The Merlin Mk4 helicopter was on a night-flying exercise with aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth
service member has died after a Merlin helicopter ditched in the English Channel while conducting a night-flying exercise with HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Ministry of Defence has said.
“Our thoughts are with the family – who have been informed – and all those affected at this sad time. A full investigation will take place. In a post on X, the wrote that is was a “huge shock to us all in the naval community and our thoughts and condolences go out to the family at this time”.HMS Queen Elizabeth conducting flying operations at sea in 2023
“I use dreadful because this is what everyone connected to the Armed Forces – news of personnel in service dying – and all my thoughts and the thoughts of those in the wider Navy I’ve been with today are with the family, the friends and the close colleagues of the one we’ve lost today.”The last accident recorded with the aircraft was a heavy landing at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan in 2010 while in Royal Air Force service.
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