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24 March 2009
Sikorsky starts fix on gearbox problem
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Via David Pugliese of the Ottawa Citizen; STRATFORD, Conn., March 23, 2009 – Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. announced today that the majority...
23 March 2009
Compensation talks? We dun need no stinkin’ compensation talks
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Apparently compensation talks between the provincial government and AbitibiBowater have broken off. When they broke off no one knows sinc...
Spinning him into his grave
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or the dangers of google? Jim Halley was a well respected local lawyer and a relentless anti-Confederate. Why CBC describes him as an “an...
Suncor and Petro-Canada to merge
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From the Globe and Mail : "This merger creates a made-in-Canada energy leader with the assets, cost structure and financial streng...
Lemme get this straight
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Greg Malone, actor, is working on a new book which is supposed to prove the Great Townie Anti-Confederate Fairytale once and for all, i,.e. ...
22 March 2009
Air Labrador to lay off 100
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The local airline will be discontinuing its Dash 8 service, according to CBC . [ Air Labrador Vice-President Philip] Earle insists the...
Brit SAR S-92s grounded for repair
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Britain’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency grounded four S-92s over the weekend used for search and rescue in order to replace bolts in the ...
Whose side will they be on in an Abitibi bankruptcy?
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The provincial government may find itself in a fight with AbitibiBowater pensioners in the province very shortly, as a direct result of the ...
20 March 2009
S-92 crash investigation finds broken stud in gearbox assembly
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The Transportation Safety Board team investigating the crash of a Sikorsky S-92 found a broken titanium bolt in the aircraft’s main gearbox...
No safety issue with helicopter transport suits: offshore regulator
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The text of a news release issued today by the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board: The Canada-Newfoundland and L...
“We don’t have a regulatory role”
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The provincial government has no regulatory role in the offshore? Nothing could be further from the truth . The provincial government ha...
19 March 2009
S-92 nosed in
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Lead Transportation Safety Board investigator Mike Cunningham told news media today that a preliminary review of evidence collected of the ...
Helicopter recovered, move to hangar for investigation
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The Transportation Safety Board investigation has recovered CHI91 from the ocean floor. The Telegram front page on Thursday included...
18 March 2009
Council shows some sense, temporarily
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St. John’s city council deferred further discussion of the search and rescue issue until a later time. Following the council meeting, ...
A pike, a scold, some vultures and a poke.
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1. Roger Pike offers some insightful comments on why the central Newfoundland community is currently in the grip of a major political cris...
17 March 2009
Enhancing east coast search and rescue
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The crash of Cougar 91, carrying passengers to two of the country’s offshore oil platforms, has prompted calls for enhanced search and rescu...
Canadian Press fact check, please
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Canadian Press should know that 103 Search and Rescue Squadron in Gander has three – not two – CH-149 Cormorant helicopters. It’s on th...
And then it was gone
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A day after we posted a link to the blog on local call-in shows, the thing vanished. -srbp-
S-92 track log
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From flightaware.com , the track log for CHI91. Times shown are Eastern Daylight Savings time. To convert to local (Newfoundland and Labr...
TSB S-92 summary: the media briefings thus far
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Since taking over the Cougar S-92 crash, the Transportation Safety Board has been providing more details on the incident through regular med...
Science minister a creationist?
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Now that would be nutty even in a nutty federal administration. Not quite as nutty as having a cabinet minister who has nothing better t...
Final seven recovered
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The remains of all sixteen of the missing from Cougar 91 have been recovered and returned to St. John’s. Only one person on board the fl...
16 March 2009
Do they have anything of value to contribute?
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Please. Someone. Explain this: [St. John.s city councillor Tom] Hann admitted he didn’t know enough about search and rescue to say whe...
This won’t be pretty
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Funny yes, but not pretty. Is that you, Bas? is a new blog dedicated to local talk radio callers. -srbp-
And speaking of funny, not pretty…
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nottawa’s observations on one local talk radio host. -srbp-
15 March 2009
When tragedy becomes abuse
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Not surprisingly, an e-mail showed up on Thursday ranting about what the writer – a former journalist – called “asshole questions.” It was...
Atlantic Osprey
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Background information, including a photograph of the vessel and last reported position, via marinetraffic,com . The position appears to b...
Partial list of crash victims released
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police released a partial list of names of victims of the Cougar S-92 crash. Raw video of the RCMP newser is a...
14 March 2009
“Hard landing”: Cougar S-92 crash chronology
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Adapted from The Telegram: [BP notes in square brackets.] Here's a brief timeline of the events of March 12 when Cougar Helicopte...
13 March 2009
News release: C-NLOPB REACTS TO LOSS OF COUGAR FLIGHT 491
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The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB), issued the following statement in relation to the loss of Cougar’s ...
S-92 crash links
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For those looking to keep track of the reporting on this story, here are the two best local sources: 1. CBC Newfoundland and Labrador ...
Bullshit
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Williams has been in contact with the Prime Minister and the province's federal representative Peter MacKay keeping them up to date o...
Upright in a hurricane
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This is raw video of what appears to be a sales demonstration of the S-92 for a Hungarian audience. This one is in military configuration,...
Gearbox oil pressure implicated in S-92 crash
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Cougar official Rick Burt, interviewed by CBC Radio the morning after the crash, indicated the aircraft commander declared a MAYDAY after ge...
12 March 2009
CADORS 2009A0212
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From the Transport Canada’s incident report on the Cougar S-92 crash: CHI91, S92, enroute from St. John’s (CYYT) to the Hibernia Oil Platf...
If a little knowledge…
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is a dangerous thing, reporter Brian Callahan’s comments this evening about search and rescue response to the Cougar S-92 accident is provin...
Sikorsky S-92
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1. Australia: Airworthiness directive AD/S-92/4 dated 2/2007 re: tail gearbox. 2. Australia: Airworthiness directive AD/S-92/3 dated 2/...
Government pollster misses more interesting story
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Here’s a great comment attributed to the provincial government’s pollster, CRA’s Don Mills, by voice of the cabinet minister: Mills say...
11 March 2009
Dysfunction and disconnect
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How many times does a government get to do and say completely contradictory or unfounded things before people wonder about the competence of...
10 March 2009
The poll numbers – first quarter 2009
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We’ve bashed the Corporate Research Associates polling around in these parts for quite some time. Since since it’s the only game in town,...
Baby Talk
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A news release on Tuesday from the provincial government agency that collects and analyses health statistics showed the number of live birt...
God save us…
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From mainlanders who spent a bit of time in St. John’s at some point and think they understand Newfoundland. For the most part, the only ...
09 March 2009
November 2008 Churchill Falls fire knocked out two of 11 generating units
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A fire last fall at Churchill Falls knocked out two of the 11 generating units at the facility, Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro confirmed fo...
Rex should check his video archives
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Rex Murphy, in his Globe and Mail column , Saturday, March 7: Mr. Harper is not Canada. Mr. Williams is not Newfoundland. Danny Will...
07 March 2009
Bursting bubbles everywhere
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last year the provincial government budget for 2008 forecast the provincial economy would shrink by 2.2%. Even with the economic down-turn, ...
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