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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 9, 2016 21:50:27 GMT 12
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Post by suthg on Jul 10, 2016 9:16:59 GMT 12
Yes, quite an horrific crash, but the two folks were retrieved in extremely demanding conditions! The wind through there is funneled and obviously made it very difficult for the pilot. I know there is auto hover for the pilot, but just landing safely back on the Gorge road to lift the folk to safety in those conditions, took some skills too! Thoughts go out to the two policeman who entered the river to help the driver survive and stayed with him for an hour. Both were suffering effects of hypothermia afterwards. One needed to be lifted to safety by the heli pilot and crew. I think that is what the video shows.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 10, 2016 9:30:26 GMT 12
I almost feel the Government needs to build an alternative to that gorge road, it's nothing but trouble with the frequent accidents, slips and closures.
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Post by crewdog on Jul 10, 2016 10:20:47 GMT 12
"I know there is auto hover for the pilot" - Suthg, The only auto hover a pilot of a BK117 has is the crewman supplying SOP patter to assist them. Some BK's have an auto pilot but it wouldn't help in this situation. Certainly very demanding conditions and looks like a well executed mission by all the crew involved.
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Post by craig on Jul 10, 2016 12:28:22 GMT 12
Surprised to see the crewman being lowered not wearing a helmet. In those challenging conditions a smack on the heat from skid or rocks highly likely and not a good place to be hanging unconscious. But great result from all those involved.
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Post by 11SQNLDR on Jul 10, 2016 19:48:02 GMT 12
Also surprised to see the crewman on the winch without a helmet but regardless - well done to the crew on some wonderful airmanship  I don't know how many times over the years I've been stuck or detoured in the Gorge, the Saddle road isn't much chop and I wonder what the future plans are to eventually replace this route... |
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