Helicopter and crane.

[empip]

Chopper down in the smoke... This one - they say.
http://www.castleair.co.uk/1997-agusta-109e-power-g-crst.html

Tangled with this one...
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8055/8378198936_acfbd6ee65_k.jpg

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[rjm2k]

Seems to be something missing from that Crane, a navigation light!

 

[OwainDIYer]

Tangled with this one...
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8055/8378198936_acfbd6ee65_k.jpg

I wouldn't want to have to climb to the top of that every morning ...

... and find I'd left my sarnies and thermos at the bottom

 

[joe-90]

Don't they have some kind of sat nav that tells them where the tall structures are?

 

[Hysteresis]

Don't they have some kind of sat nav that tells them where the tall structures are?

YES Joe - they are called eyes

 

[joe-90]

But they don't work in the fog. Neither would radar pick a crane jib up.

Just like you get speed camera warnings on a sat nav - why not something similar for aircraft?

 

[chapeau]

He was probably scud running and ran out of luck.

 

[Hysteresis]

But they don't work in the fog. Neither would radar pick a crane jib up.

Just like you get speed camera warnings on a sat nav - why not something similar for aircraft?

Hight measurement does not rely on Eyes, so just fly higher than the highest building in London and you will miss it.
Seriously though Joe, I realise it is a lot more complicated than that, missing flight paths to Heathrow etc. There is certainly a lot more to this story than meets the eye. He was a very experienced highly respected Helicopter Pilot who just would not make the kind of error that happened here, Maybe hight measuring instruments were at fault or may be a hundred other complex variables. The whole thing is a tragedy that should never have happened and it will come to light what happened in due course.

 

[masona]

Heard on the radio the crane driver normally start at 8am and was late but he was climbing up the crane's shaft


"He would have been wiped out if he had been on time. It was a very lucky escape."


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/avi...imbing-up-the-shaft-when-disaster-struck.html

 

[longdogs]

Some guy on the news said that the crane operator should have started work at 8am but was late for work. If he had worked for the company I used to work for they would have congatulated him for not getting killed then docked his wages.

 

[Bodgeitandleggit]

Heard on the radio the crane driver normally start at 8am and was late but he was climbing up the crane's shaft


"He would have been wiped out if he had been on time. It was a very lucky escape."


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/avi...p-the-shaft-when-disaster-struck.html[/QUOTE]

One lucky chap if its true

 

[chapeau]

Looking at the weather reports from London City and Heathrow for this morning it was not the place to be in a helicopter or a crane !

Clouds at 100 ft, -3C at ground level, freezing fog. Dodgy dodgy weather. Best place to be if you want to cross London when it's like that is in the tube.

 

[sooey]

You can't fly a helicopter through the tunnels, the blades are too wide.

 

[misterdubya]

Looking at the weather reports from London City and Heathrow for this morning it was not the place to be in a helicopter or a crane !

Clouds at 100 ft, -3C at ground level, freezing fog. Dodgy dodgy weather. Best place to be if you want to cross London when it's like that is in the tube.

Not when your on the roof of a house in Almedia St, Islington. Id rather drive and take my roof ladders. Being a non-tredesperson (according to peter perfection) the leadwork was not too bad. Hell, I no nuffin.... aint va la'in word 4 led called plumb?

 

[ajstoneservices]

Gave up working around there when the parking tickets and clamping scam was costing more than a days pay