Anatomy of a plane crash part 3

Anatomy of a plane crash part 3
Rapport Issue

16

Publication Date

June 28th 2009

Authors

Neil Almond

Have you ever watched someone being airlifted into a helicopter on telly? It looks fun doesn’t it? Almost something you’d line up to try. Well maybe it’s just a question of context, but after crashing into the ocean in a light aircraft (as reported in the last two editions of this fine magazine) and treading water for close to an hour praying for rescue, the experience was somewhat different. I never realised, for instance, how difficult it is to breathe under a chopper - it almost feels like the air is being sucked out of your lungs. Nor had I considered that the spray would be quite so painful - imagine being in a jet wash with someone squirting the...

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