Keep Calm And Live (1963)

Item title reads - Keep calm and live. New ideas to save crews of ditched helicopters. Portsmouth, Hampshire. Library footage Scimitar aeroplane coming into land on . ’Victorious’ and touching down. The arrester gear fails and plane goes on and into the sea. M/S plane in sea with pilot still in cockpit unable to get out. M/S helicopters attempting rescue, they were unsuccessful and the pilot was drowned. M/S water tank at . ’Vernon’. M/S box simulating helicopter fuselage being lowered into water. A man emerges from door in fuselage and swims to the side. C/U as he climbs up ladder from tank. M/S of the fuselage turning over in the water again, the hatch opens and pilot gets out. M/S airman in cockpit. C/U as he fits oxygen mask. M/S cockpit being closed. M/S frogman jumping into the tank. M/S of the cockpit being lowered into the tank. Underwater scenes as cockpit flips up and pilot swims out with frogman. M/S as they reach the surface, and dinghy attached to pilot inflates. FILM ID