Story for the offshore boys
Submitted by sea-kem on Sun, 2013-08-25 20:56
Brings home how risky the whole business is.http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2013/08/25/Four_die_in_North_Sea_chopper_crash_899867.html
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reece
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Rippa! I fly out of barrow
Rippa! I fly out of barrow Tuesday on a puma..
Any one free to help me pull my drum lines tomorrow?
petermac
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wtf
why post that mate I am retired now but used to hate flying out if I was still getting in choppers I would feel sick in my gut seeing that if I was just about to fly out. RIP the boys lst
sea-kem
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I'm flying out in about 2
I'm flying out in about 2 weeks time Peter. I feel safer on the choppers than I do in some of the light aircraft I sometimes have to use to get there.Most blokes in the game will hear about this anyway in the morning briefings.
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Shane O
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Shit
Fly almost 2 hours from truscott to the northern Endeavour good thing we don't use use the ec225...
Shane O
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Date Joined: 22/01/10
They
Only just put them back in service after a coup,e of months, there was something wrong with the gear box. Looks like it will be a long time before they use them again. Rip guys
rigby
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north sea
i just flew out to the north sea out to the west phoenix. we flew out on a S92 but most other guys are getting out by boat now, scary to hear that the exact chopper was at the west phoenix the flight before it crashed.
Brucesta
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they stilla ren't flying the
they stilla ren't flying the EC225's here (CHC) and have been relying on the AW138's Bristow have been flying thier Supa Puma's but i guess we won't see them in the air for a while now either.
I too fly offshore next week to the Okha, no doubt in a AW138 and sea-kem is right, we all heard about it anyway during pre-starts and general chat.
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