Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would not say on Tuesday whether he had been told that were witnesses to the crash, but suggested the issue was being handled appropriately. The helicopter also would have been in radio contact with the warship's combat operation's centre, well forward of the flight deck, as it returned from a routine maritime surveillance exercise involving other NATO warships.Ġ:31 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says all protocols were followed by the military following the CH-148 Cyclone helicopter that crashed last week in the Ionian Sea off Greece. "He would have been the person talking to the aircraft ahead of the recovery," said McWha. The landing officer would have been in radio communication with the helicopter during those fateful last moments, and would have had an unobstructed view of its approach. The most important person present would have been the landing signals officer, who sits in a glass tower to the one side of the flight deck. It would have been a busy flight deck, with aircraft maintainers, aircraft handlers and perhaps even a spare aircrew on hand. "Flying stations are normally called 15 minutes ahead of time, so everybody necessary for the recovery be in the right places and that certain valves are turned on and turned off," said former colonel Larry McWha, who commanded 423 Squadron when it flew the CH-124 Sea Kings the Cyclone choppers recently replaced. (Department of National Defence)Īt the time, according to one former squadron commander, the frigate would have been "closed up at flight stations" and ready to receive the aircraft well ahead of its scheduled touchdown at 7:00 p.m. The victims of the chopper crash (clockwise from top left): Capt.
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