RickB Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-20033833 Anyone know any details? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 All 19 passengers involved in the ditched helicopter are 'Safe and well' onboard the oil tanker 'Nord Nightingale'. is the only bit over and above the Beeb's coverage I have Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Para Handy Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 Super Puma helicopter 32 miles south of Shetland, off Fair Isle.Well surprise, surprise.Not the first won’t be the Last. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riskassessed Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Super Puma helicopter 32 miles south of Shetland, off Fair Isle. Well surprise, surprise. Not the first won’t be the Last. Said the aviation expert........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-20033833 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hector's House Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fionajohn Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairyian Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 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 The Fair Isle Triangle ? There is a plan to install an AIS receiver at Sumburgh Head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Para Handy Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Super Puma helicopter 32 miles south of Shetland, off Fair Isle. Well surprise, surprise. Not the first won’t be the Last. Said the aviation expert........ Super Puma helicopterpiece of french rubbish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klanky Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Super Puma helicopter 32 miles south of Shetland, off Fair Isle. Well surprise, surprise. Not the first won’t be the Last. Said the aviation expert........ Super Puma helicopterpiece of french rubbish Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stilldellin Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 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 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.jpgPetroatlantic today :-http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb479/beenister/petroatlantic1.jpgSnolda today :-http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb479/beenister/snolda2.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riskassessed Posted October 25, 2012 Report Share Posted October 25, 2012 Super Puma helicopterpiece 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorrie Posted October 25, 2012 Report Share Posted October 25, 2012 Super Puma helicopterpiece 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted October 25, 2012 Report Share Posted October 25, 2012 Super Puma helicopterpiece 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stilldellin Posted October 25, 2012 Report Share Posted October 25, 2012 ^ get a decent sized shaft, it's called a sikorsky.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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