Cormorant crashes into sea.

david balmer · Post by **david balmer** » 14 Jul 2006, 05:15

today saw the return of a canadian air sea rescue cormorant, front end torn off due to a nose dive into the sea during a rescue training exercise.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/photo/13072006 ... essel.html
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/13072006/2/n ... cotia.html

andy · Post by **andy** » 14 Jul 2006, 09:41

That looks nasty. :sad:

Post by **TSR2** » 14 Jul 2006, 11:05

Is that a version of the EH101? If there is a mechanical fault that could cause real problems.

Condolences to the families of all those invoveld.

david balmer · Post by **david balmer** » 14 Jul 2006, 15:53

this aircraft is the merlin h101. the canadian version is just a name change. as of today they can't say what happened, the pilot and copilot got out ok, so they will be questioned as to what happened.