Super Puma skidded @ Sembawang Airbase

kopiosatu SG

lets hope they use chinook instead of SP for sar activations in future. that day must be very suay, got incident n SAR activation

chinooks can't land everywhere.

everyone thinks chinooks can take on everything.

i don't mind chinooks take over SAR

i don't have duty and the person they are ferrying can take longer to reach the hospital

kajagugu SG

Hi!

I would like to know if this kind of BOI report of such incidents will be made known at least to those people in SBAB? I know the public sure won't get to see the report.

I'm quite curious to know the cause of the failure leh, first time hearing this kind of accident. Hope in future no more :)

martin_lim85 SG

chinooks can't land everywhere.

everyone thinks chinooks can take on everything.

i don't mind chinooks take over SAR

i don't have duty and the person they are ferrying can take longer to reach the hospital

yalo. must find landing space. or else everything will hit by the downwash

Zooish SG

Actually the NUS field is rather spacious, CH can land there, no problem.

So the SP crash is it a cat 5?

kopiosatu SG

no one is allowed to answer that yet.

nice try asking though.

kopiosatu SG

Actually the NUS field is rather spacious, CH can land there, no problem.

of course it can land there

but the question is, how fast can you get a person to hospital?

landing on the field is better than landing at the helicopter landing pad at the hospital?

wonderamazement SG

pity the Hueys are gone.

kopiosatu SG

pity the Hueys are gone.

UH will crash also what, what tokking you?

wonderamazement SG

UH will crash also what, what tokking you?

retired aren't they?

kopiosatu SG

retired aren't they?

yah

but i don't see any pity about them being retired.

spares are not available, costs a bomb to maintain.

single engine, should it fail... good luck.

good thing about it? easy to role change.

wonderamazement SG

yah

but i don't see any pity about them being retired.

spares are not available, costs a bomb to maintain.

single engine, should it fail... good luck.

good thing about it? easy to role change.

yea... multirole... i thought of it the moment you guys talked about Medevac using Chinooks...

sbst275 SG

of course it can land there

but the question is, how fast can you get a person to hospital?

landing on the field is better than landing at the helicopter landing pad at the hospital?

I dun even know does NUH has helio pad like SGH

kopiosatu SG

yea... multirole... i thought of it the moment you guys talked about Medevac using Chinooks...

SP still champion of multi-role.

under appreciated piece of metal flying around.

kopiosatu SG

I dun even know does NUH has helio pad like SGH

NUH, not sure.

i know SGH has... and they guys land there directly.

probably the CH can't go to SGH, so have to divert to NUH and still land at the field.

wonderamazement SG

SP still champion of multi-role.

under appreciated piece of metal flying around.

in the SAF that is... after all we've only got that much amount of choppers. the Huey is the icon of the Vietnam war though.

sbst275 SG

Many of e Hueys didn't have good fate... many ended up sea burial after '75

Zooish SG

no one is allowed to answer that yet.

nice try asking though.

Always worth a try.

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