Omni H160 Down - Brazil
 

https://sbtnews.sbt.com.br/noticia/b...-litoral-do-rj

Hearing all evacuated and rescued

Statement here. All persons recovered and safe.

OMNI Taxi Aereo aircraft incident near Cabo Frio, Brazil - Omni Helicopters International

PR-OFB.

Great to see a good outcome. Looks like they got the two rafts tethered together.

Has ‘ditching’ permanently morphed into ‘water landing’? They really aren’t the same thing.

I’m not sure that the change in terminology is fooling anyone.

I infer that after a water "landing" a takeoff from the water will be easily possible within the aircraft's capabilities. Ditching, not so much...

Exactly. Since an S76 had a ‘water landing’ in Nigeria, the term seems to be in vogue, as if it is somehow less of an event than a ‘ditching.’

Looking at the way the main rotor blades are sagging down in the still photo on the news item linked in #1, take-off will not be "easily possible"! Question is whether that occurred on initial touchdown or while rocking around in the sea thereafter?

Anyway, good outcome.

If you have to ditch, those are the conditions to do it in. Glad all are safe.

New members for the "Goldfish Club"

skadi

Design an aircraft for water take-offs and you can do a water landing - anything else is a ditching:ok:

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e818ac6425.jpg
H160-B PR-OFB

Source: https://aeroin.net/veja-como-ficou-o...io-de-janeiro/

First signs are a 960 ft/min climb 250 ft above cruise and a deceleration:

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....5fd6e82f55.png

Slows down to a minimum of 43 kts:
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....a9923b7bb4.png


Reaches 5,000 ft/min at one point

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....0c66466e19.png

With the fenestron half submerged like that, would you even want to try and start and launch?? :rolleyes:

true, might make a great speedboat like that :E

Perfect bow thruster!

Well done by all concerned.
Any rumours as to cause of the decision to “Ditch”?

Is it just me or do the main rotor blades look too close together here?
Has 1 blade pin failed maybe?


https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....8c02b4cca3.jpg