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everyone says that... the guy that complained was spending too long in the park anyway.. probably was wearing a long overcoat... maybe he found the door..or he was hunting the deer that the door fell on...
I've been deployed with GPMG's from an AW139 and it banked hard coming up to the LZ and there was no problems. my stomach chuned a bit as it swung around with the open door and all you can see is gound.
From the reports in te papers it seems as if the new "troop carrying" helicopters are becoming part of the MATS.. CULLEN, DEMPSEY ETC ETC. If this incident had not occured there would be no public knowledge about the (mis) use of the choppers..
VIP Transport was one of the roles mentioned in the RFT alright, but it would make more economic sense to use an EC135. There may not have been one available. Matt Cooper did make a good point yesterday-maybe the AW139 could have been flying in a training role anyway and it was doubled up with the job of Mats. It could have been flying around empty otherwise. We dont know.
I "heard" that there was 2 AW 139s detailed to assist "a unit" who were exercising in Fort Davis. However the Minister "requested" one at short notice to impress the hotelliers, meaning the second while still able to operate assisting the unit in Fort Davis, was not able to do so tactically. Instead it could only drop off troops, then return to Collins Barracks. When the door fell off, it was convenient then to divert this aircraft to fly the minister. So the unit training in fort davis were denied first one, then both aircraft for an exercise where they expected to use 2.
Of course, this is just a rumour.
And as Minister cullen said, we are missing the point. "5 people were almost killed!"
They were going to collect Martin Ciullen and his egos
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
I "heard" that there was 2 AW 139s detailed to assist "a unit" who were exercising in Fort Davis. However the Minister "requested" one at short notice to impress the hotelliers, meaning the second while still able to operate assisting the unit in Fort Davis, was not able to do so tactically. Instead it could only drop off troops, then return to Collins Barracks. When the door fell off, it was convenient then to divert this aircraft to fly the minister. So the unit training in fort davis were denied first one, then both aircraft for an exercise where they expected to use 2.
Of course, this is just a rumour.
And as Minister cullen said, we are missing the point. "5 people were almost killed!"
what a ****wit.
It fits with my post no. 40
"Fellow-soldiers of the Irish Republican Army, I have just received a communication from Commandant Pearse calling on us to surrender and you will agree with me that this is the hardest task we have been called upon to perform during this eventful week, but we came into this fight for Irish Independence in obedience to the commands of our higher officers and now in obedience to their wishes we must surrender. I know you would, like myself, prefer to be with our comrades who have already fallen in the fight - we, too, should rather die in this glorious struggle than submit to the enemy." Volunteer Captain Patrick Holahan to 58 of his men at North Brunswick Street, the last group of the Four Courts Garrison to surrender, Sunday 30 April 1916.
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everyone says that... the guy that complained was spending too long in the park anyway.. probably was wearing a long overcoat... maybe he found the door..or he was hunting the deer that the door fell on...
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