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Irish SAR Air Accidents (1003 words) |
 | In the course of an SAR operation to lift a casualty from sea cliffs near Waterford, a thermal blanket was lifted by the rotor downwash and became briefly entangled in the helicopters rotors, causing a temporary loss of lift, which resulted in uncontrolled loss of altitude. |
| The aircraft commander observed this, but owing to the critical phase of the approach with the winchman on the cable, avoiding action by manoeuvring the aircraft was not possible. |
| The aircraft was moved away from the cliff face and the winch operator commenced winching-in the winchman. |
| Irish Air Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1119 words) |
| Irish Air Corps (Aer Chór na hÉireann) provides the air defence function of Oglaigh na hÉireann (the Irish Defence Forces), in support of the Army and Naval Service, together with such other roles as may be assigned by the Government (e.g. |
| The origin of the Air Corps goes back to the Anglo-Irish Treaty talks of 1921, when a Martinsyde Type A Mark II biplane was purchased and put on 24-hour standby at Croydon airport in order to allow Michael Collins to escape back to Ireland if the talks failed. |
| The Pilatus aircraft were the first Air Corps aircraft to break Air Corps tradition when the GOC (General Officer Commanding - a Brigadier General) decided to have the Pilatus tail numbers in the 260 series, when the most recent aircraft to be purchased (the Bombardier Learjet 45) had the tail number 258. |
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