Darren Hughes Posted March 29, 2010 Report Share Posted March 29, 2010 http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/MI147768/ Glad to hear both instructor and student are ok. Not too often you hear of a full blown engine failure in the robbies. Strange that they're showing a ship on the video with no floats. I thought all the Boatpix ships had big permanent floats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kodoz Posted March 30, 2010 Report Share Posted March 30, 2010 http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/MI147768/ Glad to hear both instructor and student are ok. Not too often you hear of a full blown engine failure in the robbies. Strange that they're showing a ship on the video with no floats. I thought all the Boatpix ships had big permanent floats. Yeah, unofficial word is that it was a loss of power/power failure. Important part was both pilots got out fine...looks like one of them even managed to save his Bose. BoatPix does have a bunch of Mariners (with detachable floats), but I don't think you can get a new Mariner anymore. This one wasn't a Mariner. Seas were also pretty rough at the time: read one report that said 7-ft swells. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotormandan Posted March 30, 2010 Report Share Posted March 30, 2010 2.5 miles off shore without floats...??? Seems like not the best idea for any operation. I also thought that all of Boatpix's ship had float since they mainly fly over water. I don't think they would've helped too much in 7' swells out there. Glad to hear they pulled it off. Everything must've been smooth despite the eng failure part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RkyMtnHI Posted March 30, 2010 Report Share Posted March 30, 2010 hmmmmm interested in getting more information... dp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justfly Posted March 30, 2010 Report Share Posted March 30, 2010 interested in getting more information...http://www.faa.gov/data_research/accident_...ia/K_0329_N.txt ********************************************************************************** Report created 3/29/2010 Record 1 ********************************************************************************** IDENTIFICATION Regis#: 72377 Make/Model: R22 Description: R-22 Date: 03/28/2010 Time: 1715 Event Type: Incident Highest Injury: None Mid Air: N Missing: N Damage: Unknown LOCATION City: MIAMI BEACH State: FL Country: US DESCRIPTION N72377, A ROBINSON R22 ROTORCRAFT, FORCE LANDED IN THE OCEAN, NEAR MIAMI BEACH, FL INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0 # Crew: 2 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: # Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: # Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: WEATHER: 1653Z 120013 10SM BKN019 OVC033 26/21 A3001 OTHER DATA Activity: Unknown Phase: Unknown Operation: OTHER FAA FSDO: SOUTH FLORIDA, FL (SO19) Entry date: 03/29/2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planetarian Posted April 9, 2010 Report Share Posted April 9, 2010 Very glad they both made it out safely! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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