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Scotty100 wrote:My girlfriend is an intensive care nurse and looks after some of the poor souls caught up in the Clutha tragedy. I am so proud of her. She is one heck of a special lady. Totally selfless and dedicated to those in her care. From the accident happening to her arriving at work must have been no more than 15 minutes even though she was off shift. To those who complain about our NHS please remember people like my Lynne who go way above and beyond what is required.
Love her to bits
Botanic Squirrel wrote:Being something of an aviation buff, I know pilots in trouble would try to avoid putting people on the ground at risk so my initial thought was that maybe he was trying to ditch in the river and didn't quite make it, but since there was no time for mayday and the rotors weren't moving at the time of the crash that seems unlikely now. It was just too quick to do anything.
I heard one aviation expert talk about a phenomenon where a copter basically 'sinks' rapidly into the downward moving air below it, but if the rotors weren't moving there wouldn't be any downward moving air, so it's still a mystery.
sandabound wrote:Botanic Squirrel wrote:Being something of an aviation buff, I know pilots in trouble would try to avoid putting people on the ground at risk so my initial thought was that maybe he was trying to ditch in the river and didn't quite make it, but since there was no time for mayday and the rotors weren't moving at the time of the crash that seems unlikely now. It was just too quick to do anything.
I heard one aviation expert talk about a phenomenon where a copter basically 'sinks' rapidly into the downward moving air below it, but if the rotors weren't moving there wouldn't be any downward moving air, so it's still a mystery.
Watched a programme years ago about this, it's called bad air, the chopper eventually blows all the surrounding air away from it if it sits static in the same spot for too long & it drops like a stone, there's nothing the pilot can do to recover it, early reports said he had closed the fuel feed to prevent a fireball on impact. so is it a possibility that they were overlooking the rail line for too long ? the bad air scenario also takes any chance of gliding out of the equation too, but time will tell.
God bless all the poor souls involved.
RDR wrote:Finally I have to say, at a time when the Con-Dem politicians spend their time running down and degenerating public service workers we are reminded about how important they are and what we owe them at times like this. Support the fire fighters in their dispute over pensions. Could you have seen a 60 year old fire fighter dealing with this?
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