Cougar Incident Offshore

[cranedriver]

Anyone have the details ??

61 or 92 ??

[That's not good]

With 18 pax's it would have been the 92, it's also on the Terra Nova contract.

Man, that is a long way to come back with one engine.

Those Cougar guys are well trained and know how to operate very well in a very difficult environment.

[Kyle]

Check the news section.

[DecuMajor]

The news article only mentions a Sikorsky, but not type. Can we confirm yet whether it was a 61 or 92?

[Blackmac]

The pilot turned around three minutes from the rig and the pax were complaining about going back to St. John's.

 

Talk about your BACK SEAT drivers.

 

I don't beleive a rig platform is the place to practice one engine landings unless you are low on fuel.

 

PDM and he used it, the story could have been entirely different. Those pax's should be praising the pilots and buying the drinks.

 

No matter what helicopter was being flown, I am sure you would get only one chance of landing with the sink rate and power applications.

 

The insurance company should send the crew on a pre-paid world cruise.

 

Well done guys.

 

Cheers, Don

[flinch]

I couldn't be certain of the SOP and emergency checklist response to an engine failure at Cougar but I would be willing to bet they proceeded by the book. The policy of off shore transport providers is too proceed to a land based alternate in the case of an oei landing. And for interest sake, I agree that if you feel that the second stove will take you to a local with more space and emergency response crews thats the safer bet. It would certainly be a sad state of affairs to roll off the deck a hundred feet and land inverted in the water. You might have a slow leg back to town with a knot in your belly but you should land without excitement or damage back at a strip. Well this is my first post on here so hello to all the regulars as well.

[sharkbait]

Sounds like;

 

"Cool, Calm and Collective" to me. :up:

 

Kudos to all for a job well done!

 

More high pitched whining from the Pax than from the a/c - nothing new there.

[twinstar_ca]

agreed with all... maybe the pax should consider that they're all still around to snivel and complain about it BECAUSE the crew made the decision THEY knew to be best...

 

well done, guys... :up:

[Skids Up]

So much better than reading the "other" news story, on what "could have" been.

 

Some people (pax) just don't know when they are well off...

 

Good job guys! :up: :up:

[412driver]

excellent job boys. that's why you have the other engine......

 

i've come home twice on one engine in my career (while flying twins all you smart@sses ) and never even considered a deck landing :shock: