Bell214 Posted August 20, 2006 Report Posted August 20, 2006 Hey, does anybody know something about East-West helicopters? Where is the Mainbase? Internett adress? They had a Bell 214B, C-GEWT, and I don´t have a picture of this machine in my collection. Every Informations are very welcomed... Thank you and have a nice day. Bell214 Quote
FREDDIE Posted August 20, 2006 Report Posted August 20, 2006 Eastwest is located in Salmon Arm the Aircraft is XNI Quote
PedalJam Posted August 21, 2006 Report Posted August 21, 2006 Bell214 EWT was distroyed in a very tragic accident in 99 Fly Safe Quote
justfly Posted August 21, 2006 Report Posted August 21, 2006 Bell214 EWT was distroyed in a very tragic accident in 99 Fly Safe links: Communiqués (summary) Report Number A99P0075 Quote
hired-gun12 Posted August 22, 2006 Report Posted August 22, 2006 Hi, I´m looking for a picture of this Bell 214, C-GEWT. The Machine was owned by East-West and crashed a few years ago. I hust have the crash picture in my 214 collection. It would be great, if someone could help me... Have a god day, cheers Bell214 (copied from "just conversation") I hope that I am misinterpreting your intentions. I knew the engineer who lost his life in this crash and I'm sure many others on this site knew people as well. I don't feel this is the place to be looking for "crash pictures" If I am mistaken then I apologize. hg12 Quote
Helilog56 Posted August 22, 2006 Report Posted August 22, 2006 Two of the four on board were very, very close friends.....out of respect as hg12 pointed out, i also feel it would be inappropriate to forward or post such a picture or pictures. Quote
Bell214 Posted August 22, 2006 Author Report Posted August 22, 2006 I hope that I am misinterpreting your intentions. I knew the engineer who lost his life in this crash and I'm sure many others on this site knew people as well. I don't feel this is the place to be looking for "crash pictures" If I am mistaken then I apologize. hg12 Sorry, I´m not looking for Crash pictures or something like that. I didn´t know this machine and I didn´t know something about the crash. It´s a sad story and I am sorry about this post. Quote
transientorque2 Posted August 22, 2006 Report Posted August 22, 2006 I hope that I am misinterpreting your intentions. I knew the engineer who lost his life in this crash and I'm sure many others on this site knew people as well. I don't feel this is the place to be looking for "crash pictures" If I am mistaken then I apologize. hg12 Sorry, I´m not looking for Crash pictures or something like that. I didn´t know this machine and I didn´t know something about the crash. It´s a sad story and I am sorry about this post. I thonk that he is looking for pics of the A/C before the event. Quote
transquebecniece Posted August 22, 2006 Report Posted August 22, 2006 I must confess that I felt a li'l pang of guilt when I read this thread as I, too, have been looking for a picture of a helicopter (C-GXJR) in its happier days, pre-incident. I'm the opposite of Bell214; I already have the crash picture, as horrifically sad as it is. Obviously, these machines log many flight hours, with many different pilots and crews, through the years...providing a slight "disconnect," or perhaps even a "buffer," if you will—between the crews who may have perished in tragic accidents in specific helicopters—and those who may have had happier memories of the machines and the jobs they performed in/with them in the past, to those looking for helicopter images for personal reasons. (I've read that twice now; I think it makes sense.) No one wants crash pictures posted, but we must consider that such requests might have honest and sincere intentions behind them. I, too, hope not to offend anyone with this post; had to give my guilt voice. That is all. -TQN Quote
hired-gun12 Posted August 22, 2006 Report Posted August 22, 2006 I agree with you 100% TQN, and after reading yours and Bell214's reply I felt I should clarify my position as well. I wasn't attempting to pin any unintended label upon anyone. Only that the post seemed a little ambiguous. I read it on "just conversation" a few days ago and initially decided to ignore it. Only after reading it again in Heli Ops did I choose to reply to it, and it wasn't done lightly, I weighed it out for an afternoon. I wasn't sure of what Bell 214 wanted and only needed to be sure that no disrespect was intended, if only for my own personal reasons. Again, no nastiness inferred or intented. Fly Safe, HG12 Quote
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