Video: Footage from the scene of North Sea helicopter crash
Footage has emerged from the scene of a helicopter crash off the coast of Norway.
Footage has emerged from the scene of a helicopter crash off the coast of Norway.
Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said the death of 13 workers on a North Sea flight was a "sad day" for the oil and gas industry.
The wife of an offshore worker has spoken of the moment she had a “gut feeling” her husband had been involved in a North Sea helicopter crash.
Investigators have revealed it took just 30 seconds for a routine helicopter flight to turn into a tragic disaster.
The leader of the Step Change in Safety group said the lessons from the Sumburgh crash were not just the North Sea’s to learn.
Training records for the co-pilot of the fatal Sumburgh crash suggested he had experienced some difficulties during a course with "managing the workload and becoming overloaded" at times.
Oil veteran Aubrey McClendon died in a one-car crash a day after he was charged with conspiring to rig bids for oil leases.
A cargo plane has crashed near the international airport in the South Sudanese capital of Juba, killing at least 23 people. Some of the victims were children, according to an Associated Press reporter near the scene, who said wreckage was strewn over the east side of the River Nile.
Nigeria’s Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has recovered the flight data recorder from a helicopter which crashed on the way from an oil platform. The incident earlier this month left six people dead and others injured after the Sikorsky 76 Bristow helicopter crashed into a lagoon. The aircraft had been carrying 10 passengers and 2 crew when the incident happened.
Four people have been killed and another two workers are also suspected to have been fatally injured in a helicopter crash. The incident happened as a Bristow helicopter flew back from an oil rig in Nigeria.
Scotland's top law officer will have to wait until the end of the year to find out if prosecutors can get early access to the black box from a doomed helicopter. Four oil workers died when the Super Puma AS332-L2 aircraft plunged into the sea off Shetland in August 2013. Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland launched a legal challenge at the Court of Session earlier this year to try to speed up an investigation into the tragedy.