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No one forced the deceased to ride the helicopters. It’s not “greed”. There’s obviously a market for tourist helicopter rides. We live in a scenic city. They aren’t going anywhere.
The interesting thing here is that 2 of the passengers are the company workers. Not sure if they were there to assist or just getting a free ride. From reading other posts most frequent fliers would always go in pairs so that in case crap happens. They can cut each other's harness.
In this case, the passengers were probably told that the helicopter would float then no need to panic or attempt to cut the harness.
I would never ride a helicopter that knowing my chance of survival is next to zero if it was going down. I would rather have the ability jump quickly and have option of carrying a personal floatation device or parachute neither of these options are available.
Very scary scenario these poor people died in less than a minute while the pilot got out of his seat quickly and held on.
Helicopters are far more safe than small planes as they can controlled land almost everywhere. In this case, the landing was a joke if not over water. Small plane crashes are rarely survivable because the pilot still needs a clear enough space to act as a runway.
No one forced the deceased to ride the helicopters. It’s not “greed”. There’s obviously a market for tourist helicopter rides. We live in a scenic city. They aren’t going anywhere.
It’s not about whether someone forced the tourists to ride the helicopters. Having people strap themselves in harnesses that they cannot escape definitely places both the company and the manufacturer at fault.
Not to me but flotation devices. And the pilot apparently not warning his passengers doesn’t help. If an investigation finds out error in his part caused the crash, there’s even more legal liability.
There’s nothing wrong with helicopters. There’s something very wrong with this particular company.
It’s not about whether someone forced the tourists to ride the helicopters. Having people strap themselves in harnesses that they cannot escape definitely places both the company and the manufacturer at fault.
Not to me but flotation devices. And the pilot apparently not warning his passengers doesn’t help. If an investigation finds out error in his part caused the crash, there’s even more legal liability.
There’s nothing wrong with helicopters. There’s something very wrong with this particular company.
Please take my comment in the context of the one I was responding to. I never said the company won’t be liable.
so now everybody wants to ban heli-tours, talk about knee jerk reactions. Never mind that the drone taxi market is about to take off (no pun intended). Sergi of google recently test flew his drone taxis in New Zealand. They are coming, hope the gov't isn't going to stand in their way. The key is good safety measures and corporate policies
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