With loss of helicopters to budget cuts, race to fallen airmen took 47 minutes.
The cheap pieces-of-junk submarines was one example. This Snowbird accident is another. There have been countless others. Helicopters literally dropping out of the sky…. and more.
Talk about creating a budget surplus on the back of citizens. Dead citizens, as it turns out. Liberals get away with allowing service men to die in order to deceive voters and make themselves look like good managers of taxpayers’ money. Vote Liberal!
[…] But military experts said it might have been much worse and called the decision to cut rescue helicopters from the Moose Jaw base a “shocking” case of government cuts to the defence budget putting pilots’ lives at risk.
“A base rescue flight is an absolute necessity for an operation like Moose Jaw,” said Lieutenant Colonel Laurie Hawn, a former fighter pilot now retired from the military.
“It didn’t cause any problems in this case, but what if Mallet had been injured? Forty-seven minutes is plenty of time to die.”
Until the mid-1990s, a flight of three military helicopters was on standby for emergency rescue duties at CFB Moose Jaw, the main jet training centre for hundreds of Canadian Forces pilot trainees each year.
The rescue helicopters were discontinued as a cost-saving measure.
“That decision was pure dollars. They had to save a few bucks,” said Lt.-Col. Hawn. “And it should not have happened.”
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