Another Helicopter ditches into the north sea....

Post by ed » Wed Apr 01, 2009 2:33 pm

with 16 people on board. Hope everyone involved is ok!

ChrisG · Post by **ChrisG** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 2:48 pm

I'm hearing some rumours, not sure this will be as good news as the last one that ditched.

tenkfeet · Post by **tenkfeet** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:01 pm

Did the last one not land on the see ? Never read the report . Hope all are ok .

ChrisG · Post by **ChrisG** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:07 pm

The last one was a 'controlled ditch' with no injuries.

Fingers crossed for today.

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:51 pm

ChrisG wrote:The last one was a 'controlled ditch' with no injuries.

Fingers crossed for today.

There was nothing controlled about it, the pilot flew it into the sea. He was just really lucky he was slow enough.

Not good news today

Hope they all got out.

Stevoraith · Post by **Stevoraith** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:57 pm

Yeah, for some reason it doesn't sound as if it will have as good an outcome as the last ditch.

Looking at the bond flight timetable, my best guess would be that it was enroute back from the Miller floating platform, but a flight to Schiehallion was also in the air at the same time (although thats a lot further away, west of Shetland).

Worrying times for those of us with friends and family offshore.

(Fortunately my wee bro is office based this week.)

foz01 · Post by **foz01** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:00 pm

hearing some very bad news about this sadly

ChrisG · Post by **ChrisG** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:02 pm

foz01 wrote:hearing some very bad news about this sadly

Yeah, same here. Not looking good I'm afraid.

Scotty C · Post by **Scotty C** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:10 pm

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-New ... tish_Coast

Not good.

Post by ed » Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:15 pm

Oh dear, thoughts go out to the families of those concerned. RIP.

Stevoraith · Post by **Stevoraith** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:22 pm

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:25 pm

Never good when these things happen. Kind of spooks you out a bit. I feel for them. It is a risk we all just accept and often take for granted.

tut · Post by **tut** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:53 pm

Been out so only just saw this.

First reaction was to phone in, but to be honest, I don't really want to know what happened or who the pilots are. Chances are that apart from half a dozen I would not know them now.

The cause of Mike Tweedies was as I thought, but it sounds as if this one was in the cruise, which points to a pretty catastrophic component failure.

tut

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 5:58 pm

Would have to be nothing short of a total gearbox/head fail I would imagine to take it out so quickly, a double engine fail (Very unlikely assuming they were the same as the RAF puma engines) would mean an unpleasant but controlled auto-rotate ditch.

The Puma's (Admittedly not super Pumas) I used to work with used to have would fly forever on one engine and even without a tail rotor as long as you had 30 odd knots or more of forward speed and the gearbox will run dry of oil for 20 mins or so before failing (In a terminal way) The transit van of the helicopter world.

Mikie711 · Post by **Mikie711** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:14 pm

Victor Meldrew wrote:It is a risk we all just accept and often take for granted.

Try very hard not to think about it TBH.

thoughts and prayer go out to the family's of those involved.

Scottish Elises

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