Courageous Female pilot save lives

FIVE days after a Bristow helicopter ditched
in the Atlantic Ocean, attention is now
shifting to the heroic deed of Captain
Abimbola Jayeola, the Nigerian lady pilot
who saved the day.
Ms. Jayeola was in charge of the controlled
water landing — near Lagos — of the
Bristow chopper 5N-BQJ, an incident that
could have recorded a second crash of
Bristow chopper in barely six months. The
first incident was a Sikosky S76 C+
helicopter crash in Oworonshoki on a
Wednesday in August last year, killing at
least six of the 12 passengers, including the
pilot.
Thanks to Captain Jayeola, another ghastly
‘Wednesday incident’ (February 3, 2016),
involving yet another Silkorsky chopper
made by a United States’ manufacturer, was
averted as the Nigerian female pilot ditched
in the Atlantic Ocean, ‘steered out of
trouble’ and saved the lives of other 12
people who were mostly Exxon Mobil staff..
A distress message was sent shortly after
10.00a.m. and the helicopter ditched in the
Atlantic Ocean 20 minutes later. Ten
minutes later, MV-DIJAMA, a vessel owned
by L.A.T.C Marine Ltd, a Nigeria company,
was alerted to the accident. It got to the
scene at about 11.50a.m. and rescued all
passengers.