Search & Rescue Workhorser Retires

Jim Carriere wrote in message ...
End of An Era wrote:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/natio...r_retires20042
707.html

According to the article it had 190,000 hours on it which works out to
13 for every day in service.

I think that's a little high...... 19,000 perhaps.

Figure maintenance man hours per flight hour, it's even more
extraordinary!

But seriously, the article says the 190,000 is for the fleet
combined, which originally numbered 18 aircraft. An average of over
10,000 per airframe, considering attrition, itself is impressive.

In any event it's the end of an era for that bird and many, many, many
people owe their lives to the crews who flew out to rescue them and the
maintenance people who kept them airworthy.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/07/
27/Labrador_retires20042707.html

says:

"... in 1980, when it helped rescue 510 passengers..."
"... The mission was the largest single marine rescue in history at
that time...."


Hmmm. I seem to recall something . . . let me see .. Titanic.
And of course many others. I guess them mean something else.

Arn't the media wonderful.