Helicopter tragedy
THIRTEEN people are feared dead after an Airbus Super Puma H225 helicopter crashed into the sea off the Norwegian city of Bergen on Friday morning.
The helicopter was carrying oil workers from Statoil’s Gullfaks B platform, to the east of the Ninian and Brent oil fields, when the accident happened.
According to Norwegian press reports eleven bodies have been found with two are still missing.
Eyewitnesses spoke of an explosion as well as thick smoke coming from the area of the crash.
In August 2013 four oil workers died when a Super Puma EC225 plunged into the sea while approaching Sumburgh airport, in Shetland.
The EC225 Super Puma has previously been re-named the H225.
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