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markmullen
Original Poster
12,392 posts
103 months
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Channel 4 twitter is reporting a controlled ditching of a helictoper in the North Sea with 14 on board, now in a liferaft.
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markmullen
Original Poster
12,392 posts
103 months
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Pete102
423 posts
55 months
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Sounds like a controlled landing on water...well done that pilot if so! I'm due offshore next week...great 
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onyx39
3,448 posts
19 months
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Quoted from Pprune:
Latest on the BBC is that they set it down after receiving a MRGB 'low oil press' warning.
Bearing in mind the failure that brought that last Puma down......their action sounds very wise.
Good call I say!
Bearing in mind these things happen in threes, glad I'm not flying anytime soon!
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Pete102
423 posts
55 months
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Thanks for that....indo crash....this one...
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Oily Nails
2,633 posts
69 months
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onyx39
3,448 posts
19 months
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I am guessing the aircraft is now just an expensive hunk of scrap metal?
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rhinochopig
16,050 posts
67 months
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Quick question for those that work offshore. Do you have anything like a 'spare-air' on your survival rig in case you ditch and the helo overturns? http://www.spareair.com/
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chrisj_abz
744 posts
54 months
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rhinochopig said: Quick question for those that work offshore. Do you have anything like a 'spare-air' on your survival rig in case you ditch and the helo overturns? http://www.spareair.com/similar, theres a rebreather system built into the lifejacket that you deploy when you land on the water. http://www.sharkgroup.co.uk/survival_airpocketplus...this incident just shows how good the training is!
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Semi hemi
1,677 posts
67 months
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rhinochopig said: Quick question for those that work offshore. Do you have anything like a 'spare-air' on your survival rig in case you ditch and the helo overturns? http://www.spareair.com/We have a rebreather system, you have to breath into it to charge it. A bit of a scutter, yet to hear from anyone who has deployed one in anger. Did my Canadian Survival in Halifax NS and there its a charged airbottle. TBH it would depend where I was sat in the Helicopter in relation to an exit wether I would be relying on it
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Crafty_
4,525 posts
69 months
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Pete102 said: Thanks for that....indo crash....this one... And the sea king that got a bit too familiar with the rocks on ben nevis this week too..
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Oily Nails
2,633 posts
69 months
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Crafty_ said: Pete102 said: Thanks for that....indo crash....this one... And the sea king that got a bit too familiar with the rocks on ben nevis this week too.. Eh? when? link?
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Crafty_
4,525 posts
69 months
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Oily Nails
2,633 posts
69 months
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Cheers, Pumas, Sea Kings and Chinooks lovely thread 
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rhinochopig
16,050 posts
67 months
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Semi hemi said: We have a rebreather system, you have to breath into it to charge it. A bit of a scutter, yet to hear from anyone who has deployed one in anger.
Did my Canadian Survival in Halifax NS and there its a charged airbottle. TBH it would depend where I was sat in the Helicopter in relation to an exit wether I would be relying on it Thanks. Probably a better system as you've not got a pressurised bottle bouncing around in the aircraft.
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JoeBolt
104 posts
31 months
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onyx39 said: I am guessing the aircraft is now just an expensive hunk of scrap metal? Not necessarily. I doubt that the airframe will have sustained any significant damage. As long as the helicopter isn't allowed to sink and can be recovered in good time, there's no reason it couldn't be flying again in a few months. Of course the aircraft owner/insurer would need to decide the economic viability of returning it to service.
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matchmaker
3,256 posts
69 months
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Semi hemi said: rhinochopig said: Quick question for those that work offshore. Do you have anything like a 'spare-air' on your survival rig in case you ditch and the helo overturns? http://www.spareair.com/We have a rebreather system, you have to breath into it to charge it. A bit of a scutter, yet to hear from anyone who has deployed one in anger. Did my Canadian Survival in Halifax NS and there its a charged airbottle. TBH it would depend where I was sat in the Helicopter in relation to an exit wether I would be relying on it The Crewsaver lifejackets issued to RNLI crew on all-weather lifeboats inflate automatically on hitting the water - think it's a CO2 bottle. Thus inflated it is enough to support the weight of an adult. You can then manually add extra buoyancy by blowing into a tube. With this extra buoyancy the lifejacket can support the weight of two adults.
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onyx39
3,448 posts
19 months
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Semi hemi
1,677 posts
67 months
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matchmaker said: Semi hemi said: rhinochopig said: Quick question for those that work offshore. Do you have anything like a 'spare-air' on your survival rig in case you ditch and the helo overturns? http://www.spareair.com/We have a rebreather system, you have to breath into it to charge it. A bit of a scutter, yet to hear from anyone who has deployed one in anger. Did my Canadian Survival in Halifax NS and there its a charged airbottle. TBH it would depend where I was sat in the Helicopter in relation to an exit wether I would be relying on it The Crewsaver lifejackets issued to RNLI crew on all-weather lifeboats inflate automatically on hitting the water - think it's a CO2 bottle. Thus inflated it is enough to support the weight of an adult. You can then manually add extra buoyancy by blowing into a tube. With this extra buoyancy the lifejacket can support the weight of two adults. Auto inflate lifejackets would be a killer in ditched helicopters, last thing you would want is extra bouyancy preventing you escaping a submerged/capsized a/c
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baldy1926
845 posts
69 months
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Looks like a really good controlled landing. The bbc were saying it had a gearbox oil leak which is not good. The tv pictures showed a big swell. The puma stayed afloat as well as its been recovered already
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