RAF staff pushed to limit in mock crash
Thursday 28th January 2010, 10:34AM GMT.
Emergency services responding to a simulated helicopter crash near Harmer Hill.
Emergency services and staff at RAF Shawbury were pushed to the limit as they took part in a training exercise scenario which involved a helicopter crash.
The distressed “mayday” call came in at 11am and immediately more than 100 people sprung into action as part of a multi-agency response to the simulated crash which fictitiously killed two people on board and a civilian on the ground.
An RAF Griffin helicopter with eight people on board had hit a flock of geese and “crash-landed” in a field near Harmer Hill.
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The emergency services pushed to the limit? You don’t say! Even my imagination is struggling to cope with this simulation, it’s the first Nissan Almera-Griffin I’ve ever seen, or is it that the aircraft has hit the vehicle?
Take my advice if you want to live safely anywhere,live in a school,after every aircraft crash we hear that the pilot stayed at the controls to miss the school, I suppose it’s nothing to do with the fact that most pilots are trained to look for open fields in the vague hope of landing safely in an emergency, but that doesn’t make a good headline or a hero.
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for those of us who live under the flight paths of these helicopters it is a chilling reminder of what could happen
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