Months Before Deadly Crash, Helicopter Pilots Warned of Safety Issues

Re:Months Before Deadly Crash, Helicopter Pilots Warned of S... by ndespres on Saturday April 07, 2018 @11:12PM (#16784425)

Not spring clip, the NTSB report says they were the screw type. Even so, the article states that it would have been difficult for a passenger to reach their own clip, and even if they had, would be difficult to undo it. They even provided "seatbelt cutters" to passengers to deal with this situation which also didn't work (according to the article).

So many failures happening here.

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Re:Months Before Deadly Crash, Helicopter Pilots Warned of S... by cyberferret on Saturday April 07, 2018 @11:15PM (#16784431)

Thanks for the clarification. Yes, screw type carabiners would have been infinitely harder to try and release quickly. I feel for those poor unfortunate passengers.

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