watch






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Well, they were described as being "transport-roled." Looks like that one was indeed rolled, so mission accomplished!

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I/C

:D:D

Mission accomplished!!
:p:p

The link states "AW101 medium lift"
This AW is lifting anything anymore!

Cheers SLB

Oh dear. Memories of Osubi and that planned Hind official maiden flight with the argument between aircraft and kerb...........

The kerb won :uhoh:

No kerb nearby this time ?

NEO

NEO.....was it Osubi?

All that Gulder has gotten to my alcohol ravaged Brain.....there I was thinking it was Port Harcourt!

I guess there were plenty of witnesses to that one!

The Nigerian Air Force does have a certain flair to their flight ops don't they?

The C-130 crash was a real tragedy.

Sas,

Yup, Osubi. The pilot quietly resigned his commission afterwards and came to my operation. He had been hired through Lagos based on a personal "recommendation" by the Chief Of Air Staff. One of those offers that can't be refused........

He never made it into the right hand seat and left a few years later to go into politics somewhere up North. He had also taken a bullet in the foot during the infamous bus ambush incident. A truly unlucky guy !

NEO

NEO,

As I remember it was a "flock" of MI-35's that flew in to refuel in Osubi and one took a shortcut from the taxiway to the ramp in Osubi, got stuck with a wheel in the storm drain and when trying to get out managed to roll the aircraft?
212man will be able to correct me if I'm wrong, he was around at that time as well.

Cheers,

Finalchecksplease

final,

Absolutely right. The entire "flock" were there, with various political bigwigs and defence Oggas spectating. That made it all the more embarrassing.

NEO

Thank heavens that it wasn't due to crew capabilities. So this is Leonardo's fault, then?

I was in WT at the time flying in & out of Osubi.
Saw it all before and after.
But Chuks, sitting in his Dornier, saw it happen before his own eyes!
The Hind's that is.

So how much coin will that cost them - what's the price of one of those?

tartare,

A lot, but they don't care. Money is no object to those at the top.

NEO

Quick search on aircompare:
$18.2 Million

SLB

Here is a quote found after a quick search on google. It appears the AW101 is very much a disposable airframe in them there parts. Nothing to see here appears to be the official line. :ugh:


"Nigerian Air Force, PRO, Group Captain Dele Famuyiwa, has denied the report that one of the aircraft crashed.:eek:


“It was not a crash. I wouldn’t call it a crash because it just fell on the ground in Makurdi.”


“I can say maybe it was an incident. You know accident is a higher degree of incidence. It was just an occurrence that did not take any life or equipment. Cars can malfunction and the same thing with any machine.”
He said the crash was not as a result of low training and skill of crew member noting that the same crew had managed the aircraft at the presidency."

Since an S-92 is $30m I doubt that a 101 is $18.2m

Same story all over the place in Africa.....

They never fail to understand (and accept) that the "expensive white guy" is not only there because he´s white-but mainly because he has 30+ years of EXPERIENCE, where their own pilots have none.....

hueyracer

So you were flying at the age of 10?! It is not 'white' at all - it is the Western schooling, education, training and that experience you mention of working in a reasonably efficient operation, probably in diverse aviation roles. I know there are many non-white persons, having had a similar upbringing, who are perfectly capable pilots. And I know of some white pilots who are pretty average.

Yes, it was the entire fleet of 6 that stopped by at Ray-FK International, on their way to NAF Base PH. I believe he was late to taxy and so took a short cut to try and catch up for departure. The irony was that most of us on first acquaintance with the new airport couldn't help but comment on the risk posed by the open drains surrounding the apron! The covers arrived soon after the incident. For years later, if you took a stroll around the grassy areas, after cutting, you could find pieces of 'shrapnel' lying around......

So how much coin will that cost them - what's the price of one of those?


I am not sure how much the purchase price is, but I have heard it was insured for Euro 48,500,000.