2016 Turøy helicopter crash
A Eurocopter EC225LP Super Puma, similar to the one that crashed
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| Accident summary | |
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| Date | 29 April 2016 |
| Summary | Investigation results pending, rotor failure reported |
| Site | Skitholmen, Øygarden, Hordaland, Norway 60°27′8″N 4°55′49″E / 60.45222°N 4.93028°ECoordinates: 60°27′8″N 4°55′49″E / 60.45222°N 4.93028°E |
| Passengers | 11 |
| Crew | 2 |
| Fatalities | 13 (all) |
| Aircraft type | Eurocopter EC225LP Super Puma |
| Operator | CHC Helikopter Service |
| Registration | LN-OJF |
| Flight origin | Flesland Airport, Bergen, Norway |
| Stopover | Gullfaks B platform, North Sea |
| Destination | Flesland Airport, Bergen, Norway |
On 29 April 2016, a CHC Helikopter Service Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma helicopter, carrying oil workers from the Gullfaks B platform in the North Sea, crashed near Turøy, a Norwegian coastal island 36 kilometres (22 mi) from the city of Bergen. Several witnesses reported initially seeing nothing untoward with the helicopter flying steadily, before the sound suddenly changed and it started to sway. A moment later its main rotor assembly detached from the aircraft and the fuselage plummeted to the ground and exploded into flames. All thirteen crew and passengers died in the crash.
The accident aircraft was an EC225LP Super Puma helicopter, manufactured by Eurocopter (now named Airbus Helicopters), registration LN-OJF.
At 10:05 local time (UTC+2), HKS241 took off from Bergen's Flesland Airport, five minutes behind schedule. It arrived at the Gullfaks B platform on time and departed at 11:16, carrying two pilots and eleven passengers, employees and subcontractors of Norwegian oil company Statoil. It was scheduled to land back at Flesland Airport at 12:08.
At 11:53, as the helicopter approached Sotra off the coast of Bergen, several witnesses observed the flight, stating that nothing was out of the ordinary until the sound suddenly changed and the helicopter started to sway. Moments later the main rotor assembly of the helicopter detached, causing a sudden drop in speed and altitude, as confirmed by flight telemetry. With all control lost, it crashed on the islet of Skitholmen between the islands of Turøy and Toftøy at 11:54:35 local time and exploded on impact. Most of the wreckage then slid off the islet into the sea. A video recording of the detached main rotors spinning to earth was made shortly afterwards. The rotor came to rest several hundred metres away on the island of Toftøy. According to flight tracking data, the time between the detachment of the rotor and the crash itself was only eleven seconds, with the helicopter diving 640 metres (2,100 ft) in that time.
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