Super Puma Against The Weather | Helicopter Down | FULL EPISODE | Mayday: Air Disaster

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On January 19, 1995, a Super Puma carrying 16 oil workers set off on a 146-mile journey from the Scottish city of Aberdeen, bound for Marathon Oil's Brae B platform. They never made it.

With 40 miles to go, their helicopter flew into a cloud and hail started streaming into the plane through every vent. A gigantic flash of lightning knocked the helicopter out of the sky causing the pilots to struggle to stay airborne which meant they had to crash land into the heaving sea. Unfortunately, one life raft was unusable therefore all 18 scrambled aboard the other which was now overloaded. The jagged edges of the helicopter punctured the inflatable raft which began to sink.

By a miracle, a fellow pilot in another helicopter managed to spot them in the heaving ocean and hovered over to them and directed rescue ships to the scene. The pilots were astonished to find that their account of what had happened was simply not believed and the evidence lies at the bottom of the sea.

From Season 3 Episode 7 "Helicopter Down": On January 19, 1995, Super Puma flew into a storm with a gigantic flash of lightning knocking the helicopter out of the sky and causing the pilots to struggle to stay airborne and ending up crashing into the heaving sea. By a miracle, a fellow pilot managed to spot them in the heaving ocean and directed rescue ships to the scene.

Welcome to the OFFICIAL Mayday: Air Disaster YouTube Channel.

Mayday: Air Disaster is a dramatic non-fiction series that investigates high-profile air disasters to uncover how and why they happened. Mayday: Air Disaster follows survivors, family members of crash victims and transportation safety investigators as they piece together the evidence of the causes of major accidents. So climb into the cockpit for an experience you won’t soon forget.

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It is good to see that for once, a company has taken safety seriously. Those suits and training, the videos before each flight, saved those men's lives once they hit the water. And the pilots absolutely are heroes for how they handled the situation. Doing everything they could to get their passengers home to their families.

ZenkaiAnkoku
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The pilot still has the thank you card from the daughters of one of the men he saved. I was pretty tough until that bit, having a daughter of my own.

rickyjoeshippyful
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I can’t even imagine the rage, horror, and utter shock I would feel to have gone through this, and then been not only questioned, but nearly accused!

mj
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I love that not only did everybody survive, and rescue was relatively quick and simple, but the pilots gave an accurate description of what happened and were vindicated by staggering physical evidence.

nunyabusiness
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Credit to the Super Puma makers for fixing a problem despite the CAA pretending it wasn’t a problem let alone requiring a fix. Credit to both the pilots for their modest. The one pilot was very modest about his role in landing the heli gently.

The_ZeroLine
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This is something different, though I LOVE aircrash investigations! Just don't see many Helicopter ones. Glad he made sure to point out the Earth is ROUND therefore, pilots DO use the curvature of the Earth! 🌎 And thank you to those brave men and women who do this incredible work, from flying, to the times on those rigs, and deep sea divers!

kasatka
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I hope these helicopters are now fitted with better life rafts that have distress beacaons built into them and the passengers have dry suits that are also buoyant!

joannegaughan
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Couple Decades ago I was in a MH53 (a USN Helicopter) mishap/accident after we had a Main Gear Box Failure resulting in us ditching into the Ocean at 60+ knots was the most terrifying thing I have ever been thru. Thankfully we were well prepared and no crew members died! That Helo Dunker Training really did pay off LOL!

FatRescueSwimmer
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Credits to the cameraman for flying along the helicopter

humanbeing
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The fact that this ridiculous trip is “routine”, is a great indication of how our energy situation makes no sense.

TCPUDPATM
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What hellish job; both for pilots and the oil workers.

LotusLady
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As a teen I along with a pet dog were hit by lighting. Although it was a indirect strike, it was a super blast of lighting which induced a EMP that hit me and the dog. As well, the dog and I were blasted about 20 feet across a basement. I was knocked unconscious for I believe about 5 to 10 minutes but when I awoke my arms were straight up in the air and the dog was in my hands. For about 5 minutes or so both the dog and I remained locked in that position because we could not move -- I suspect because of our nervous systems being out of wack from the EMP. Ever since that time I have personally seen or heard of lightning doing things that I thought it couldn't do. E.G., lighting hit a 18 wheeler so hard that it blasted it off of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel a few years back. Or a man chopping wood being hit by "out of the blue" lighting which originated about 50 to 60 miles away from his location. That being said, I find it Ludicrous that Britain's Civil Aviation Authority could not accept that given certain circumstances (and evidence of it) -- lighting could actually damage a chopper so badly causing it to crash. SMH.

RynardMooreVstar
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Captain John MacInnes of the Grampian Freedom is exactly what a I picture when I think of a North Sea Captain, Accent and all!

scottcol
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The money that industry makes there is no excuse that the "Gate" tower doesn't have radar, and every helio have GPS positioning and reporting, AND proper rafts.

RVSparky
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man there is a lot to be learned from this...

Decenium
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Wow, what an incredible event….unimaginable horror and to know that airliners are being made with that material that could make them more succeptive to a powerful lightning strike is unsettleing.

kelcritcarroll
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I've been addicted to these vids. Please keep on making them

thelordco.
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one thing i like is that Cap. Roberts shows us that he had gotten a card from the daughter of one of the survivors showing us that there are so many other people affected by this incident not just the souls on board the craft

tomekkijak
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Here's me, a grown man, watching this video, admiring with respect all what these brave fellow men went through and how the handled it. Boys will be boys but then, the card, THAT card at the end!! I guess it's ok to show a tiny bit of our soft side in the anonymity of the internet.

olchat
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The "Grampian Freedom" sounds like the name of an all Grandpa nudist-colony lol.

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