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Today's ditching, involving a Super Puma EC 225, is the fourth serious incident involving this type of helicopter in the North Sea in the past four years.

 

In May all 14 people on board a Super Puma EC 225 were rescued when their helicopter came down around 30 miles off the coast of Aberdeen during a flight to an oil rig.

 

In April 2009, disaster struck a different model of the Super Puma aircraft, an older AS 332 L2. It was returning from BP's Miller oil platform when it suffered a catastrophic gearbox failure and crashed off Peterhead, killing all 16 people on board: two pilots and 14 oil workers.

 

In February 2009, a Super Puma EC 225 ditched in fog a short distance from a BP oil platform in the ETAP field, 125 miles (200km) east of Aberdeen. All 18 people on board survived. Crew error and a faulty alert system were blamed.

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i used to fly offshore in choppers and would still do the pilots are great and as with everything mechanical things go wrong the weather was on the side of the gods and the pilot was first class thank god everyone was ok with the amount of traffic in the north sea unfortunatly there will always accidents

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According to AIS Olympic Zeus has arrived on site for the recovery, and Romeo Charlie is circling overhead. Strangely the standby tug Herakles (which took the ditched chopper in tow) went off the AIS after it left Orkney. It's odd how some vessels seem to go into a "black hole" around Fair Isle :shock:

The Fair Isle Triangle ?

 

There is a plan to install an AIS receiver at Sumburgh Head.

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According to AIS Olympic Zeus has arrived on site for the recovery, and Romeo Charlie is circling overhead. Strangely the standby tug Herakles (which took the ditched chopper in tow) went off the AIS after it left Orkney. It's odd how some vessels seem to go into a "black hole" around Fair Isle :shock:

The Fair Isle Triangle ?

 

There is a plan to install an AIS receiver at Sumburgh Head.

 

Fair Isle Triangle no longer exists, all sorted :-

Olympic Zeus today :-

http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb479/beenister/olympiczeus1.jpg

Petroatlantic today :-

http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb479/beenister/petroatlantic1.jpg

Snolda today :-

http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb479/beenister/snolda2.jpg

:wink: :wink:

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Super Puma helicopter

piece of french rubbish

 

Aberdeen Airport handles more than 37,000 rotary wing movements carrying around 468,000 passengers annually. Thats just Aberdeen....Add to that the rest of the Super Puma Fleet around the worlds oilfields and military and with the greatest of respect to those who have been killed or injured in this type of helicopter, the relatively small number of incidents that occur makes it quite amazing.

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Super Puma helicopter

piece of french rubbish

 

Aberdeen Airport handles more than 37,000 rotary wing movements carrying around 468,000 passengers annually. Thats just Aberdeen....Add to that the rest of the Super Puma Fleet around the worlds oilfields and military and with the greatest of respect to those who have been killed or injured in this type of helicopter, the relatively small number of incidents that occur makes it quite amazing.

 

You can't go round making sensible comments like that, Ra. :wink:

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Super Puma helicopter

piece of french rubbish

 

Aberdeen Airport handles more than 37,000 rotary wing movements carrying around 468,000 passengers annually. Thats just Aberdeen....Add to that the rest of the Super Puma Fleet around the worlds oilfields and military and with the greatest of respect to those who have been killed or injured in this type of helicopter, the relatively small number of incidents that occur makes it quite amazing.

 

Chinook.

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