The new plane will be to search on the sailors cemeteryVolunteer Crews of the Channel Islands Air Search from the air, British and French Maritime search and rescue support. Now you can help with a new Britten-Norman Islander. From the air you don't see what the crews of the rescue ships as quickly. A volunteer team from the Channel Islands Air Search CIAS is based in Guernsey is available 24 hours a day in case of emergency, the sea to search. 10,000 square kilometers of the channel Islands, you are on the go. As in January 2019, a Piper Malibu with the professional football player Emiliano Sala on Board disappeared, reached the Channel Islands Air Search, not 40 minutes later, the alleged crash site. You could not but help also. However, the Search and rescue service in the channel Islands, lost in an accident at the end of 2013 to be a single plane. He had to get along since then, with a Replacement aircraft. Now the Channel Islands Air Search has taken a new aircraft in receipt of a BN2B-20 Islander of the British manufacturer Britten-Norman, powered by two piston engines. Specialised equipment on BoardChannel Islands Air Search Britten-Norman have equipped the machine together for Search - and-rescue missions. So are installed in the nose, for example, infrared sensors and marine radar. A high-performance camera also sends real-time images and data to the consoles and screens in the Interior of the aircraft. French and British authorities, including the coast guard, able to Channel Islands Air Searchs services. The sea around the 14 channel Islands in the English channel, is due to the strong tides, changeable weather and the reefs are treacherous. "It is a sailor's Paradise, but also potentially a sailors graveyard", so to Channel Islands Air Search on the area of application. In the above image gallery, you can see the new pilot of the Channel Islands Air Search from the inside. |