Helicopter Ditched North Sea

[markmullen]

Channel 4 twitter is reporting a controlled ditching of a helictoper in the North Sea with 14 on board, now in a liferaft.

[markmullen]

http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-sto...

[Pete102]

Sounds like a controlled landing on water...well done that pilot if so!

I'm due offshore next week...great

[onyx39]

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!

[Pete102]

Thanks for that....indo crash....this one...

[Oily Nails]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18026174

Impressively weird seeing it just bobbing along!

[onyx39]

I am guessing the aircraft is now just an expensive hunk of scrap metal?

[rhinochopig]

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/

[chrisj_abz]

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!

[Semi hemi]

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

[Crafty_]

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..

[Oily Nails]

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?

[Crafty_]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-is...

http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.ph...

Clipped a rock face or similar, possibly due to malfunction. No-one injured, they hauled it out (sans rotors) with a chinook.

[Oily Nails]

Cheers,
Pumas, Sea Kings and Chinooks lovely thread

[rhinochopig]

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.

[JoeBolt]

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.

[matchmaker]

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.

[onyx39]

back on dry land...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-o...

[Semi hemi]

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

[baldy1926]

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