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.
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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.
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Ma y. Day air disaster
Forget wanting to see more ocean crashes and crash landings... I'd rather prefer that there are none!
But I see where you are coming from!
Whoever is writing scripts needs to pick metric or imperial system and stick with it
old , uploaded long ago
How about NEW episodes?
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.
Like almost all safety regulations, this is on the back of countless other disasters and fatalities in Scottish waters. Never, ever neglect safety.
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.
I teared up! That was so sweet 🥲
Pretty much summed it up for me too...
I cried 😭❤️
Yeah same here man, I choked up a bit lol
Yes, I almost kicked over the tear bucket on that one.
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.
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!
That’s life today. The people who should be in jail are the ones trying to put us in jail and take our money to boot. To be honest though, I wouldn’t normally apply to agencies like the NTSB which are usually really great and scientific. It sounds like these were just non-investigators eager to give an opinion that got their face on the air. And you can see how diligent the submersible team was.
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.
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!
@@hunterrrdrives No ItS a FlAt SuRfAcE
In all seriousness, the Earth could technically have billions of flat surfaces to make a round shape... so Flat Earthers are only 99.7% incorrect.
@@stevemc01 now they are gonna run with their 99.7% correctness 🤦🏻♂️
@@stinkfist4205 Lol they’ll just completely twist what I said into some dumb conspiracy theory…
@@stevemc01 beam me up Scotty.
I would never have believed that ppl would think that the earth is flat, in the 21st Century. Or that there would still be country music culture/"fashion", and that people would name their kids "Seth" and "Josh". Ten years from now, the most popular baby names will be "Jethro" and "Zeke"...
Credits to the cameraman for flying along the helicopter
Captain John MacInnes of the Grampian Freedom is exactly what a I picture when I think of a North Sea Captain, Accent and all!
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!
I would assume they do. Considering this took place in 1995, I bet many changes have been made since. Especially in response to this accident.
Actually inflatable life jackets so you can get out and then inflate it to get up to the surface as your sinking quick in those once a window breaks
If l remember correctly the oil feed lids damage loose blot
@@malice6081 What about if you're unconscious?
*+CoDWiiPS3Gameplay* yeah right! That is why 45:53 Edward Trimble .. the lead investigator was so appreciative of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Divided Kingdom!
What hellish job; both for pilots and the oil workers.
They are getting paid really really well 6 figure salaries per year. It all comes down to taking the risk and its management.
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!
@The Blue Max 👍👍👍👍👍👍 there, I did it for you 😂
I've been addicted to these vids. Please keep on making them
The fact that this ridiculous trip is “routine”, is a great indication of how our energy situation makes no sense.
Honestly! I’m certain even nuclear is less dangerous, people despise it but if it’s done correctly it’s comparatively safe, and by far way cleaner for the environment (once again, if done safely, which it is likely to be 99.9999% of the time) and even better than nuclear is like I dunno, solar and wind and so many more things? So frustrating that it’s still the kingpin of the energy industry
@@Hebinushi I'm super pro nuclear, but we will always need oil, if not for gasoline, but for plastics and other materials.
@@patrickgardner2204 Yes. Petroleum is here forever. People think it's just used to fuel vehicles.
@@Del-Canada and when ppl who don't understand that start making laws we end up with issues.
True...
but to...
sir Nikola Tesla.: hold my beer
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.
WE COULD GO COMPLETELY SOLAR WITH ITEMS AVAILABLE FOR SALE. NOT SOLAR PANELS. BUT A WAY THAT NASA HAS USED AND REFINED SINCE THE SIXTIES. STERLING FREE PISTON GENERATOR AND SODIUM SULFATE TO STORE HEAT.
You need to think of the tech of 1995. 25 years ago.
Cell phones were just becoming affordable to people with 6 figure incomes.
GPS was owned and operated by the US military.
In 1995, my brother was proud to have a modern small cell phone about the size and weight of a brick.
@@fhuber7507 I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE A CLUE
@@fhuber7507 Ya ok. On some parts. But still Radar was available and the raft should have been capable or fewer passengers etc.
So, yeah, no commercial GPS for the UK yet in 95, as for radar, the platform wouldn't be plausible as a radar station. The electrical generation to run the radar let alone putting in an extremely tall tower above a flare stack... The industry would basically have to have a dedicated rig with its own crew, flights, supply support ect. to put a radar station in the middle of the ocean. Then the various licensing and crew training would mean they'd be paying out roughly 5x as much per body on the radar rig as opposed to the actual oil rig.
Does it sound great out the gate? Absolutely, and it would indeed be a wonderful tool. The costs however would also be rather extreme. Without actual numbers I'm guessing, but my spitball estimate would around 3-5% of the companies annual revenue for just one tool.
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.
The Brits are getting more and more accustomed to manufactured reality. It's like collective insanity.
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
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.
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.
It's not a problem with most planes anymore, they rectified that problem by adding metal mesh inside of the carbon fiber, so it acts the same as good ol, aluminum. Not sure about helicopters though.
What? It’s completely safe, would you rather the lightning go into everything in the cab and people die? They have little metal rods coming out the back of the wings and control surfaces that disperse the electricity
@@UHK-Reaper yeah I know but they do help a little!
Great equipment they have! Suits leaking, punctured raft, no handheld radio!!! wow
The "Grampian Freedom" sounds like the name of an all Grandpa nudist-colony lol.
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FULL EPISODE...THANKS!!!!! :-)
The engineer that designed the hydraulic pipes keeping the tail rotor attached NEEDS thanks as well!
Beautiful letter at the end there.
Circa 15:35 - Trust your instruments, trust your instruments, trust your instruments! No, I'm not a helicopter pilot (nor am I a pilot, period), but In a situation like that, no way would I say, "Meh, prolly just a false reading." (Although in fairness to these helicopter pilots, whether they had enough time to respond and/or could have responded in a way that would ameliorate the problem are open questions.)
A lot of times you get a false alarms in an airplane. Especially the old ones but new ones as well sometimes. I had multiple low fuel warnings , high oil pressure warning,, low oxygen warning and even a faulty terrain warning.
It was usually related to sensors going bad.
So it does happen more often than you would like it to happen.
Trusting your instruments is a right thing to do but it mainly refers to your " 6 pack " instruments like airspeed indicator, artificial horizon etc.
Instruments are like watching deleted scenes from a movie; they are not precisely 'canon' but do provide truth. Full disregard is a mistake.
Those pilots are heroes.
I saw this years ago. I've been looking for it. That letter from the daughter will always trump any accolade.
Awesome video! I sat on the edge of my seat and cried happy tears at the end. Thank you for sharing♥️
This is something I hope I never have to go through.
Those pilots knew how to talk, like they were just reassuring without being overly optimistic.
man there is a lot to be learned from this...
Excellent outcome!
8:56 proof that the earth is round 😄
Amazing reconstruction
Thank you for an Awesome video!
A 37:46 the model heli in the background in his office is missing a tail rotor blade. I wouldn't want that in my office reminding me every day or the ordeal.
Good spot. But look at the model compared to 56-Charlie as it was pulled up. I could be wrong, but I think that is a scale model of the damaged chopper. Or it may be he hasn't finished assembling it. I'd be curious to know more myself.
Who is the narrator he has real good voice
Stephen Bogaret for Canada and Bill Ratner for U.S. David Bamber for the UK,season one only
The yr i was born 💜 also, thats the prettiest award I've ever seen
Cool. Heli's...very awesome!
Given eveeyone's original "never happened before, thus CANNOT happen" reaction, is it REALLY surprising that the CAA is, "meh"?
Haven't seen this one yet, thanks for the upload
Very interesting!
This appears as dangerous, if not more so, than an astronauts flight to the moon and its return.
I will remember this next time I fill my cars gasoline tank up.
1995 and the ship retrieving the wreck of the helicopter had computers using 5.25" floppy drives....think they would've upgraded to at least computers with 3.5" floppy drives by then LOL
Ah yes the floppy disc. So many of those 80s & 90s stuff seen on documentaries & videos of the time; the cars, flip phones, landlines, VHS tapes, audio cassettes, mail jeeps, etc. How things have changed in 30 years.
Thank you
a rubber raft that is to small for the number of passengers, cheap rope, leaking survival suits, no flare pistol/beacon. damn ! i want to work there
Lol in real life they got all those things.
I can understand that those guys refused to get on a helicopter. And flight is still a risky human endeavor. It's a science conducted by humans and therefore always carries numerous risks ranging from the probable to the nearly impossible. No matter how remote a risk, things are still a possibility.
In friggin credible 👏 watching from Ohio great job Smitty out 🙃👏👏👏
Praise the Lord! ❤
This is a nice educational chanel
This was a fascinating episode, perhaps the most interesting of all. The one predicable outcome was the "authorities'" refusal to accept the results. It might have resulted in modifications that would cost the airlines money so of course it had to be discredited. That pilot said it was "luck" that he got it right but that isn't true. He had to time everything perfectly keeping control until the last moment so it was his skill that saved all their lives.
The bad thing is Flat Earther will watch this and still find a why to explain the radar blackout🤦♂️🤦♂️
He’s got the whole world in his hands….. he’s got the whole wide world…in his hands…he’s got the whole world… in his hands. He’s got the whole world in his hands.😊
As for the industry not taking action to address the possible consequences of unusual lightning hitting a composite-based passenger aircraft... Consider how much it took to convince those people not to sweep Boeing 737 MAX 8 design flaws under the rug anymore (cause I'm pretty sure they had known there was an issue from the start).
Sadly, we've become plentiful and pretty much meaningless to the people running big corporations and governing bodies. It's not about passenger safety - it's about the bottom line, the margins, and the bonuses. It's only when a high-profile crash occurs and those sacred parameters get disrupted by fear, or a threat of heavy fines / lawsuits that any action is taken.
It took two major crashes in case of 737 MAX 8 - and I suspect it would take many more in case of high-energy lightning strikes to provoke any action at all. It's so rare that when a first such crash does occur, I highly suspect they'll find a way to pin the blame on the pilots (notice how they already tried that in case of Super Puma!), or simply conclude that the cause was 'highly unusual weather' and hope that another similar crash doesn't happen anytime soon.
i fucking love these
Ya know. I've seen and read about these "dead zones" over the oceanic highways. With all the tech we have, why can't we put radar in certain spots in the water. We have these huge rigs but we can't somehow put radar along these routes?? Why?
I'm quite shocked that
- that the liferafts weren't redundant
- that you can forget to take the distress beacon, that shouldn't be possible and it sounds like that there is only one, for two not redundant liferafts?
"It's just a coincidence."
"But-"
"I SAID IT'S JUST A COINCIDENCE; CONVERSATION DONE"
Not giving your gps coordinates, with updates, or your dme and bearing, after declaring your first Mayday, seems seriously negligent. To then forget the ELT compounded the problem. And tie the long line to the short line, lol. 🙄
In that situation i cant say i would have remembered everything!
GPS wasn't common in 1995.
@@kelcritcarroll ... Training and checklist. Common practice in aviation and they had time. They didn't even remember to take the beacon.
Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. It wasn't there priority to give a location, they were trying to figure out what's wrong with the aircraft and prep for ditching. Maybe there was some negligence, but in there position (In the middle of a storm with no visibility, hail, rain, lightning, a failing aircraft, and falling out of the sky) can you really blame them for not doing everything perfectly? Even in airline SIMULATORS, where people know before hand what is going to happen, they make mistakes.
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there is a lot of unintentional hilarity in this video like the pilots tensely radioing mayday while the passengers(and only the passengers) are shaking around violently despite being in the same heli
These videos are so professionally done. Is this a actual tv series??. If it’s just for CZcams, I must say this is amazing quality and re enactments and narration. Can’t stop watching your videos. Thanks for the hard work you put into them .
It was a TV series. Not sure who broadcast it first. I saw them in reruns on PBS.
TV series ,I remember watching this back in television .
This aired at 10 pm or something (where I live) ,so I'll be on the edge of my seat while praying mom doesn't wake up and orders me to go to sleep .
Yes it’s a TV series. They upload older episodes here. I believe the show is still running on TV with new episodes
It amazes me how "experts" dismiss something, because "it has never happened before" or "it is not supposed to happen"
The floats were ingenious.
The ice warning probably was spurious, as the pilots suspected.
BILLIONS of dollars of profits for companies from land they do not own.
Salute
Those drysuits were leaking that soon ?
Scary!
The chopper was flying, I wouldn't checked anything until I had the rig in sight...I've seen things happen in planes by checking systems during emergencies., my opinion thank the lord they made it
Holy toast this is interesting
Main rotor automatically disengages from power plant in case of tail rotor fail or Loss Of Tailrotor Effectiveness. So helicopter can autorotate down. Main rotor blades would not seize like that. Standard trained procedure on LTE. But in North Sea, the aircraft has no where to land except on the water.
they have better food than a school cafeteria
I mean, school cafeteria food is usually trash so that’s not saying much
Why didn't these companies install a radar in the zone called the gate ? I mean, they have a rescue ship that costs millions of dollars, and they can't afford a radar in the area ?
how can the pilot forget to give his position and everyone else forget the beacon 🤦
What are the names of the folks, who got the most money from the risks taken by those workers?
How much MORE do they have to make before they put actual survival equipment on board! Single chamber LIFE RAFT'S?
Raft is...what? You must not have completed your sentence. Have a nice day, and be careful out; you don't want to fall off the edge of the earth and be stranded on the turtle's back.
How come only like every other and half the episodes are available on Paramount+?
After I found out everybody lives, I laughed pretty hard about the 4 people that now refuse to fly
Murphy’s law
I can't believe that the helicopter caused the lightning strike from the hail
ima be 100% honest if the pilot didn't try a controll test they may have been able to make it back but when they did test it the tail rotor completely failed
As if we needed more reason to hate the oil industry.
They HAD to be talking about forgetting the transmitter beacon….
Flat Earthers : but the radar can't disappear the Earth is flat right 🤪
The earth can't be flat. If it were, my cat would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
WTF?!? I’m at a point where I am sick to death of plane/helicopter manufacturers, government oversight, airlines, etc!!
For every person who accused these pilots of lying, I’m curious if you’ve ever had the spine to walk up to any of them to convey that message?
Of course not!
For those who accused them of lying until the proof was undeniable, did you have the spine to apologize and tell the world you were wrong?
Of course not!
And for the governing entity that refuses to accept what was proven, and refused to implement appropriate steps to ensure it never happens again….. I want each and every one of you to stand face to face with the family members who lose a loved one when this happens again? Because it will happen again. Are you prepared to tell each of the families why you did nothing? Will you explain to them that safety of their loved one was just to high to pay for?
Just a thought, someone comment to add on, if the pilot had not tested controls after the strike and then attempted to land on the platform damaged, would have been very bad and could have cost 100s of lives, I know it's a afterthought, but it makes you think what "could" have happened..
38:12 Haunting!
The crew can report may day but not it's location (latitude and longitude)?
“Hypothermia risk is when combined sea/air temp is less than 50 degrees centigrade “… I don’t think so
in British parlance..."a damn close-run thing". hopefully EVERYBODY learned something from this near-tragedy. for pilots,give those awful cumulonimbus clouds a good wide berth,even if it means having to possibly abort the trip and go back to shore. better a bit late and safe than sorry. for the helicopter manufacturers,some of these new carbon fibre materials are potentially dangerous due to their great electrical conductivity.....sometimes "the old stuff" is still good...! ....also,maybe add a lot of static wicks/dumps dischargers anywhere possible to shunt and dump unwanted static away back into the atmosphere. for really low flying,perhaps use a trailing wire/small diameter cable dangled from the copter on a weight into the water as a ground to earth....? also for added safety,have the pilots and some of the passengers carry ELT,s in their suits so they can,t possibly be left behind in the copter in the "excitement" and also have them installed in the actual rafts. in addition,those "dry suits" apparently weren,t enough to really keep out water and provide guaranteed adequate flotation. yes,most helicopters are top-heavy so maybe have the emergency flotation bags deploy outwards sideways instead of right close alongside the fuselage to widen the stance and more resistant to capsizing.
Can someone explain why they think they would be trapped in a helicopter whose doors have already been blown open? Would it be because the rush of water would keep them forced inside before it filled and equalized? 38:10 They said 3m people fly to North Sea platforms annually. That cannot be accurate.
The inward rush of water can be extremely dangerous from the force. Add in the fact that flotation devices can actually trap you inside a sinking closed container (because you float to the top of the enclosed area rather than to the surface of the water), or even the fact that there were 18 men on board the helicopter can make it difficult to evacuate everyone. Heaven forbid someone panics or gets stuck or trapped, and people die
1st comment... YES !!!!
i consider this kind of work, crimes against Mother Earth.
Since they blamed you two pilots, you need to tell them you saved all aboard but you are taking your expertise elsewhere where you are appreciated. They don't deserve experts like you 😁
These greedy idiots always blames the little guy for their greediness mistakes
this is why u need to pass tbosiet, and understand the fundamental of it
Shouldn’t the oil rig be equipped with a radar too to prevent a “black hole” when helicopter crashes are so common? The North Sea is one of the most violent weather and sea areas. It’s a massive graveyard of aircraft and especially ships.
First, radar are line of sight instruments, and there's no way a North Sea oil rig could get the antenna up high enough to really make more than about a dozen kilometers range difference. (Remember, the nearest rig was 40 km from "The Gate".)
Second, water - especially precipitation - plays havoc with radio (radar) transmissions under the best of circumstances. How much more range would be lost to any "rig-mounted" radar sets any time the North Sea decided to get a bit frisky?
And third, a radar transmission is little different from any other electromagnetic discharge. How does that possibly sound like a good idea in proximity to hydrocarbon gas and vapor build ups which are already known to form in proximity to these rigs?
If they haven't implemented what you think is such an obvious idea, it's usually a sound engineering reason, rather than "greed" and "malice" that's motivating it.
@@DefiantSix Very informative. Thank you for the in-depth reply and covering all the various ways in which it would not be feasible. One question, there are many radars used on ships and other low altitude structures. So, why would this be any different for an offshore oil rig.
@@The_ZeroLine; radar on most ships (navies excluded) are surface search sets intended to show surrounding land masses and sea-borne vessels. It also shows about the same range limitations of 10 - 20 km maximum, depending on the height of the antenna above the surface. For ships, this is sufficient range to get a good grasp of what's going on around it in the timeframe it would expect to encounter them.
A different audio editor must have done this video, because you can actually hear the narrator.
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37:00 To test the blade did he need to generate 1.21 gigawatts?
8:28 Do some of those helicopters actually have to fly have their way back lol