NORWEGIAN investigators have said that a helicopter crash which killed a Scottish man and 10 other passengers and two crew members was “almost certainly” caused by a technical fault.
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The EC225 Super Puma built by Airbus Helicopters crashed Friday on a small island off Bergen, en route from a North Sea oil platform. 7 of these have been named: Arild Fossedal and Odd Geir Turøy (Aker Solutions), Michele Vimercati (CHC), Iain Stuart, Behnam Ahmadi and Otto Mikal Vasstveit (Halliburton) and Kjetil Wathne (Karsten Moholt AS).
All UK commercial passenger flights using the Airbus EC225LP – or Super Puma – model have been grounded by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) following the accident. The quality of the data from the flight and cockpit recorders that were sent to Britain for analysis was good, investigators said. “We don’t think it was due to human misinterpretations”, said Kaare Halvorsen, the director of the board’s aviation department.
Airbus said it saw no need to suspend flights with the helicopter model, adding that its experts have conducted on- site inspections of the crashed helicopter parts, leading them to conclude there was no safety-of-flight risk for the fleet. “The feedback I’ve gotten is that “we can’t have these helicopters” and that ‘there have been too many accidents to trust it”, Hilde-Marit Rysst from the union SAFE said.
On Friday, Airbus Helicopters recommended that all commercial flights be suspended following the crash, in which 13 people died.
“Iain was a loving husband and devoted father to his two children and as a family we are heartbroken”.
“We will remain in contact with the Foreign Commonwealth Office, who are liaising with Police Scotland to offer help and support to the family at this sad time”. “We will stand together as one united industry, and do everything in our power to take care of the affected families”, Sætre says. They are a lovely family – it’s an absolute tragedy.
Statoil on Monday released the names of the individuals on board the helicopter when it crashed.
Norway TV2 channel aired a footage said to show what seems to be a helicopter rotor spiraling down minutes before the helicopter crashed. The ages of the victims ranged from 32 and 60 and many had worked for a variety of companies involved with the oil industry.
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Iain Stuart: Killed in Norway helicopter crash.
