Analysis of flight data from fatal Royal Navy Merlin helicopter crash
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Steffan Watkins
Summary
Analysis of unclassified Mode-S/MLAT flight data transmitted by Royal Navy Merlin HC.4 ZJ131 (call sign SWORD01) during a fatal crash on June 3. The article provides a technical backgrounder on how to analyze publicly available flight tracking data to reconstruct the timeline of the accident, noting that British news media has not yet published this information. It covers the helicopter's flight path, altitude changes, and speed data leading up to the crash that killed Lt Cdr Chris Gayson and Lt Lily-Mae Fisher.
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bskyAnalysis of flight data from fatal Royal Navy Merlin helicopter crashsteffanwatkins.medium.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledThere's a significant amount of unclassified publicly available information about the tragic loss of Royal Navy Merlin HC.4 ZJ131 call sign SWORD01 that hasn't been published by the British news media yet
I don't know if all journalists are up on how to look up and analyze flight data, so I wrote a backgrounder.
Analyzing June 3 Mode-S/MLAT data from Royal Navy Merlin HC.4 'SWORD01'
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