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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...
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