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The planes you fly around the Maldives, used as taxis basically , are painted up real nice , all sea planes, but inside they are very rough, and very rickety, it does not inspire much confidence.

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Just back from Vegas. Heard about this from a friend who knew I worked there and was concerned. It is the Hibernia field where I work and it is one of the choppers I regularly fly on. Haven't heard the names of the casualties yet, so I don't know if any of my friends were amongst them. The field is currently in a shut down mode, and so they would have been flying extra construction workers offshore for the shutdown work.
Thankfully for me, it's another bullet I've dodged, but the guys on board that one were not so fortunate.
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Glad to see you are safe and sound Ant!!

As you say you were luckier than those on board whose friends and relatives I really do feel for. A sad and tragic accident. WINNER - 2009 Best Newcomer Award
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oilman glad your safe old bean...
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@oilman:
Sorry to hear that. I'm glad you personally weren't affected though. It's always sad when something like that happens and of course it's even worse when it happens to people "near" you. I really do hope this will have been the last crash.

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QANTAS - they don't crash!

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Thanks for the concern guys - nice!!!!!
Just heard from Canada... it was most probably a main gearbox failure which gives very little opportunity for a controlled ditching. Nobody on board I knew. Only two passengers were for the Hibernia field, the rest were for the White Rose FPSO nearby - it was a shared flight.
One survivor still critical in hospital, but expected to survive - amazingly!

I'm off back out there on Tuesday but won't be flying offshore until April 1st. Might go by boat!
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Oilman

I work for Sikorsky.

Please be careful about generic terms like "failure" of the MGB. There are likely many causal factors at work leading to this unfortunate and sad accident. It will be some time before all the facts are known. I have no reason to doubt the continued safe operation of the S-92 in all environments. Gone - 2008 Stornoway Grey RRS 2.7 TDV6
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BKHK, I agree about the speculations before the investigation is over.

Anyway, it seems that the investigators found a broken stud related to the main gearbox oil filter system, that could lead to loss of oil pressure and subsequent MGB failure. It also seems that those parts were subject to a voluntary safety alert by Sikorsky, calling for the replacement of titanium studs with steel ones.

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BKHK wrote:

Oilman

I work for Sikorsky.

Please be careful about generic terms like "failure" of the MGB. There are likely many causal factors at work leading to this unfortunate and sad accident. It will be some time before all the facts are known. I have no reason to doubt the continued safe operation of the S-92 in all environments.

Sorry BKHK - didn't mean to cause any controversy by my speculation. Humble apologies.
There are many redundant systems in helicopters, but the MGB is not included. I was merely pointing out that the most likely cause of a catastrophic failure such as this is probably related to the MGB.

Agreed, the full investigation will almost certainly get to the root cause. Time will tell.

I'm in St. John's now and the Cougar fleet is grounded, so we are doing all our offshore transfers by boat. This may continue for some time.

Sad times out here just now.
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Another chopper has gone down. 35 miles off North East Scotland....


"About 16 people are believed to be on board the aircraft. Aberdeen Coastguard has confirmed a rescue operation is under way.

The incident is believed to have happened about 35 miles east of Crimond in Aberdeenshire at about 1400 BST.

Aberdeen Coastguard is co-ordinating the operation, which includes two RAF helicopters and a Nimrod. Fishing boats are also in the area." 2022 P440e AB

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