Glasgow Police Helicopter Crash Report Published

[Martin43]

AAIB report published here...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/aircraft-accide...

Sad that the accident seemed to be wholly preventable. However, the exact reasons behind the sequence of events in the cockpit will never be known which must be hard for the families and friends of those involved.

[ecsrobin]

Seems extremely odd that the alarm was silenced 5 times and yet they continued the journey. Very sad for all those involved.

[saaby93]

Probably knew they had loads of fuel - did the gauges show that too?

An experienced pilot may choose to believe it more likely the warning was faulty

[Geneve]

There's plenty on other forums discussing this in more detail, but the AAIB appear to have done another excellent job piecing together the sequence of events. What will probably always remain unanswered is the pilot's decision making process - with so many apparent opportunities.

The same will probably be true of the Vauxhall helicopter crash, when the report comes out. Sadly, most 'accidents' are a consequence of a series of decision making errors. Pressonitis being the worst

Edited by Geneve on Tuesday 27th October 16:50

[ecsrobin]

Geneve said:

There's plenty on other forums discussing this in more detail, but the AAIB appear to have done another excellent job piecing together the sequence of events. What will probably always remain unanswered is the pilot's decision making process - with so many apparent opportunities.

The same will probably be true of the Vauxhall helicopter crash, when the report comes out. Sadly, most 'accidents' are a consequence of a series of decision making errors. Pressonitis being the worst

Edited by Geneve on Tuesday 27th October 16:50

It was quite sad to see the other day the pilots daughter on Facebook asking for anyone with experience to help explain the report to clear her dads name. Sadly when you can only go on the data presented, pilot error looks to be the cause.

[saaby93]

ecsrobin said:

Sadly when you can only go on the data presented, pilot error looks to be the cause.

Surely that's just about always the way, since the pilot is there to deal with whatever situation is presented.
If a pilot does make an error there are likely to be factors leading up to the error which if issued or handled differently could have led to a different outcome. The plan should be to uncover those to try to prevent a re-occurrence.