Accidents
Bad Night At Black Rock
The 2017 crash of an Irish S-92 highlights the hazards of night-time SAR operations.

A helicopter was lost and four people died trying to save a fisherman’s piece of thumb.

The accident investigation that followed was one of the most thorough and painstaking in Irish and perhaps even European aviation. It touched on virtually every aspect of related technology, training, human and survival factors, navigation, operations, and regulation related to helicopter search and rescue (SAR) and spawned 42 separate safety recommendations. 

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