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Bristow S76 crash
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 6:02 pm
by tut
I don't know if anybody else heard of this as nothing was posted. The aircraft went down in Nigeria six days ago with twelve on board, six killed including the two pilots.
Can not believe nothing was posted in the news either on line or on TV, if it was I missed it.
tut
Re: Bristow S76 crash
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 7:35 pm
by JohnStewart
There wasn't anything on the TV about it, but quite a bit of coverage of the news websites. I have quite a few friends on Facebook who work overseas in the industry, who posted up the links.
Most disturbing was one that showed a lot of smoke billowing from the engine area that must have been taken seconds before it hit the water
Re: Bristow S76 crash
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 8:25 pm
by Scotty C
You need to be on evening express or p&j facebook. I knew about it on the beach in St Lucia
Re: Bristow S76 crash
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 8:42 pm
by tut
Suppose it was just a bit more applicable to me as I flew the S76 for Bristows for thirteen years.
tut
Re: Bristow S76 crash
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 6:35 pm
by keevster
Yiup seen photos of the wreckage. Not what you need to be seeing the day you go offshore!
Re: Bristow S76 crash
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 3:24 pm
by tut
Another S76 gone under in the Gulf of Finland, 14 on board, all dead trapped inside.
tut
Re: Bristow S76 crash
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 9:19 pm
by kerryxeg
tut wrote:Another S76 gone under in the Gulf of Finland, 14 on board, all dead trapped inside.
tut
Are you getting historical links? There was a S76 crash in Finland in 2005, 14 fatalities
Re: Bristow S76 crash
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 10:50 pm
by steve_weegie
Tut in "I think I'm 65 again" shocker....
Re: Bristow S76 crash
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 9:57 am
by tenkfeet
kerryxeg wrote:tut wrote:Another S76 gone under in the Gulf of Finland, 14 on board, all dead trapped inside.
tut
Are you getting historical links? There was a S76 crash in Finland in 2005, 14 fatalities
I looked when I first read this and tinternet news was showing it as 2015, though I never read the article date. Ok now.
Re: Bristow S76 crash
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 10:13 am
by tut
Yes it was 2005, I am on PPRuNe.org and someone had added the findings of the accident report onto the post of the Lagos crash, so the date read 2015.
tut
Re: Bristow S76 crash
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 10:29 am
by Sanjøy
Re: Bristow S76 crash
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 10:36 am
by tut
When I was flying the 212 on the North Sea, I had a co-pilot who used to say the following Prayer just before hitting the Start Button.
"Oh Lord, Please forgive me for flying this Bell Built, Bristow Maintained, piece of sh*t!".
He is happily retired now so looks as if prayer can work.
tut
Re: Bristow S76 crash
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 10:45 am
by Dominic
@Sanj
Re: Bristow S76 crash
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 11:43 am
by tut
Que?
We did land on the Moon so not sure what the joke is.
tut