After the plane crash in the French Alps now have the Swedish Armed Forces has offered help with experiences from the strenuous effort in connection with the plane crash in the Kebnekaise three years ago.
When it comes to efforts to salvage the wreckage and remains the similarities are striking, says Captain Carl-Johan Olofsson, who led the salvage operation in Kebnekaise.
– The similarities are the crash site and the is the total demolished aircraft. There is not much left of the aircraft or the people who were on board. The terrain is very similar, in Sweden we had snow and glaciers, here it is more rocks and scree, he said.
It was in March 2012 as a Norwegian military plane crashed right into in one of the rock walls in the Kebnekaise. All five servicemen aboard the plane died, and Army Ranger Battalion then pulled off the strenuous efforts to salvage the wreckage and remains in the difficult terrain. Carl-Johan Olofsson expected then to be able to find a reasonably intact aircraft.
– When we got up on the spot, it was a complete shock. There was nothing left, just a tiny little pieces. It is psychologically stressful. Among crash parts is that the mixed human parts as well, both large and small parts. The terrible with the accident in France is that there are 150 people in the Kebnekaise were five people, it’s probably so tragically just that. But one can imagine how the accident area looks with the remains and aircraft parts.
Can not understand how strenuous work unless you have been involved, says Carl-Johan Olofsson who want to give all credit to their French colleagues. After each working day at the Kebnekaise he saw that the soldiers had to talk to each other about what they had seen.
– Then when we come home to the battalion again we have had conference calls, and it has found particular needs to talk with a psychologist, they have the potential existed as well.
In France, now all remains secured, but bärgandet of wreckage continues. Jaeger Battalion has now handed over a report of their experiences to the embassy in Paris. They can mainly teach their own methods for helicopter pilots and ground staff can work effectively with fixed-mounted baskets in dangerous terrain.
– Then there was the difficult terrain in which we dared not go in with ground troops because of the risk of subsidence from above . Then we have by helicopter used the us of long sticks which we have taped ice axes so we have been able to rake down the breakdown parts to a safer place to then lift them out.
If their help is needed in France, it is they are ready to go.
– We are ready. If the request is so, we willing to help this we can do. It is the things in the report, but the best way to share experiences is to serve it on the spot mouth to mouth, says Carl-Johan Olofsson on hunting battalion.
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