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H225 down in Korea
It would appear that an Airbus H225 has crashed into the ocean.
https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/art...newsIdx=278051 |
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Sad news and tragic for the families of those involved.
I think Airbus may have some difficult questions to answer - again. |
Police officers were watching the chopper after takeoff because it began to fly unsteadily at a low altitude and in a skewed direction. They said the helicopter crashed after flying about 200 meters |
Originally Posted by megan
(Post 10608793)
I know we love to theorise, take off with no stab engaged? What is the handling like on the 225 in that case?
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Originally Posted by HeliComparator
(Post 10608846)
Pretty wobbly, just like any other helicopter (without a stabiliser bar). But with the 225 you engage the autopilot after start and leave it engaged until you are going to shut down. Or at least that’s what you should do!
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A "finger fault" disconnecting the SAS is easy to imagine, but a SAR crew crashing an aircraft after take off at VMC and no turbulence is very, very surprising...
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Midnight after the sliver moon had already set, shoreline helipad into the inky black. Nothing VMC about it. Should have been routine for a SAR crew, so something went sideways. |
They found the fuselage and are attempting to recover the crew/passengers... any news if the rotor and top case landed with the rest of the aircraft?
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Originally Posted by malabo
(Post 10609174)
Midnight after the sliver moon had already set, shoreline helipad into the inky black. Nothing VMC about it. Should have been routine for a SAR crew, so something went sideways. :ugh: |
Originally Posted by SplineDrive
(Post 10609185)
They found the fuselage and are attempting to recover the crew/passengers... any news if the rotor and top case landed with the rest of the aircraft?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/worl...-off-disputed/ |
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Further update dragging lumps of parts to the surface.
2 bodies from crashed Dokdo chopper retrieved - The Korea Herald |
Originally Posted by SplineDrive
(Post 10609185)
They found the fuselage and are attempting to recover the crew/passengers... any news if the rotor and top case landed with the rest of the aircraft?
Even with all the gizmos on board Occam's Razor would give a clear direction where this will be going. Whatever the detailed circumstances will have been. |
"Seven passengers were aboard: one person with a cut finger, five rescue officers and a friend of the injured person."
I'm gobsmacked. A night SAR deployment for somebody with a cut finger. Surely not. |
Originally Posted by gulliBell
(Post 10609817)
"Seven passengers were aboard: one person with a cut finger, five rescue officers and a friend of the injured person."
I'm gobsmacked. A night SAR deployment for somebody with a cut finger. Surely not. |
Originally Posted by 212man
(Post 10609848)
The first article said a severed thumb, but still in no way justifying a night MEDEVAC! |
Originally Posted by 212man
(Post 10609848)
The first article said a severed thumb, but still in no way justifying a night MEDEVAC! skadi |
Originally Posted by 212man
(Post 10609848)
The first article said a severed thumb, but still in no way justifying a night MEDEVAC! |
Originally Posted by ShyTorque
(Post 10609967)
It doesn't surprise me. In my (pre-NVG) SAR days I was called to more than a few highly exaggerated, allegedly "life or death" cases. One involved going single pilot to a wire infested, unlit site in the hills on a moonless night to rescue a drunk who turned out to have a relatively minor cut on his hand, self induced on a broken beer bottle. Another involved a jungle landing to a soldier with an alleged broken spine. Having risked the aircraft and crew, the patient walked out normally with the rest of his platoon and climbed on the aircraft unaided. A third involved rescuing a "very seriously ill" sailor some 85 miles offshore from a fishing boat. On reaching him, he was stiff as a board and had obviously died the day before. We were probably called to avoid the boat having to dock or continue trying to fish with a cadaver on board, the latter being considered a bad omen. |
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