Airbus Helicopters said it following additional information gathered since a North Sea helicopter crash, that it has no plans to suspend flights for the Super Puma EC225.
A senior official at CHC Helicopter has revealed there were no emergency transmissions from the doomed Super Puma in the moments before Friday’s crash.
The first victims of the North Sea helicopter crash are expected to be identified today, as a Scottish man was confirmed to have been one of the passengers.
The chief executive of Norwegian operator Statoil will visit a centre in Bergen set up for the relatives of those killed in a North Sea helicopter crash.
A helicopter with 13 people on board has crashed off the coast of Norway. Emergency services are responding to the unfolding incident which happened at around 11am. According to Bloomberg, the helicopter had been coming back from the Gullfaks B platform when the incident happened. Here’s what we know about the incident so far: