Another helicopter down off Scotland

[three_bags_full]

All eight killed. This is getting crazy.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/01/scotland.helicopter.ditch/index.html

 

[Football_Bat]

Re: Another helicopter down off Scottland

The story I read said there were 16 on board and eight others were missing.

 

[goalmouth]

I went to school with two brothers, both became military helicopter pilots. Both died in separate crashes.

 

[three_bags_full]

The job certainly carries a little more risk, but if you land most of our aircraft flat-side down, you've got a pretty decent chance of survival. Unfortunately, the big killers like enemy fire and inadvertent IMC (instrument meteorological conditions, or popping into the clouds or a dust storm) rarely let you land upright.