re: Aircraft down in GOM (Dec 29, 2022)

by matsuflex

This guy knows his stuff

That's the second RLC bird down in a month. Third in a year.
WTF man

There’s been a few more that hasn’t made the news.
They only make the news if coast guard is involved (people in the water that aren’t fished out quickly) or it’s in a public area with injuries.

Yes A&P since 1989, In the Gulf working helicopters since 1994. And youre right, Im not going to say who I have worked for.but I have worked for the bigs and littles, but never RLC.

Rotor Blades Inc? Or after they became Bell Broussard?

GOM?

Gulf Of Mexico

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If you took every helicopter operator who's had a accident out of service then nobody would have helicopters in the Gulf of Mexico last three crashes have been two by Rotorcraft and one by West Wind.

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I was flying in to the USS Carl Vinson a couple weeks back for a day of training. The aircraft was a CV-22 Osprey. As we were landing, either the pilot wasn't paying attention, or someone on the deck wasn't, because suddenly we made a huge veer to port and for a few seconds all I could see looking to my left was water, no horizon, and in those few seconds I thought, "Yep, he's going to flip this and this is the moment when I meet my demise." The copter suddenly went to level and I looked out the starboard side and there was a second Osprey about 50' from ours rising up off the deck. Not sure who was at fault, but our pilot, a young kid of about 24 years old, I'd say, was like, "Sorry about that. Gotta' be more careful."

Needless to say, I wasn't thrilled when he was my pilot on the way back.

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Brittany Grindr

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Might want to clear autocorrect

Prayers and support sent for your family and others who are experiencing this tragedy

Good friend of mine lost his BIL in the SEACOR disaster. He's not the same person he once was

It’s the opposite unfortunately. Good news comes out first. Have to call off the search. Can’t say no survivors until family is notified after that’s confirmed.